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Hydro
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Winfield, IL, USA
Jun 1999
time: 05:29
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A non-atrocity way of dealing with the air force is anti-aircraft choppers, which will eviscerate noodles (which are typically unarmored) even when in a city. They are dead meat if they are in the air.
Also, consider a few interceptors at your forward bases to protect your infrastructure from bombing runs.
Lastly, the AI is pretty hopeless in using its air power for anything except taking out your formers and crawlers. Keep these defended by armoring your crawlers (I like upgrading my old infantry (move 1) formers to fusion, plasma, super, clean; plasma armor fusion is a relatively cheap upgrade before super-clean). So, if you are playing for time to beef up your military, block and deceive by upgrading your forward defenses.
Oh, and don't forget the joys of probing Yang to death to steal tech and energy. It's cheap, but takes a little doing to get the vulnerable units into position. Crippling his economy can be fun since it punishes the Unenlightened One for his socialistic and economically backward proclivities.
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Curiosity
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Like Hobbes said: Interceptor choppers. Just use impact weapons, and they're dirt cheap.
If you don't have MMI then use SAM skimships - again, cheap weapons are perfectly fine. A few with decent weapons can handle the attack ships.
If one of your submissives is nearby, have them go to war with him, too. He'll probably start pounding them, and take the heat off you.
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Flubber
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With a view of the Rockies
Aug 2000
time: 22:29
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Has the AI built any SAM units or interceptors ?? If not, use your own planes as a barrier if the AI does its usual trick of putting all its planes in one base. Even the AI should catch on fairly quickly but I have used this to delay an AI attack until I am better prepared
I will also move crawlers/formers away from the axis of attack -- even armoured, units in the open are usually dead against airpower unless they have AA and i would prefer to spend my money on a counterattack. Often if the AI has no easy attacks, it will attack nothing. The AI does not seem to understand that losing 3 or 4 jets to kill one elite AA unit in an aerocomplex might be worthwhile if it can then kill a bunch of your jets/choppers or even take the base.
I have seen the HIve AI with 30 or 40 missile jets in a base and never attack-- I did have <4> garrisons with an AC and a sensor so the defense was over 3 times as strong as the attack value (20 vs 6 not counting morale effects). I just let them sit there for a little while until I got choppers, sacrificed a couple of jets against his defenders and then massacred the lot.
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Hydro
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Winfield, IL, USA
Jun 1999
time: 05:29
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Curiosity - I was honored to be confused with HObbes!
Another trick is to put a plasma-fusion powered-AA defender with crawlers. Clean is good too, and relatively cheap. This will provide another block, especially if you have limited areas for mineral/energy/food extraction. The AI will attack the 'crawler' and die gloriously - teeheee.
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25-06-2003 07:44
This happened to me w/Miriam.
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