AI War:Parasites
What's The Best Way To Use Parasites?
A: Parasites are best in homogeneous swarms (just parasites). This means that the entire swarm will be weak against whatever parasites are weak against (be careful of that), but it will also insure that you have the maximum possible reclamations -- in order for a reclamation to occur, a parasite has to be the ship that deals the finishing blow.
The other major consideration when using parasites is energy; each ship you reclaim costs you energy, even though it is otherwise free. So before you send a lot of parasites into battle, it's a good idea to make sure you have an excess balance of energy (since some of your services shut off if your energy goes negative, such as tachyon beams, force fields, tractor beams, etc).
