When the numbers and the skill aren’t enough

Orion's Belt Gazette

September 14, 2009

When the numbers and the skill aren’t enough

Filed under: Battle Analysis — Mawhrin-Skel @ 1:56 pm

I just lost a relic to Death Squadron, on a epic battle against tsousa. This battle is a great showcase of race strengths and weaknesses, and that a victory consists on several requisites: you need good numbers, you need good skills, and you need an appropriate fleet. I had huge members, far greater than my opponent. I had: 865 Stinger, 589 Worm and hundreds of Interceptor and Seeker. But all this huge raw power was ineffective against the super tuned up fleet of my opponent. He only had 175 Kahuna, 489 Krill and lots of Raptor and Samurai. He also had a Battle Moon, but he didn’t need to use it.

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My fleet was heavily handicapped. It had lots of raw power, but it didn’t have any zone control units. The opponent had Kahuna, that pretty much controlled the game. No, the biggest advantage was the Raptor/Samurai combo. These combat units, excellent for cannon fodder annulment, destroyed all my light units. And without light units, without zone control units, I was defenseless. Looking back, there was somethings that I could do, mainly: splitting the Worm in lots of small groups, to counterattack the Raptor/Samurai. Even so, I don’t know if I’d manage it. That smaller fleet looks like it was made specifically to overcome my powerful fleet.

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My name is Pedro Santos and my nick on the game is Mawhrin-Skel. I'm one of the developers of Orion's Belt. You can see my personal blog at psantos.zi-yu.com.

4 Comments

Nice epic numbers battle =) Also I noticed that no long range or heavy units were used by both. Anyway this is a good example of why I didn’t choose levyr as my race, they have great abilities but no rebound or catapult :/ and they’re lights aren’t that good. It’s interesting but I hardly see any levyr using destroyers, they have bomb attack which could be brutal in terms of area damage.

Cheers

Comment by reborned — September 14, 2009 @ 4:16 pm
I use few destroyers.. they’re very good, but expensive and need to be at close range, or else aren’t as effective.

Comment by Mawhrin-Skel — September 14, 2009 @ 4:17 pm
I have the 3 races and the levyr is the fastest race to become level 10. Thats why ashis was the first to get to level 10. At level 10, i guess this races gets better with quantity. I thin the queen is very good too. This race has the paralize which is good to do traps, no other race has paralize

Comment by Danceman — September 14, 2009 @ 10:09 pm
Just remembered, the levyr has the biggest storage before the other races, very good to win lots of orions and buy the units like catapult units you need. The levyr are a merchant race. The renegade for example have to be a pilage race (darn cryptium), so little resources. The levyr and humans are the best low level units (worms and krills).

Comment by Danceman — September 15, 2009 @ 8:07 pm

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September 14, 2009