Moreover, these colonists earn a BC each turn, whereas each Hydrofarm eats 2BCs each turn.Perhaps the toughest choice in the game is between Auto Labs and Cybertronic Computers. Sakkra and Klackon are the hardest races to fight against in my opinion and they both got good population growth so your right, that is a key for winning.

It also has a highish damage range of 7 - 10. What equipment can last a long time on a ship whereas what items are refit fodder? The author hopes that this guide will help those players who wish to play human opponents online. Early Access Phase 3 - Community Recap #1, Contest – Design Your Race Propaganda Poster, Early Access Phase 2 - Community Recap #2, Planet Characteristics in Master of Orion, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 2.2 GHz, nVidia 240, ATI 4650, Intel Integrated HD3000 or better. Some Leaders also give a "Commando" bonus to boarding parties.

Robo MinersPast this point, it is usually best to get all remaining tech worth 250 Research Points (RPs) or less, before continuing on to Zortium Armor.The Opening Sequence, Pre-Warp Technology UniversesThe opening sequence for Pre-Warp Technology games is broadly similar to Average Technology games with a few extra technologies to research. Its more a 'game setting' then a race option.Non-creative games offer more strategy I feel.

The idea is to use your smaller planets as population factories, and ship the population they generate to your larger planets where it will do the actual work of your empire. These weapons are good because they tend to have really good damage once the halving of the shield is factored in.

There is no right answer here. Lithovore is also a viable pick: it does not increase the number of colonists a planet can hold, but by eliminating farmers, it does give you more usable population.Government. However, I do beat it regularly in the Huge,Impossible mode. You might place Neutron Blasters, which cannot be made Armor Piercing, in the top rows of your beam ship to blow down his shields and then Armor Piercing Auto-Fire Mass Drivers in the lower rows to inflict the actual damage to his vessels.Concerning beam weaponry, I recommend a mix of all three weights (Heavy, Normal and Point Defense) on your Battleships.

Auto Factories6. Tactical or strategic combat.

Particle Beam (needs to be captured from Orion or the Antarans) - dmg 31 x 4.

They also have a decent production bonus allowing for easier construction of larger ships. March 7th, 2016 and this is still my favorite MOO2 guide.Was there never much interest in small galaxies? Whoever you are, I assume you have recently tried an online game because of this conclusion:Well... this strategy guide is certainly nice although it doesnt give all the information necessary to beat an online veteran.I agree that by just reading this guide you won't have enough knowledge to beat an experienced player in the first games (when he plays seriously without any handicap). With Class 2 shields, the Auto Blaster would do 24 and the Heavy Fusion 15. There are no hard and fast rules here, but it helps to have general guidelines. But for early-game rushing it can be a viable strategy. One of the further problems with using fighters is that they remain terribly vulnerable to ship explosions. Once the Auto Factory is built, then move all population into production and keep them there until you have built your last colony base in the home system.Once all colony bases in the home system have been built and Labs and Auto Factories researched and installed, it is time to start building outposts and colony ships to start expanding your empire.Technology PathsThe specific technology path to follow varies by player preference, race picks and player strategy (early attack versus long development, for instance). This is strictly forbidden.Reason: This is considered cheating. Again, always use all of the mods.The next achievable military configuration can come from either of two tracks. Even so, your techniques have introduced me to a new style of playing. Master of Orion revives the iconic 4X strategy gameplay (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate) pioneered by the original Master of Orion franchise.

Auxiliary Ships are made to draw enemy fire or otherwise be extremely hard to kill, rather than to inflict damage. Androids do not produce BCs like normal colonists, so don't build a spaceport on a planet that is mainly populated by Androids.Military TechnologyOne of the most commonly asked questions from new players concerns what weaponry to put in ships early on, versus the mid-game or the end game.

Also, it is bypassed by the Achilles Targeting Unit.

A MIRV EMG ECCM missile carries 4 warheads, the ECCM in the missile cuts avoidance in half which means than even in the best scenario at least 2 warheads will hit the engine (of each missile that makes it thru), A handful (or less) of destroyers can kill an Eel. A Production Race can generate all of its research by settling a large number of planets and making sure every one has all available science buildings in place. The down-sides are that Pd-weapons can't harm planetary defenses, and Class-III shields generally make this type of design obsolete. Kali is a mature community and very few of us take any pleasure in beating new players.

You just can't gather 90% of your fleet to obliterate the neighboring human player on the right, because if you leave colonies unguarded chances are the human on your left might attack you as soon as he gets the combat message involving you and your other neighbor.5) Augmented Engines gives 2 benefits: it gives you +5 more initiative (which may cause that even though I was attacked, I still fire first) and +25 Beam Defense.

Research Labs4.

But in general i should say its sad that these "Veterans" put in place this culture of "we are better because we play online moo2 so much longer" - first it will prevent online players from joining the community in cases and second its just dishonorable and opportunist. Of course, if you negate this option of the game with stupid rules... You want to play Orion without being a cry baby that cant cope with politics, go play starcraft.

They're the most efficient beams I know.Do we suppose the online games don't get sofar as to get Hyper-X, Plasma Cannon, High energy focus etc..? Great strategy guide. This ship class represents specialized designs meant to destroy stubborn stationary planetary defenses.

It goes without saying every ship should have Battle Pods, because more space is good, unless of course it makes the ship too expensive to build. Galactic experts in Propulsion which allows them to develop better engines faster and move faster in and out of combat and to move farther out of it. ... Got the 1.31 patch and the 1.40+ patch, my issue is on the colony build screen, the refit and design ship buttons are darkened out and can't be selected. Or what is the tactics of missile fleet vs. missile fleet fight?

News that guides you on your path to conquer the stars. Assault Shuttles have a further advantage that they don't require the enemy to be immobile.

The problem for non-Warlord races is the limited number of command points, of which many small ships will quickly consume.

This condition usually ends after a random number of turns, but in the meantime it gives the owning player an invulnerable outpost he cannot lose to enemy action. This is a bad tradeoff. In fact if you follow the online guide he skips missile base for automated factories. One solution is to build a fleet of solely Battleships, since those are available right from the beginning. Making a strategy guide for MOO II is liking claiming the absolute recipe for pasta, not going to happen outside of your head.Everything in the game is useful, every single little thing. He had Mentar with battlestation (maybe), missile base.

You guys along with LordBrazen and the rest of the #moo2 community have been instrumental in keeping this game alive for almost two decades. Note that they also don't have a spending advantage on Computers, so their +4 in targeting will likely be passed by the Darloks, Silicoids, Meklars, and Psilons as the game progresses.