Alpha Centari Strategems

[McNeo]

Diedre.

Early game, free captured mindworms, you can crush your nearest neighbor with them, and once they've gained veterancy from larvae to boil/mature boil, crush the second one. As far as I know, you dont need to support them either.

As Deidre also, you can use your social projects to gain +6 efficiency (at support expense of -1 support, -1 police and +4 environment) [Democratic,Green]. Spam bases, you can support up to 30 with +6 eff without extra drones. Build loads of bases on the seaside, then spam boreholes and farms/solars at those bases to make your awesome trained silksteel missile destroyers.

Retain enough credits to bring some of your previous units, likely synth sentinels and plasma sentinels, up to par, and begin your offense when you reach gattling laser (5 attack) or missile tech (6 attack) (whichever comes first really).

Once you reach this phase, switch your Democratic policy to Police State (+6 eff -> +2 eff, -1 support -> +1 support, -1 police -> +1 police) if you need minerals due to the crappy support costs. You might have to nerve staple a lot of places as I did, but Unseelie suggested to me to cut down on economy and labs in favour of psych, which in hindsight was probably better. This allows you more or less +4 minerals at each of your production bases, which should have in the area of 12-25 minerals after deductions, allowing you to spam destroyers, destroyer transports, foils and various other implements of increasing pain.

At this point I made the mistake of having upwards of 35 bases, which was basically a third of the map, a whole continent, of my bases. Except Lal, who was a protectorate and who held the bottom of the island.

This is what I did in my last game >_>