How to deal with super fortresses?

[Kzzaman]

I decided to play a game against fortress baron... I took three planets and the fourth had a mark I and III fortress along with a super fortress and an ion cannon. I took out supply and then used assault transports to attack it over and over until it was finally destroyed. Thing is, the very next planet has one too, and also a mark V fab which I want to capture. I could use a sabotage hack, or capture the planet then hit it with snipers though it might destroy the fab or I can just go back to pelting it, which I really don't want to do Are there any better ways to knock out a super fortress?

[Captain Jack]

Artillery Golems. 

Oh, Assault Transports/Bombers might be able to do it too, because I think SuperFortresses still have the penalties to attacking Polycrystal and Scout armors.

[Radiant Phoenix]

The last time I ran into a Super Fortress, I rammed my Spire Shadow Battleship at it about a half-dozen times until it died.

Yes, it does have the 1/100 multiplier vs Polycrystal and 1/20 vs scout, so bombers and transports probably work too.

[Toranth]

If you want to use Sniper turrets, you don't need to capture the planet - as long as you have supply (are adjacent to a system you control), you turrets will shoot.  You use a Mobile Builder to create these turret 'beachheads'.

But you've basically hit the list of methods to deal with SuperFortresses:
Hack it
Snipe it (sniper or spider turrets are best)
Swarm it (bombers and Assault Transports)
Ignore it

[Red.Queen]

<whispers> Nuke it.

If it doesn't have supply, it can't shoot you.  Purely decorative then.

Superforts are magical.

[Coppermantis]

Been a while since I've played, but don't Superfortresses work without supply?

[Red.Queen]

Apparently yes.  All other forts require it, except this one.  That's strange. 

[Coppermantis]

Apparently yes.  All other forts require it, except this one.  That's strange. 

Well, it is super.

[Captain Jack]

Zenith Inside(tm). It keeps going and going and going and going... 

[Kzzaman]

Most of these thing are in expansions, which I don't have yet though if I can build sniper turrets or something to kill it without building my own station that would be great- means i can capture the fabricator too. I haven't tried warheads, I know nukes don't do anything (thanks red queen) but are there others? anyway thanks for the help 

[Radiant Phoenix]

The other types of warheads are:

• Lightning (cheap, squishy, anti-small-stuff)
• Armored (expensive, tough, sneaky, anti-big-stuff)
• EMP (won't work here)
• Tachyon (irrelevant here)

I would look into the Armored Warheads, after taking out the tachyon sentinels.

Build a Missile Silo (going just that far is pretty safe), then compare the mouseover info to the Superfortress's stats. Find the cheapest Armored Warhead that will do the job.

[TheVampire100]

Well, hacking would be for me the most obvious solution. Taking the fortress down in one throw. Build a sabotage hacker, if the target is not the super fortress, scrap it and build a new one.
OR why you don't just hack the fabricator to begin with? If there is another way around (other planets), you can skip it and still get the fabricator. Easy as that.

[Red.Queen]

Sabotage hacking is godly.  So cheap a price, so lazy efficient to use.  It could be renamed to "Delete Annoyance".  I hack virtually every high-tier Fort that I can't ignore, unless it's on a world I was already planning on nuking for some reason.

Random pointless trivia -- Fortresses in the game code are referred to as FlyingFortresses.  Kind of amusing.  (Hacking makes them crash and that's why they go away?)

[Kzzaman]

yeah the armoured warhead sounds good but I didn't think nukes worked on fortresses

[Kahuna]

Beachhead it woth Mark >= II Needler Turrets and HBCs.