Author Topic: Can we retire the term "Whipping Boy"?  (Read 12551 times)

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Re: Can we retire the term "Whipping Boy"?
« Reply #15 on: January 02, 2017, 11:40:27 am »
I expect WBs will still be useful even with per-planet energy, because sometimes AI forces are just too strong and are likely to cause a lot of collateral damage on whatever planet they target most.  The point of the WB is that you care not-a-bit about the collateral damage on it, whereas on other defended planets you kinda want to keep the collateral damage to a minimum usually, heh.

I think we'll see a lot more defense-in-depth, which I'm really excited about.  And that may reduce the frequency of WBs and certain other tactics.  But I think they're still something that is likely to be inevitable when there's a lot of "splash damage" from an AI wave that you want to have make a mess somewhere you don't care about.
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Re: Can we retire the term "Whipping Boy"?
« Reply #16 on: January 02, 2017, 06:49:25 pm »
WB will probably still exist in some form, even if it's only "the planet the AI has to go through before it gets to the one with the Ion Cannon". Because I sure don't want the one with the Ion Cannon to be the front line target.