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== Core Guard Posts ==
 
== Core Guard Posts ==
  
Core Guard Posts are a stronger and more dangerous type of guard post that only spawns on an AI homeworld. They increase the [[AI Progress]] by 1 when destroyed and they must be destroyed before the AI [[AI War:Command Station|Orbital Command Station]] in that system (homeworld or not) can be destroyed. Unless the "Lazy AI" option is activated, they also increase the AIP floor by 10 when destroyed. On the AI homeworlds, the Core Guard Posts cannot be destroyed while at least one [[AI War:Core Shield Generator|Core Shield Generator] remains in the galaxy.
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Core Guard Posts are a stronger and more dangerous type of guard post that only spawns on an AI homeworld. They increase the [[AI Progress]] by 1 when destroyed and they must be destroyed before the AI [[AI War:Command Station|Orbital Command Station]] in that system (homeworld or not) can be destroyed. Unless the "Lazy AI" option is activated, they also increase the AIP floor by 10 when destroyed. On the AI homeworlds, the Core Guard Posts cannot be destroyed while at least one [[AI War:Core Shield Generator|Core Shield Generator]] remains in the galaxy.
  
 
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Revision as of 04:05, 18 June 2016


Guard Posts are immobile AI units. They are AI equivalent for turrets and are the main challenge when neutering or capturing an AI planet. They block resource deposits and also serve as AI Reinforcement points, hence their name. While their firepower is high, paying close attention to hull types and bonuses is required when dealing with them. They all have a very slow regeneration and a Radar Dampening that makes them impossible to outrange.

There is three pools of Guard Posts: a regular pool, a pool for the Planetary Subcommanders, and a pool for the AI homeworlds, named Core Guard Posts. While subcommanders can pick their guard posts in the regular and their reserved pool, the homeworlds can only have guard posts picked from their reserved "Core" pool.

Regular Guard Posts

AI War:Anti-Starship Arachnid Guard Post
Anti-Starship Arachnid Guard Post
Mid-range AI guard post that can't fire upon most small mobile targets. But its high-powered lasers can do grievous harm to starships, fortresses, forcefields, guard posts, guardians and turrets.
AI War:Cloaker Guard Post
Cloaker Guard Post
Basic AI guard post with no gun, but a cloaking device that cloaks other AI ships near it. The post itself cannot be cloaked.
AI War:Command Station Shield Guard Post
Command Station Shield Guard Post
Low-range AI guard post with mid-power guns. Must be destroyed before humans can damage the AI Command Station on this planet.
AI War:Laser Guard Post
Laser Guard Post
Basic AI guard post armed with several heavy-laser batteries.
AI War:Missile Guard Post
Missile Guard Post
Basic AI guard post armed with a single long-range, high-damage missile launcher.
AI War:MLRS Guard Post
MLRS Guard Post
Basic AI guard post armed with many MLRS batteries.
AI War:Needler Guard Post
Needler Guard Post
Basic AI guard post armed with several heavy-needler batteries.
AI War:Special Forces Guard Post
Special Forces Guard Post
When an AI gets reinforcements, each guard posts also gets reinforcements, and the reinforcements generated for special forces guard posts are immediately assigned to special forces and form a group that rallies to defend against attacks on planets the AI cares about.
AI War:Spire Shield Sphere Guard Post
Spire Shield Sphere Guard Post
Alien technology with relatively few guns, but an impressive force field attachment.
AI War:Warp Counterattack Guard Post
Warp Counterattack Guard Post
AI guard post with practically no guns, but the powerful ability to warp in a low-warning counterattack wave to most human planets without a warp jammer command station (regardless of warp gates).
These counterattacks are launched when this guard post is destroyed. This guard post must be destroyed before humans can damage the AI Command Station on this planet.
AI War:Wormhole Guard Post
Wormhole Guard Post
These massively-armored guard posts have practically no guns, but stand sentinel over wormholes that the AI controls. They are destroyed when the command station is destroyed -- attacking them head-on is usually a waste of time.

Special Guard Posts

These guard posts are only available to Planetary Subcommanders, which select them according to their personality. They tend to be more dangerous because of their special abilities and the way the subcommanders select and place them.

