How do you beat the Talisman?

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Trajan:
I had a talisman race attack my warp point defenses the other day.

One of the most useful defenses I had was a stack of satellites loaded with singularity torps. I picked a few torps to fire each time, targeted a different ship in the enemy fleet.

A stack of 35 sattellites really took the teeth out of the enemy fleet of 30 odd dreads & battleships. Afterwhich my bases, which all had external missle packs fired and cleaned up the mess. My orbiting fleet 20 ships, ranging from ligt cruisers to dreads, only had to deal with a few stragglers.

Keep in mind though, that this was a close range warp point smack down, against the idiot AI, in a non-simulatneous game, and I ran it tactically. In a strategic level fight, the Sat's would have all shot their wad at only a few ships (going for the kill instead of the disable) and I would have gotten very bloodied, though I think I still would have won.

Cheers!
Trajan

The reason they would go for the kill is that the strategy they are using tells them to go for the kill. We really need more experimentation with strategies to see what can be done with the options we already have. I bet that creating a special satellite strategy to only damage ships 50 percent would increase the number of targets that a satellite stack would allocate. The question is, would it then stupidly NOT use a large part of its weapons when only one or two ships appeared?