What strategy is there for an imminent asteroid strike?

Strategy that prevents an asteroid strike?

In favour of balancing (not saying that they are confirmed) the Mega bot or Super Units or Planetary Super Structures or other cool idea.

An asteroid is a natural cosmic super-weapon. If you can build an artificial super-weapon of the same magnitude, it kinda defy the whole idea. Who needs asteroids if you can build something as powerful yourself?

The only thing as powerful as an asteroid should be another asteroid.

This poll is painful to read. It's like no thought went into it at all.

And yet, super structures so far leads with 50% (6 votes).

Let the people vote. scornful look at nanolathe

Asteroids are a form of terrain. Why is there no option to fight over the terrain?

Bad poll is bad.

Indeed, that poll is bad.

Easiest way to deal with an incoming asteroid is to hijack the asteroid and take over the engines in order to send that thing back to its source. Alternative is to send up a regular nuke and hope that the asteroid will miss once the thrusters are gone. Chances are good as long as the asteroid is not on final course yet.

Try jumping out the way.

I'd much rather control the asteroid and have to keep fighting over it as a tiny tiny map. It would be like reverse hot potato, only the potato is a mile across.

Well assuming you have sufficient intel to detect it perhaps you get a time countdown for impact and you are forced to evacuate and relocate in time. Perhaps if you shoot down the asteroid early enough you will be hit by a few meteors and damage will be minimised. I guess the damage it does and the counters for it depend on the cost to create an asteroid strike.

I'd like it to be like in the kickstarter video where you can try to prevent or mitigate some damage with nuclear weaponry

Of course ace, that and the terrain fighting would be the best combination. I hope they manage to do the fragmentation after the nuke hit. It might be very hard if they try to actually simulate it instead of just having a preset dispersal like shotguns have in most games.

A nuke maybe, but preferably just make asteroids slow enough (to build and move) that you can send in normal units to destroy the engines. Though an audible alert would be nice for when an asteroid starts to move, like the "nuclear launch detected" one.

A 'panic' option would be good.

:idea: :!:

This should be your first course of action. Planets are disposable.

Why this looks so familiar?

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I will repeat what I said in that thread (short version): run or deflect it using another asteroid

If they managed to pull it off it is too late. Think about it like a nuke. If you saw it being built and if you built anti nuke your fine. But if you learn about it when you hear "strategic launch detected". Then RUN forest RUN!

Die?

yes

What a telling response

Or are you psyching us out?