Re: Galaxy: fleet construction

From: bjones@retzlaff.tmc.edu (Brian Jones)

Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <3n71lb$bal@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
KarenH1026 <karenh1026@aol.com> wrote:
>Can anyone out there give advice to a newbie concerning fleet construction
>in Galaxy?  What have people traditionally built?  Large fighter
>squadrons, big 5000 production unit ships?
>
>An entire world will thank you.  :)
>
>-Karen

Generally I and most of the successful players I have seen build mixed
fleets.  A couple of mass 99 big guns, a couple of mass 99 chaff killers,
butloads of chaff, and what ever other smaller ships that you have hanging
around. I am not a big fan of fighters except to hit outlying lightly
defended worlds. When I first started playing, I would build one or two
big multiturn ships, but as I have become more experienced, I have ceased
to do so. The multi's are great for surprise attacks, but the good players
are rarely caught by surprise, and the expense of upgrading multi's
just makes them a little to marginal for my tastes.

Ship    D    W    A    S    C   Mass
A       33   3    16.5 33   0   99
B       33   5    11   33   0   99
C       33   32   2    33   0   99
D       33   65   1    33   0   99
Scout   1    0    0    0    0   1
Chaff   1    0    0    2    0   3
E       33   1    33   33   0   99

Whether I use A or B for my big guns depends on my opponents effective
shields. I try to make sure I have at least a 25% chance of my biggest gun
taking out his best shields. Whether I use Scouts or chaff also works the
same way. If he only has chaff killers that have an attack of 1 (like D,
above), then I'll use Chaff, because they have an effective shields of 4.3,
and thus cannot be hurt by an attack 1 weapon. Conversely, If he has
chaffkillers that have a very high attack (say2.5+) I will use scouts
instead, because I can get three times as many.

The ship E is included to go after multi-turners. Sometimes 33 isn't even
enough, and you need to go:

E'      33   1    50   16   0   99

Generally though, unless your opponents shield tech >> your weapon tech,
this extreme is unneccessary.

Monster 132  1    25   239  0   396

At all techs equal, the E has a 9.6% chance of killing this Monster.
The E' has a 24.6 % chance. I'd be more inclined to use an E and a dozen
or so Scouts, but either the E or E' will work just fine, coupled with
some sort of chaff.

I hope this helps, though not so much so that you can beat me. :)

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Galaxy: fleet construction
karenh1026@aol.com (KarenH1026)
Thu, 20 Apr 1995 00:00:00 +0000