Can rebirth do this?

[Greyhawk1]

Ok so there I was. I had just reloaded my game and by fluke checked the Hub sector.

To my horror there was a Xenon J plus amaybe 10 L's in the Hub itself.

I say to my horror because two TL's filled with silicon ready for the hub missions and a couple of M6 patrols where my only defenses.

I had one asset that could survive - a boreas, currently languishing in some random boron sector.

1st thing I did was to jump in the boreas and command it to attack the J. This is when the Miracle of the M6 hapened.

The J immediately went for my stationary TL's with my single M6 defending.

That M6 was my second hand hydra I had bought hoping to get some decent marines.

The Argo (name of the Hydra) not only killed all the support L's OOS but protected both TL's until my Boreas took out the J.

All of this happened in 20 minutes of intense OOS-sector fighting. Just superb action.

I ask the dvs if this scenerio is possible in their new game?

[Masochisto]

Will M6s still be able to take out M7s on occasion? I hope so...

The bigger question is.. how did a Xenon M7 get into your HUB?!

[Gazz]

Heh. You want OOS combat to be radically random?
A laser's damage is random there and can vary from a factor of 1 through 150some.
This is the first time I've heard someone ask for this in terms of a solution.

In any case I doubt the devs are willing to give any guarantees on the balancing of such a specific scenario just yet...

[KongRudi]

Masochisto, Xenon J is a M1.
If it had been a M7 he would probably be in bigger troubles,the M7 class, Xenon Q's are usually heavily packed with IBL's wich rocks in OOS-combat.
But pretty awesome of the M6 to take out the 10 L's aswell as stalling the M7 long enough.

Most likely it got in there before gates were realigned, or he has realligned it to Xenon migration-paths.

[Stars_InTheirEyes]

I really hope that scale/size and destructiveness are on par with each other.
So opposite to what someone else said, I don't want an M6 to take out an M7. Ever.

One-on-One, it should always be the bigger ship to win.
Of course on the battlefield, a squadron of bombers should be able to do some serious work on the bigger ships.

But all you sci-fi'ers should agree that bigger is always nicer on the eyes when it's better. Would you choose an X-Wing or Super Star Destroyer?

On topic, I really hope more tactics will be required for both IS and OOS fights. Making any 'reinforcements' to arrive in TC is pretty much pure luck if they get to the fight in time. I'd like to see Rebirth's combat consider everything that most RTS's do.. But is that too much to ask?

[Zaitsev]

Would you choose an X-Wing or Super Star Destroyer?

Well, since the Executor was brought down by an A-Wing in the end ...