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Discussion, Suggestions & Feedback / Your Best/Most Memorable Battles
« on: January 13, 2017, 01:44:50 PM »
I know how important first posts are on any forum, so here's to wasting it.
First off, big fan of the mod, been playing it for several months, even introduced some friends to it.
Anyhoo, I'm actually kinda surprised that there isn't a thread on this already, so I'd like to pose the question of.......
What are your most memorable battles, whether it be space or land. You can include single/multiplayer, as well as those from the base game of EAW/FOC. Ones that are particularly amazing and/or cheesy/silly.
For me, one of the most memorable has to be a really silly one. I was playing the Shadow Hand GC as the NR, and the IR had already lost palpatine to me due to him never leaving Byss. However, the IR was still producing Executors and I was sick of them coming in on a planet only to leave almost immediately afterwards, so I devised a simple trap for the AI(unsurprisingly, the AI walked right into it) by building a large fleet of disposable frigates because I was sick of losing MC90's. What did I use, you may ask? 45 Marauder cruisers and an interdictor I had captured. The interdictor never got used, mostly because the Marauders did all of the work. I left a planet open with a single light frigate shipyard, and waited. Predictably, the Executor-Class SSD shows up and blows up the shipyard. I send in the fleet immediately afterwards and begin fighting. To make a long story short, 40 X-Wings and a lot of "tactical repositioning"(ie moving the Marauders behind the SSD every time it tried to move) the SSD eventually went down. the cost of the battle? 3 of the original 40 Marauders, and half of the accompanying X-Wings. I then went on to take over the space of three other planets with the fleet before running into actual resistance.
So please, feel free to share your own stories.
First off, big fan of the mod, been playing it for several months, even introduced some friends to it.
Anyhoo, I'm actually kinda surprised that there isn't a thread on this already, so I'd like to pose the question of.......
What are your most memorable battles, whether it be space or land. You can include single/multiplayer, as well as those from the base game of EAW/FOC. Ones that are particularly amazing and/or cheesy/silly.
For me, one of the most memorable has to be a really silly one. I was playing the Shadow Hand GC as the NR, and the IR had already lost palpatine to me due to him never leaving Byss. However, the IR was still producing Executors and I was sick of them coming in on a planet only to leave almost immediately afterwards, so I devised a simple trap for the AI(unsurprisingly, the AI walked right into it) by building a large fleet of disposable frigates because I was sick of losing MC90's. What did I use, you may ask? 45 Marauder cruisers and an interdictor I had captured. The interdictor never got used, mostly because the Marauders did all of the work. I left a planet open with a single light frigate shipyard, and waited. Predictably, the Executor-Class SSD shows up and blows up the shipyard. I send in the fleet immediately afterwards and begin fighting. To make a long story short, 40 X-Wings and a lot of "tactical repositioning"(ie moving the Marauders behind the SSD every time it tried to move) the SSD eventually went down. the cost of the battle? 3 of the original 40 Marauders, and half of the accompanying X-Wings. I then went on to take over the space of three other planets with the fleet before running into actual resistance.
So please, feel free to share your own stories.