Sins of a Solar Empire

[Dab]

I can't believe there are that many Advent-obsessives.. Advent sucks.. Your capitals are slightly, slightly better than the TEC, with the exceptions of the battleships, as the Kol does kick ass..

However, we have much better support ships, like the missile frigates, Kodiak Cruisers, and light carriers.. Get a properly set up fleet and TEC can basically kill anything.. I took out a pirate base that was at the highest hostility level, with 15 missile frigates, 10 Kodiaks, 15 light carriers, and 3 capitals (Kol BS, Akkan BC, and Carrier).

Its just that the computer, and most players, don't know how to play as TEC.. People like to focus on military or civilian research first.. It doesn't work that way for TEC. You gotta balance your research between them, and getting the metal and crystal mining Civ upgrades is a must for the TEC, as well as getting the Refinery upgrade and building lots of refineries on the planets.. Other than that, researching ship upgrades is extremely important.. Getting to Kodiak Cruisers as fast as possible is useless if you haven't gotten any weapon, shield, or armor upgrades..

I'd say the TEC's best weapon is to make lots of Light carriers and Robotic ships for their fleets. 15 Light carriers each carrying a bomber can do a LOT of damage, especially when added to capital's bombers, and Capital Carrier's. 20-25 bombers can make short work of an enemy fleet.. Then the robotic ships, if you have 10 of, can repair your capitals almost as fast as enemies can damage them.. And if the enemy target your robotic ships, they repair each other, AND your normal ships can go all-out on the enemy.. In the end, by the time the robotic ships are dead, the enemy fleet is too weak to do anything..

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