Faction Tactics: Gaians

[Snowflake]

Originally posted by Jac de Molay
I also had some questions about worm capturing with the Gaians.

How many "free" mindworms/Iods can you capture and use? Are there some factors/formulae that dictate the amount of free native life you can have?

I seem to have temporarily misplaced my manual, and cant find anything in the datalinks about it.

thanks
jac

So far I have heard two versions.
1. If it's captured in a distance from any of your bases, then it's free. Don't remember seeing how far it has to be though.
2. If a base that belong's another faction is closer to the windworm than any of yours then its free.

I assume you know that if you have a pact brother or sister all of your forces can be free of support from either of you by switching their home base. Of couse I still haven't tried it because this will be considered a cheat.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by vitamin j
Good points. The Gaians are my favorite faction - I think even without free market they can hang with any of the factions. Just a minor quibble: you CAN capture natives with less than a full move point remaining. I've done it many times.

True. I think most people assume that they have failed on their capture attempt when they get the "less than a full MP" warning. But if you say ok and press on, you can still capture.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by HongHu

So far I have heard two versions.
1. If it's captured in a distance from any of your bases, then it's free. Don't remember seeing how far it has to be though.

AFAIK this works just like the units that you receive sometimes from pods. At first they are all free, and later on they are likely to attach themselves to the nearest one of your bases for support purposes. It seems to me to be based on numbers (eg your Xth worm or other unit needs support), but I don't know for sure.

Originally posted by HongHu

2. If a base that belong's another faction is closer to the windworm than any of yours then its free.

This is true.

[Santiago_Claus]

On land units are "independent" if captured / discovered outside of your territorial boundary.

On water I've no clue.