AI War:OLD Starships
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How Do I Best Use Starships?
A: Starships are very powerful, but they are also harder to use than your main Space-Dock-based military ships. Here are a few tips:
- Try augmenting your fleets with Starships, but avoid making fleets that purely consist of starships. On enemy planets, when they see you doing this, they will build lots of Anti-Starship Arachnids to counter them. You'll want other ships to support your starships and take out those enemy arachnids.
- One or two starships by themselves aren't generally that powerful. They do a lot of damage and can strike several ships at once, but they are weak against fighters in particular, and also some other ship types can whittle away at them from a distance (such as cruisers). Like with an aircraft carrier in a naval fleet, your starships are meant to have strike groups of fighters, cruisers, and other smaller mobile ships to augment them.
- Starships can be repaired. So if a starship is getting low on health, be sure to retreat before it's too late! Having engineers repair it back to full health is free, but having to build a replacement is quite expensive.
- There are two basic upgrade paths for Starships: Raid/Leech or Flagship/Zinth/Spire. The Spire starship is the most powerful in the game, firing powerful cruiser-style missiles. However, you get more of both the Raid and Leech starships, and the Leech starships allow you to "reclaim" enemies like parasites do. This in itself can be quite a formidable bonus, so it's not always an easy choice as to which path to take.
