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« on: August 31, 2018, 05:46:38 PM »
I do have a question or two regarding NR.
You do have some very good detailed info on the era changes for their ship roster. But for this faction there isn't much advice posted on how to handle their starting position debacle in Art of War and similar scenarios, except for acknowledging that it's a thing.
I'm very big on having consolidated territory and funneling my chokepoints. So GM, PA, and EoTH are all good fits for me but I've yet to manage a single NR campaign properly.
The best I've managed is putting a small token fleet on Bakura, I let the EA conquer Moorja so I can use Nantz's fleet to steal Eiattu 6 from them in the meantime, thereby linking Sullust up. Meanwhile up north I send Ackbar to claim 2 corporate sector worlds and then turtle up there (Bonadan on land, Ession in space). Thankfully this seems to be enough pressure to give Zinj cold feet early game. The problem is even with mines on those 2 corporate sector planets, my income is still too modest to better balance my fleets or create a third major fleet to assign the task of conquering Hutt Space to link Bothawui to Mon Cal. The result is most of my heroes are stuck twiddling their thumbs at Mon Cal while Nantz is stuck repelling occasional EA counterattacks. The EA seems to run a 50/50 split of attention between me and trying to steal Thyferra from IR, which isn't too bad except whenever I grab the fleet space over Vondarc or Sanrafsix, Delvadarus usually brings his personal Praetor into play. Which I struggle with him since as you said, there aren't really any Era 1 Kill fleet options, and even if there were I don't have the budget to churn out MC80 Home One Types anyhow. This makes linking Nantz's sector with Fondor or Bothawui a pipe dream for me as most of my forces are stuck on defense. :/
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