Spectre Strats

The first is the capital ship player. this type of player takes a long time to get started and is usually quite weak in the opening stages of the game.

The second type is the giant swarms of strike craft player. this comes out much quicker but it is still quite weak in power until bombers are introduced.

The way i play is like so. this strat works with reasearch turned ON. and no injections. my first tier of research is cap ship drive. DUH. get out that resource controller. Build 3 research ships, and 2 more resource collector. when the controller is done. build 1 of those.

next research is corvette drive. which is also fast. then research fighter drive. If it is a high resource map you can bulid another resource team. and research covette chassis. although this may go against the way you play. researching widley gives a good base so that your fleet has no weakness.

Your next move depends on your opponnent. probe him. if we see strike craft. proceede to step Number 1. However. if we see that he has stepped up his resourceing. and there are very little strike craft. proceede to step Number 2. Or you can jump right to the Final Notes But why would you?

Strike Craft:
Well you probed him and found massive amounts of strike craft. That Poor fool. This limits our resourceing disrupting capabilities. However. we still have an available rout. ok your next tier of research should be obvious. Grav Well. As soon as it is done. build one. if you have the cash. two. now research friggate chassis so you can bulild assault frigs. Pump out 4 of these. even 4 will be able to decimate any attack he may throw at you. but more is always better. if you go balls to the wall on those assault frigs its even better because ion cannons are worthless against them. ion cannons have to be orentated towards their target. but the guns on a assault frig hit so hard. it will actually push the ion cannon frig off its target. now any attack he fronts will be worthless thanks to our friend the gravwell. set the well to garud the frigs. this way they will aways be safe inside the well. as soon as his strike craft are in range. turn on the grav well. use the tactical overlay to make things easier to see. The massive guns of the assault frig can now lay waste to those stupid strike craft. If he decides to build insane amounts of strike craft. go with cloak research, then perhaps some multi gun corvettes and definatly go with missile research. If he is a complete moron. you can always jump into his mother ship with some cloaked grav wells. you have to turn the wells on after you jump. but they can be cloaked already. Jump right infront of his ship where all his craft are lined up. And his mo ship shouldnt be able to jump because of the grav well. lay waste to the ships and the mo ship is yours for the taking. you are now the ultamate anti strike craft master.

Large Fleet:
You probed him and found that hes prepping his monsterous mega fleet. Step one. probe swarm. put some probes in the main resourceing areas. so we can see what we're up against. Step two. Disrupt harvesting at all costs. how does he plan on building that fleet with no money. there are a couple tricks here. first research cloak tech. then build salvage vettes and your own fleet. if you wanna be tricky you can work on attack bombers. anyways. heres a neat trick. have your salvage vettes dock with a support frig. while they are docked jump to where you wanna go. its jumping slavage vettes, genius. or you can just cloak them and walk them over. go for his collectors if its a smaller map. controller if its a huge map. you can also jump over some ion frigs and cloak them. this is a tad expensive though. so make sure you hit the jack pot.

Final Notes:
in all of this dont forget to defend your own collecting teams. defenders do well because they are cheap, and low on the reseach tree. but always keep them garuded or in range of reinforcements.