AI War:Disassembler Guard Post
Disassembler Guard Post
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AI War:Enclave Guard Post
Enclave Guard Post
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AI War:Gravity Guard Post
Gravity Guard Post
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AI War:Implosion Guard Post
Implosion Guard Post
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Munition Boosting Guard Post
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AI War:Plasma Guard Post
Plasma Guard Post
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AI War:Sniper Guard Post
Sniper Guard Post
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AI War:Spider Guard Post
Spider Guard Post
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AI War:Tachyon Guard Post
Tachyon Guard Post
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AI War:Tractor Guard Post
Tractor Guard Post
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AI War:Widow Guard Post
Widow Guard Post
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Core Guard Posts

Core Guard Posts are a stronger and more dangerous type of guard post that only spawns on an AI homeworld. They increase the AI Progress by 1 when destroyed and they must be destroyed before the AI Orbital Command Station in that system (homeworld or not) can be destroyed. Unless the "Lazy AI" option is activated, they also increase the AIP floor by 10 when destroyed. On the AI homeworlds, the Core Guard Posts cannot be destroyed while at least one Core Shield Generator remains in the galaxy.

AI War:Booster Guard Post
Booster Guard Post
Middling weaponry, but significantly boosts both the munitions and the armor of all nearby AI ships.
AI War:Cross Planet Attack Guard Post
Cross Planet Attack Guard Post
Launches brutal galaxy-wide cross planet attacks as soon as the human players bring military ships to this post's planet. These CPAs happen around every 13 minutes and are heavily influenced in their size by both the current AI Progress and the difficulty level of the AI controlling this post.
AI War:Electric Guard Post
Electric Guard Post
Emits fearsome large-scale electric area damage.
AI War:Grav Reactor Guard Post
Grav Reactor Guard Post
An enormously powerful reactor based on some kind of gravitational energy manipulation. Generates a strong gravity well that prevents most enemy ships from leaving the system, and greatly slows enemy ships that stray too near the reactor itself.
AI War:Heavy Beam Guard Post
Heavy Beam Guard Post
A massive long-range beam cannon that can vaporize many smaller craft in one blast, or do extreme damage to a larger target. The beam fired by this guard post is the same type as fired by the Heavy Beam Turret.
AI War:Leech Guard Post
Leech Guard Post
Reclaims enemy ships it kills (reclaimed ships have health = damage inflicted by reclamator).
AI War:Core Missile Guard Post
Core Missile Guard Post
Emits fearsome long-range, armor-piercing, high-damage missiles.
AI War:Neinzul Melee Guard Post
Neinzul Melee Guard Post
This mobile alien guard post comes after human fleets with its guards in tow, chewing through any ships it touches with whirling blades.
AI War:Neinzul Spawner Guard Post
Neinzul Spawner Guard Post
Alien technology spawns powerful-yet-short-lived Neinzul Youngling Cockroaches.
AI War:Raid Engine Guard Post
Raid Engine Guard Post
Launches brutal mark V waves against its own planet or any adjacent planets, if those planets are not controlled by AI players, or if the human players have a significant fleet there. If human players don't have warp sensors on these planets, the waves may well arrive unannounced. These waves arrive around every four minutes and contain a broad mix of AI ships.
AI War:Sentinel Guard Post
Sentinel Guard Post
This mobile guard post comes after human fleets with its guards in tow, firing beam weapons.
AI War:Core Spire Shield Guard Post
Core Spire Shield Sphere Guard Post
Alien technology with relatively few guns, but an impressive force field attachment.
AI War:Teuthida Guard Post
Teuthida Guard Post
An AI/Neinzul hybrid experiment gone wrong. When hostiles are present, this post continuously generates nanoswarm-like drones. Instead of merely doing reclamation damage, however, the organisms released by these drones instantly transform the targets into "zombie" vessels. Ships immune to reclamation are spared this fate, but are not spared from the extremely powerful cluster of railcannons mounted on the post itself.
AI War:Wrath Lance Guard Post
Wrath Lance Guard Post
As long as it detects hostile military ships on the planet, fires several massive long-range continuous beam weapon cannons in different directions.
AI War:Zenith Bombard Guard Post
Zenith Bombard Guard Post
Alien technology emits extremely long-range mid-power energy bomb attacks.
AI War:Zenith Fortress Guard Post
Zenith Fortress Guard Post
Alien immobile fortress emits massive flame waves at short range.




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