Posted by: tlmiller
« on: April 27, 2015, 10:39:35 PM »Simply because Thrawn didn't use them, that's why they can't build them.
According to the 2.1 manual, the Executor can be built in Era's 1,4,5.
I'm currently playing the NR in Final Imperial Push on Captain Difficulty. I had solidified my territory pretty well, and my economy was growing and my borders were quite heavily fortified. Then I had to go afk, because I had dinner. I decided not to pause because when I came back, I knew I would have gained significantly in the economy. It was around week 350 when I returned. I had about 3 million credits by then. I doube checked my fortifications (no one attacked me while I was gone. EotH and IR were probably whacking away at each other. Then I resumed my offensive. By then, I already had my Viscount Star Defender.
It was some dozen weeks later that I discovered that the economy boost by my afking had consequences. The IR had already built 3 Executors. So this resulted in a very lengthy border war between the IR and NR where I strike at their planets and quickly retreat whenever they sent in an Executor (excet when they attacked on of my fortified planets, ha those Executors tremble before my ion cannon), at least until I had figured out the way to get the upper hand: blitz them. I attack unguarded planets and quickly took them and built up ion cannons and shipyards and golans. It worked. They got desperate and kept sending theirExecutors until I had killed 10 of them (I counted) by maneuvering my big guns into its large blind spot and shooting up its ass. And often times, it just fucking sat there. Haha, I was laughing with glee t how easy the AI made this.