Forgive me for going off topic and talking about a SAC,
I came here to read about GSB from people who are very good at this game. That is you guys. My first post was about a SAC challenge I had. There was no drama or accusations.
I thought your last(thc) SAC was great. It was challenging. Thank you. I also liked the new Nomad challenge. I was able to be beat both with a swarm fleet but then got completely crushed by the Swarm frigates in 27(or was it 26?). How do I build a robust fleet that can defeat the three previous fleets and hopefully present a challenge for the next few people?
The current stack of SAC is:
SAC26 Swarm Frigates Again posted 9/10
SAC27 Tribe Missles posted 9/10
SAC28 Nomad Missles posted 9/13
As I mentioned before, I can beat the last two with a swarm fleet and SAC26 with a hybrid tribe fleet but I can’t come up with a fleet to beat them all. I am waiting for players like zGeneral, Follick, or Travers to come up with something. Maybe if some kind soul moves that pesky SAC26 off of the stack, I can come up with something.
I have had poor luck putting together an effective Nomad fleet. I am glad 1235tw came up with a good Nomad fleet as it showed me it was possible.
arakis99 - SAC26 was painful but you wont believe how easy to beat it!
all you need on ur cruisers is a 2x mixed shields (top 2 shields) and any weapons u like to beat 27-28…! - the shield will keep the enemy fighters away.
you actually kill the frigates with fighters mostly, make around 9 groups of double rocks fighters and 3 groups of trace+rocks - you must stick together and escort at around 350
do not forget to coop and v in orders tool
to beat 28, u can ignore the armor wall/buffer by ordering ur cruiser to retaliate and rescue. this will make them skip the armor cruisers and hit the beef at the back!
Oh I know that, but the rescuer tag will make you totally suck vs Tribe. I didn’t think anyone would specifically use it to beat that one fleet, when doing so will reduce their chances vs the other 2.
That said, I beaten 26/27/28 with nothing but MWM/scrambler and dual rocket fighters/painter with Tribe, on co-op. I didn’t post cuz I don’t want to be spamming the SAC.
Hi, can you guys try out my new mod? I wanted it to be balanced enough so that it can eventually be used for future SAC, and would really appreciate some feedback in that regard.
I beat 33(first try!) and 32(2nd try with an ever so minor tweak). Then, with bated breath, I go against 31 with my uber swarm fleet of destruction. As I hit the fight button I utter an evil laugh (Mwahahaha) and say “Fall before me silly hippy tribesman. I will show you overpowered!!”. Then…
Kaboom, no more swarm, and the tribe fleet is all but unscathed. All variations I try fail utterly against 31. My SAC does indeed stand for Silly Armored Cruisers (which get pounded by the tribe). To add to my misery GSB crashes on me a couple times.
5-35 posted. Beats 28-34 (probably more) including STW’s armor wall and the anti-missile plasma spams.
So I got tired of waiting for nomads to come out on steam, and wow, nomad missiles are ridiculously overpowered. Seriously guys, these things beat out MWM by miles. They might even be good enough to make Nomad missile spam BETTER than tribe missile spam. I’m seriously surprised there’s only been one other Nomad fleet since release.
I disagree. MWM have higher theoretical DPS against close up targets, but if ships do get close up, that means they have speed. And both the tracking speed and missile speed on NM make them much better against rushes in practice. Anecdotally, I couldn’t beat your rad spam rush with pure MWM on tribe like I did with NM on nomad, but that might just be because it was rad spam against tribe.
