AI War Beta 6.002 "Better Than A Stick In The Eye" Released!

[keith.lamothe]

You can stop buffing now. YOU CAN STOP BUFFING NOW!

Now that I have confronted AI HWs without any superweapons except a champion, I think this applies. The pain...
I just beat my head against the impenetrable steel wall of the Homeworlds; It was a nightmare even with an excellent set of tools. And a new eye would eliminate most of them. Fortunately, even steel walls are not immune to warheads.

(I know I am asking for it, given the difficulty, but still. *shudder*)

I think I will cower behind the Imperial Spire fleet next game.

The champion causes the presence of a nemesis fleet, though, which does substantially impact the HW assaults.

But yea, in general I don't have any further "big plans" for buffing homeworlds.  There are a few specific units that have had a bit too big an impact on them in the past (Spirecraft Penetrator and Hive Golem come to mind) but I think the overall "oomph" of them is in a decent range.  At least a range where massive buffs don't seem called for anymore.

[Faulty Logic]

The champion causes the presence of a nemesis fleet, though, which does substantially impact the HW assaults.

I would say something more along the lines of them being a veritable swarm of locusts, which will haunt my nightmares, but that is just me.
And, once again, I suggested them .

But yea, in general I don't have any further "big plans" for buffing homeworlds.

I am relieved.

Spirecraft Penetrator and Hive Golem come to mind

Agreed on the penetrator, but the hive is shut down by any gravity fleetship, a grav post, a wrath lance, an eye,  or some other normal posts/fleetships. And besides, it is a Golem, meaning you have suffered in some way to acquire it.

[keith.lamothe]

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