Starbase help please

[tetley]

If you're doing it preemptively, do you really need the starbase defenses first? You've already got ships in the area to defend it.

[bonscott]

If you don't all it take is one shot and your starbase is dead.

[tetley]

I did an offensive military starbase last night and it kicked butt. The 3 constructors (base, an beam weapons module, and a defense module) were priced about the same as 3 additional fighters, and the starbase added about the same amount of firepower to the fight as 3 more fighters would have. But here was the difference: at the end of the battle, I still had the starbase. Had I thrown more cheap ships into the fray I still would have won, but some of the ships would have died. Now I have a defensive military starbase left to show for it. Very nice.

Also, I noticed that if I add just one point of deflector, the +1/each defense bonus from the starbase was added to ALL THREE defense types. In other words, if I have 0/0/0 defense I get no bonus, but just 1/0/0 defense and the starbase boosts it to 2/1/1. This is big. That's 4 total defense vs. laser. My guys were tanks.

This is MUCH more bang for your buck, if you can just lure the other guy's ships into your radius. I wish I had known this vs. the Dread Lords.