Reply: Eclipse: Rise of the Ancients:: Sessions:: Re: Two-player Game with RotA, First Aliens

by MichMedia

Nemesis420x wrote:

At a 4:1 trade rate, Orion should almost never trade. Much better off using what they find. Which kind of makes me curious what they were even trading. From what you've said here, I'm guessing they were trading their materials away which is generally a dumb idea no matter which race you're playing, let alone Orion, particularly playing against Mechanima.

I wasn't paying too close attention beyond "he never has much resource storage," but yeah; he must have been trading materials to have not been able to build many ships.

Nemesis420x wrote:

Next, I wouldn't say that making defensive builds with shields was necessarily a bad idea, again, particularly against Mechanima. It is really easy for Mechanima to upgrade to +4 ships, which clearly you countered by converting computers to cannons. Which were all ion cannons end game???

Good point. Had I had fewer ships, +4 computers would have been good. And yes, all Ion Cannon for me; I didn't get the only Plasma Cannon tech to show up, and those missile techs came out very late in the game (possibly last round).

Nemesis420x wrote:

And picking magenta over black for Orion? That's definitely where it all started to go wrong for them(!)

:laugh: