by Petri
hudcrab wrote:
The Exiles - OK. Cloaking device is the best rare tech. But those orbital designs suck. 6 materials? For a 3-slot starbase with NO initiative? You're only building these oribitals for the VP and the sci/mon. There is almost no defensive benefit to having them because they will likely be destroyed before they get a shot in AND you can only have one per hex. I houserule them so that their orbital design is a normal starbase design. No complaints about this being OP from my game group.
I found that the combination of those Orbitals and Cloaking Device can be really powerful when combined with Neutron Bombs. If somebody attacks your sector with an orbital, your ships will not be pinned unless the sector is attacked with 4 ships. This creates very interesting opportunities for nice counter attacks.