As I was finishing the building of a Tractor Beam complex in Spring of Belief I spotted a Zeus, Deimos & Nemesis plus 30 fighters heading for the North gate. The Zeus, home based in Pontiflex Seclusion, ‘said’ it was going to Argon Prime.
In this game I’ve placed my HQ in Argon Prime, mid-way betwixt S & E gates. The Hub is linked AP-Ringo Moon and SB-Priests Refuge so there is a ‘quick’ path for my QT/Comp plant .. and also the Paranids.
So they roll into AP and start having a go: Argon as usual do nothing. I am not really interested until the Deimos, Nemesis and fighters take out Dan Banna’s Argon-one to the East of my HQ. Now that was interesting.
Still, that’s life and sent a ship to collect all spillages.Argon sent in a couple of military Centaurs from the south. Whilst flattening the Nemesis they caused the Deimos sufficient angst such that whilst avoiding their fire it crashed into my HQ. My HQ shields were down to 85% but no other apparent damage. I got slightly annoyed at this blatant display of poor piloting.
Scanning the sector it was apparent that the Zeus was pissed off at this turn of events and decided to stop blasting the Trading Dock (45% shields left) and went for the Equip Dock. In passing its fighters took out the 2 centaurs with pbg fire.
Now, I have 17 marines in various stages of training in this Eq-Dock; it’s shields are down to 50% and still no Argon response. As luck would have it I have a captured mercenary Hades fully loaded for bear on my other complex in AP, 15 km east of the Eq-Dock.
So I change it’s status to Paranid-foe and just undocked it with no orders. Into the sector screen and order it to fire missiles at the Zeus then jumped it to my Eq-Dock in Home of Light, and set it to Paranid-friend.
I’ve never tried this rep saving missile trick before but it worked quite well as ALL (and I mean all) paranid ships in AP went to the great singularity in the sky. Perhaps I should have remembered that the barrage command releases 9 missiles per barrage. When I input 20 it was down 179 tomahawks (it’s full load). Operator error!
. Sent out 2 more ships for spillage duty. Checked Elena’s and there is only the Oddy and a Nemsis left so it’s off-a’capping we go.
Neil
