re: Galaxy Help?

From: cebra@ids2.idsonline.com (Jonathan Cebra)

Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000

>I am looking for different strategies or even personal experiences in
>the game.  I am sure there are many victors that are dying to share
>how the galaxy was won away from the lesser mortals and scum.

>Any help appreciated.

>Thanx

>Mike
>-----------------------------------------

There is a fair bit of good advice available on the web.  Here is a site that
will get you started:
http://www.jacobean.demon.co.uk/galaxy/start.html

It includes links to Howard Bampton's Guide to Ship Design, which implicitly
covers a lot of basic combat tactics.  To summarize very briefly: you have to
design fleets rather than single warships; a fleet should contain at minimum a
few large guns to shoot down well defended ships, a number of cheap deflectors
to distract enemy guns, and a number of small guns to shoot down the opposing
deflectors.  The guide goes into a lot more detail and is well worth reading.

There is also a link to Tim Hughes Strategy Tips, which are worth their weight
in gold.  I especially recommend the section on why it is worth communicating
with all other players - I have played in games where players didn't even know
the race names of their neighbors! Those players would do well to consider
Tim's advice.

There is a link to Jacco van Weert's military strategy guide, which includes
the history of one galaxy game.  Jacco includes an ideal order of battle, but
my guess is that he may never have fully mobilized the entire order of battle
that he describes.  The general themes are more important than the numbers.

There also seems to be an archive of a recent thread on this newsgroup which
discussed the value of building and shipping Mat, and also diverged somewhat
into the value of static defenses.