AI War:Guard Posts
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
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Laser Guard Post Basic AI guard post armed with several heavy-laser batteries. |
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Missile Guard Post Basic AI guard post armed with a single long-range, high-damage missile launcher. |
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MLRS Guard Post Basic AI guard post armed with many MLRS batteries. |
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Needler Guard Post Basic AI guard post armed with several heavy-needler batteries. |
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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. |
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Spire Shield Sphere Guard Post Alien technology with relatively few guns, but an impressive force field attachment. |
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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. |
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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.
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 [[AI War:Core Shield Generator|Core Shield Generator] remains in the galaxy.
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Booster Guard Post Middling weaponry, but significantly boosts both the munitions and the armor of all nearby AI ships. |
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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. |
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Electric Guard Post Emits fearsome large-scale electric area damage. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Leech Guard Post Reclaims enemy ships it kills (reclaimed ships have health = damage inflicted by reclamator). |
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Core Missile Guard Post Emits fearsome long-range, armor-piercing, high-damage missiles. |
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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. |
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Neinzul Spawner Guard Post Alien technology spawns powerful-yet-short-lived Neinzul Youngling Cockroaches. |
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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. |
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Sentinel Guard Post This mobile guard post comes after human fleets with its guards in tow, firing beam weapons. |
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Core Spire Shield Sphere Guard Post Alien technology with relatively few guns, but an impressive force field attachment. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Zenith Bombard Guard Post Alien technology emits extremely long-range mid-power energy bomb attacks. |
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Zenith Fortress Guard Post Alien immobile fortress emits massive flame waves at short range. |
