Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Defending Your Base With Dreadnoughts

Base defense is one of the keys of a successful time with Astro Empires. If you fail to properly maintain your base and its protection, you can end up with a world of hurt. So, as your economy and technology gets higher and higher, you should focus on different strategies for ultimate protection.

When you finally start getting planetary rings for defense on your base, your defending strategy should change from having a large stack of fighters to having one dreadnought per 2 upgrades of planetary rings. You're probably wondering why this is effective and I'll tell you why:

There are many ways to make a profit from combat in Astro Empires and especially combat over astros. A player has 2 options available, 1 option is kill the defending fleet, leave the base unpillaged, and pillage the trade routes, the second option is kill the fleet, kill the base, and finally pillage the trades. Because of fleet profit strategy, you should be concerned about not leaving enough fleet over your base that you can be profited from. The dreadnought strategy fixes that dilema.

Dreadnoughts cannot be effectively shield raped by any type of ship nor can it be effectively dropped by heavy bombers when it's over base defenses. So, if a player was hitting your fleet for profit, it is near impossible to do so. A player, if they're planning on hitting your fleet, will end up spending more credits than they meant to and will discover that your base is unprofitable.

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