getting feudal to work

[da_hal]

i usually pick feudal/telepathic, and somewhere along the way tech-farm somebody, usually the psilons.

i've also tried creative, but uncreative seems to work the best.

i was wondering if anybody else had an interesting strat with feudal?

[vmxa1]

Tele/TransD/RHW/LHW/P +2/Fuedal/Rep

go on a blitz, no research.

[Kaptain Ken]

Yes, I still have to match or beat that map of yours with the Tele/Trans/Fuedal. I still have it, just have to take time to try again. Work and GF get in the way too much.

[vmxa1]

You can do it.

[CharlesBHoff]

Re: getting feudal to work

Originally posted by da_hal
i usually pick feudal/telepathic, and somewhere along the way tech-farm somebody, usually the psilons.

i've also tried creative, but uncreative seems to work the best.

i was wondering if anybody else had an interesting strat with feudal?

I use Creative with no problem with fedual and telephatic abilities.

[Urban Ranger]

Since the advantage of Fedual is you can build ships cheaply, this pretty much put you on a war footing, directly opposite to democratic.

[vmxa1]

With the 8 picks cost for creative, it is hard to tack on tele and have anything left increase production or research.
A tele does not need creative, it can just capture its way to domination.

[Whoha]

One failure Feudal and confed have is that when you scrap captured enemy ships they don't give a great deal of cash(only 2/3 or 1/3 the cost).

You benefit greatly from a good start with feudal(I got 5 planets, 1 ultra rich,2 rich,2 abundant, 2 desert,1 radiated,1 barren in my home system for my current game)

Late game, Confed can do better research then galactic unification due to morale.

[Urban Ranger]

Yup, Telepathic doesn't need to be Creative, you might as well put points in production and attack bonuses. Transdimensional and/or Stealth would be nice, too.

[da_hal]

i usually take all the ground combat minuses when i take telepathic, so i don't have that problem with scrapping enemy ships. to me, the biggest problem with fed is production. i can get almost everything fairly easily through trade and conquest, but the computer players hardly research factories.

fed + lith helps a bit early on, but can't really keep up after say turn 75 or so.

[vmxa1]

The Tele/TransD/RHW/LHW/P +2/Fuedal/Rep race is intended to not do any research at all. It will go on an all out blitz. Make only ships and outposts.
I would not want to use Feudal in any other way as it is a huge handicap to production/research.