The key to winning against glass cannons is to build even cheaper glass cannons. If your opponent doesn't have any flak or extra hitpoints, just make ships with barely enough firepower to kill a ship of their own before exploding... a small ship like that only costs ~50 production. The way to compete against the cheaper glass cannons is to reduce the amount of missiles his ships are carrying and either add some flak or just accept the wasted space. Either way, it will soon become possible for you to equip your own ships with flak enough to withstand his missile barrages.

if you arent ahead on flak tech compared to missile tech, its difficult to efficiently counter it with defense. especially if they are your neighbor and appear to fight you first. in my experience most players think they will have time to build infrastructure and expand and research in peace. so when those warships come rolling in, they just dont have anything to combat them.



under the current system for multiplayer, assuming the game has no house rules, players need to learn that in order to get to their cool science techs and nifty buildings, they need to survive the early game. more often than not, that means you have to play the same early game and just try to get an edge in production or tech that keeps you alive and well.

I have been working on this. A solution to the "glass cannon" missile boats that all the cravers and other early rushers use. The only viable solution is to be ahead on flak research and realize it only takes, at most, 4 missiles of your own to kill their "glass cannons". So, use all that extra space for flaks and hopefully you have Optimal Structure for even more space. You're still going to lose ships , but if you can make them lose 2 or 3 to 1 of versus yours you'll eventually win that battle of attrition more often than not.

Euxenius wrote:
Have you tried doing torpedo against em as main/only weapon and heavy flak?

I have tried that but the battle was a draw... we both lost everything but as i had less fleets i couldn't afford to lose...

FireStorm wrote:
It depends on tech level of missiles and flak.If missile is higher tech, your flak will be less effective.Try yo use higher tech flak.

My friend was high tech than me (was 3x the size of my empire) I'll try that next time.

It depends on tech level of missiles and flak.If missile is higher tech, your flak will be less effective.Try yo use higher tech flak.

Have you tried doing torpedo against em as main/only weapon and heavy flak?