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Power of the assult transport

#1 Barbrossa

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Posted 11 October 2002 - 05:24 PM

Ya,
I Any one ever notice that the Ishman Assult transport is actually a pretty good ship in general. It is almost like a huyped up fighter. Its normle laser, primary wepon thing fires about twice as fast as a gunships, its has 5 C missles, and without help mind you, can deliver its ETA troops to a bunker. Weel, if you can dodge the missles of ity and then fly over and dump off the troopps........ But seroisly, it is a realtivly good ship. It can fend for itself against a couple salrilian cruisers!

Please tell me what you think about this........

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Posted 12 October 2002 - 11:38 AM

Yes, that is a tad obvious...

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Posted 12 October 2002 - 01:38 PM

Yes, it is a pretty tough ship. It is maneuverable and tough. One thing it can't stand up to is an HVD.

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Posted 12 October 2002 - 06:32 PM

Ishiman ATR is a bit weak IMO.

Now, Sal ATRs on the other hand....

Once on GameRanger I defeated a guy in a Salrilian vs Salrilian game by massing ATRs to massacre his gunships and cruisers with their magno pulse weapons. Quite easy when you have 3 Outposts and the Bunker Station Posted Image

...on a side note anyone know how to get OmniWeb to stop underlining Salrilian, GameRanger, etc as mispelled words?

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Posted 12 October 2002 - 07:06 PM

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Originally posted by Patrick:
Ishiman ATR is a bit weak IMO.

Now, Sal ATRs on the other hand....

Once on GameRanger I defeated a guy in a Salrilian vs Salrilian game by massing ATRs to massacre his gunships and cruisers with their magno pulse weapons. Quite easy when you have 3 Outposts and the Bunker Station

...on a side note anyone know how to get OmniWeb to stop underlining Salrilian, GameRanger, etc as mispelled words?

Sure just Control Click on the word and in the menu click Learn Spelling

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#6 Barbrossa

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Posted 13 October 2002 - 12:27 PM

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Sure just Control Click on the word and in the menu click Learn Spelling

Hey, your a plug writer, or programmer?
Im looking for a programmer

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Posted 13 October 2002 - 02:27 PM

I'm a programmer. Erm, half-time programmer.

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Posted 13 October 2002 - 03:16 PM

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I'm a programmer. Erm, half-time programmer.

Would you consider working on a plug of mine with me. I'm looking for a programmer, and an artist. This plug of mine, if you so choose to help me with, is a going to be a very nice one., involving the Eejetian and Bazidian.(not good with spelling). Tell me what you think of helping me on it

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Posted 13 October 2002 - 05:30 PM

Sorry I can't take on any more plugins right now as I have 2 in development right now. Hopefully somebody else can help you though.

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Posted 13 October 2002 - 08:35 PM

I have Elejeetian sprites and ships, but not Bazidanese.

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Posted 14 October 2002 - 04:50 AM

Assault transports aren't half bad... but then, I suppose you automatically assume that since they serve the same function as transports, they must be relatively weak.

I do recall that balancing the Chi'uata Assault Transport was necessary- they shouldn't be able to destroy a Gunship one on one.

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#12 Pallas Athene

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Posted 14 October 2002 - 02:10 PM

Assault Transports can make an acceptable defense force, but they can never be a good attack force - they don't have hyperdrive. Should you send a fleet of them to your enemy's planet, the enemy can simply bypass it and never actually have to fight it.

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Posted 14 October 2002 - 02:19 PM

If you have a fleet of assault transports camping over the enemy's planet, especially Salrillian ones, then they have a problem.

Hmm, 4-5 assault transports unloading all their people over the enemy planet, hindering movement...

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Posted 14 October 2002 - 02:25 PM

Yes, but it takes a long time to get the Assault transports there, and while you do so, you're completely open to attack, since the Atrans won't be helping.

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#15 Barbrossa

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Posted 15 October 2002 - 05:41 PM

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Originally posted by Blood Eagle:
I have Elejeetian sprites and ships, but not Bazidanese.

Really?
like gunships, carriers and transports.. that kinda stuff.
that would be about about 1/4 of what i need to make this plug!
perfect!

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Posted 15 October 2002 - 10:53 PM

I can "invent" Bazidanese ships and weps for you... if you want. I don't have time to program though. I can just give you the specs.

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Posted 16 October 2002 - 10:04 PM

Yeah, I was playing with somebody on GR - they may know who they are... I was talking to them saying that a Salrillian Carrier could take out an Ishiman HVD any day - so they decided to challenge me. I accidentally built an Assault transport first and said "Oops, don't attack it," they did though. They didn't lose, but even without computer control on the ATR, the HVD limped away, blinking and about 2 Magno Pulses away from Doom. Now tell me if a carrier would have lost that...

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Posted 16 October 2002 - 10:12 PM

Yep, if the person flying the hvd was at least halfway decent at flying, he could take out your carrier.

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Posted 16 October 2002 - 10:47 PM

Well... Not if all 10 fighters are all prelaunched. They will be enough to distract the HVD from the actual target, making the HVD an easy kill for the Carrier. Posted Image

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Posted 17 October 2002 - 05:46 PM

a HVD can take 2 carriers of any race out EASILY with decent piloting.

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Posted 17 October 2002 - 06:13 PM

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Well... Not if all 10 fighters are all prelaunched. They will be enough to distract the HVD from the actual target, making the HVD an easy kill for the Carrier.

Use your big red ball weapon to take out the fighters in 1-2 hits and you won't even have to stop accelerating.

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Posted 17 October 2002 - 09:43 PM

**would very much like to see a pilot who can kill Salrilian fighters(~600 HP) in 1-2 Fullerene hits(200 dmg apiece) Posted Image

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Posted 17 October 2002 - 11:39 PM

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**would very much like to see a pilot who can kill Salrilian fighters(~600 HP) in 1-2 Fullerene hits(200 dmg apiece)

Oooh! Just watch me! <Does it> Hehehe...

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#24 Barbrossa

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Posted 18 October 2002 - 05:00 PM

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Originally posted by Blood Eagle:
I can "invent" Bazidanese ships and weps for you... if you want. I don't have time to program though. I can just give you the specs.

Sure that would be great! so, you are like an artist and a programmer!

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