Just had a game, it ended up with me controlling the main planet in a ffa, 2 people had escaped to moons earlier on. At first I tried a normal landing, sent over some orbital fabricators to build a teleporter, got one up some troops out, then the bombers came. Having a huge eco at this point, I thought why not I try to build laser sats, I had a radar sat, I could see his commander. He started building umbrellas, for a while there was a umbrella versus sat laser war. I used anchors as shields then used the sats to take out the umbrellas. On this particular moon he happened to make am istake his commander walked out into the open, so he ended up dying. This is where an idea popped into my head. The other moon I scouted, it had lots of bombers, lots of umbrellas, lots of anti nukes. I sent some fabs and the anchors stuff I had left over from the other moon to it. I just watched till they arrived. Sure I've noticed this a lot, but it wasn't till I saw it till I realised something. The units pop into the orbital layer, this moment the radar sat poped right near the enemy commander, started getting shot down by an anchor. End result was, I build 10 laser sats or there abouts. Sent them directly at the spot I knew where the commander was before they traveled to the moon. SO when they arrive they are right on top of him. It worked, even as they started to get shot at, I quickly ordered them to attack, in half a second KAboom. Granted if they move the commander it has less chance of succeeding, but as long as u know where he is or close to, u usually have enough time to kill him before they can do anything about it, even if they have umbrellas, next time I think I bring anchors with me as umbrella distractions. Has anyone else figured this out as a possible strategy? Simply arrive and blast them.
The laser sats for me, just take, like FAR too long to build, they are really difficult to build. Can't say Im a fan of them really, as they seem to be very effective against enemy umbrellas as sniper units. :/
Not particularly fun to end games like this in my opinion. I think Laser Sats should send down a continuous low-damage beam rather than sniping (same for Umbrellas), and we should get an Orbital Teleporter for Air units so we can chuck transports/nukes/air onto a distant world.
Id prefer the ability to set up automated one shot Astraus, and then link my land factroys to them for a stream of rocket propelled units.
how about a massive missile which can load lots of units inside, effectively crashes into the planet, releasing all of those units at once. Since its heavily armoured missile it can't be intercepted. I suppose they might introduce the uber cannon. For now this is the only method I have in the current build of beating planets that are protected really well, I would prefer to land units too.
you're looking for solutions in alderaan places. yup just said that. And I like the SXX the way it is, almost like a super weapon. I think we need another orbital bombardment unit that is less expensive, does not take much to shoot down, and does not cause nearly as much damage as the SXX.
