Empires Of Planets 4

The Solar Federation

Race Attributes

• Great Income
• High Happiness
• Great Growth Rate
• Okay mining rate
• Very poor troop training rate
• Very poor high guard training rate
• Very poor crew combat rating
• Very weak spying powers
• No cloaking ships
• Strong anti-cloaking tech
• Resistant to enemy boarding attacks

Unique Units

• Agrovator: A special farming unit that doubles the food production of your farms. Each agrovator will add one extra food and 3 extra megacredits to your base. A planet with 100 farms and 100 agrovators will generate 200 food units and 300 mc per turn from farming. Having more agrovators than you have farms does you no good at all. They will pay for themselves in 17 turns with just the extra money that they earn themselves.

Missing Base Buildings

• <None>

Special Base Buildings

• Resort (Improves happiness of colonists and natives)

Ship Attributes

• Many ships to choose from
• Very cheap ships
• All ships can board enemy ships in a hostile boarding action, even without a boarding laser.
• Loki has a tachyon scanner that will detect most cloaked ships (Birdmen Darkwing and Resolute Class ships are immune, unless your Loki has a high guard ranger on board, then you have a good chance of detecting the cloaked enemy ship)
• Alaska Class Refinery Ship processes ore and can make fuel from metals.
• Merlin Class Alchemy Ship will produce metals from supply units
• The Terra Class Starbase can mine 1000 kt of metal a turn with its laser drill.
• The Super Nova Man-of-War is a very cheap ship for the amount of firepower it packs
• The Super Nova Man-of-War has a barbitic mine dropper and mine sweeper
• All Fed ships can use their ship evasive factor to avoid being hit by Tachyon Guns and Streak Missiles, all other races get no help at all from their evasive factor
• Fed Phaser Beams have a +40% chance of hitting the enemy
• Fed Photon Torpedoes get a +50% chance of hitting an enemy target
• Fed Photon Torpedoes resistant to enemy PD systems, 40% or more will always get through enemy PD systems
• Fed Large weapons all get a +10% chance of hitting an enemy target
• The Feds are immune to the Disruptor life killing bonus
• Fed ships can not be boarded unless the ship have over 50% hull or system damage
• Fed ships are immune to the Mason Gun's special energy drain power that steals power from the target ship's large weapons.
• Highly resistant to enemy High Guard killing Fed High Guard
• Fed ships can repair their ship during combat, they can raise shields, fix the hull, repair weapons and repair the system damage during combat if they have at least 1 High Guard Ranger on board the ship

Ship Special Devices

• Tachyon Scanner: Only works if the ship has less than 25 system damage. Has a range of 100 LY and works before movement. The scanner causes almost all objects in the area to have be show up better on scanners. The sensor image of anything in the area is increased by 250 points. The only ships immune from the Tachyon scanner are the Darkwing and Resolute Classes. If you have a high guard ranger on your ship there is a chance that even the Darkwing and Resolute will be detected.
• Barbitic Mine Dropper: Converts ordnance units into Barbitic mines and drops them. Barbitic mines are powerful anti-ship mines that also can be used to destroy enemy minefields. When a barbitic minefield is detonated it does damage to all ships in the field and destroys most minefield in the radius of the field. When a minefield is set to detonate it will do so before all movement starts. Blowing a Barbitic minefield will completely clear the area of mines and allow safe travel through the area. All minefields have a limited life time of around 20 turns before they run out of power and disappear. Any ship belonging to another race moving through your barbitic minefield risks hitting a mine and taking massive damage. Minefields can be stacked on top of one another. Ships traveling speed 12 or less are safe from hitting barbitic mines.
• Long Range Mine Detector: Detects all minefields in a 500 LY radius that are not cloaked.
• Mine Sweeper Array: Destroys one enemy minefield or recovers one minefield belonging to your race converting it into ordnance units and stores the ordnance on your ship. You do not collect ordnance from enemy minefield that you sweep. The device will not sweep cloaked minefields.
• Laser Mining Drill: Extracts mineral ore from the core of the planet under the ship and converts it into metals and stores the metals in the ship's cargo hold. The Terra Class Starbase can mine 1000kt of ore a turn. The drill increases the climate of the planet by 0.3 a turn and the HD stress of the planet by 10 to 60 points. The device has no effect on ore or metal that is sitting on the planet's surface.
• Boarding Laser: Only used when you are transporting your colonists, troops, crew, or high guard to an enemy ship as a hostile boarding action. The boarding laser helps your troops take over the enemy ship. It cuts holes in the enemy ship doing between 1% and 300% hull damage to the target depending on the size of the target ship. It kills up to 10% of the enemy crew, 40% of the enemy colonists, and 10% of the enemy troops. You need to beam over 1 of your guys for every 5 enemies you want to take out. There are 200 movement phases and combat will not start until phase 50 so during the first one quarter of movement you have time to fly past an enemy ship, transport over a boarding party, rip the enemy ship up with the boarding laser and get away back out to deep space. To use the device just turn it on and transfer your crew to the enemy target using your transporters. The ship using the boarding laser must have less than 50% system damage or the device will not work. The device will not kill Crystal crew and colonists, but it will still allow you to get your boarding party onto the Crystal ship. The device will not against Fed ships with less then 50% shield, system and hull damage. If a Fed ship has more than 50% damage in any of those three areas the boarding laser will work.
• Ore Processing: When on, the ship grabs ore from any pod in the area ( including ones that do not belong to you), any planet you are over and any of your own bases. The ore is converted into metals and stored in the ship's cargo hold. You can have the metals automatically transported down to a base you own if you are over one with the ship command code BDM (Beam Down Metals). Two ore units yield one metal unit. The only limit as to how much can be processed in a turn is the size of the ship's cargo hold. Ore processing costs nothing.
• DTMS-N fuel Converter: The device when on will convert 10 supply units into 1 kt of fuel. It can also convert 1 duranium, 1 tritanium, or 1 molybdenum into 1 fuel unit. The converter only uses metals and supplies that are in the ship's cargo hold. It will stop processing when the ship's fuel tank is full. If the ship uses the command code "BDF" all but 60 kt of fuel will be beamed down to the planet below.
• Alchemy Forge: When on, it grabs supply units from junk pods and resupply pods belonging to anyone, plus supplies from planets and bases that you own and converts the supplies to metals. Twelve supply units yield 1 duranium, 1 tritanium, and 1 molybdenum. Control switches on the ship can limit the process to just one metal type if you wish.
• Global Icer: Cools a planet to climate level 50. Uses 1 kt of fuel per climate level change. Can change at a rate of up to 5 climate levels a turn. The ship burns 5 kt of fuel to change the climate by 5 units
• Global Warmer: Warms a planet to climate level 50. Uses 1 kt of fuel per climate level change. Can change at a rate of up to 5 climate levels a turn. The ship burns 5 kt of fuel to change the climate by 5 units
• Holodeck: Keeps the crew happy. Can increase the happiness of the ship by up to 10 points a turn.
• Bioscanner: Its primary use is detecting native life on planets out to a distance of 700 LY. When on the bioscanner's findings will be reported in the ship's log. Using the scanner does not make the ship any more visible to the enemy than normal.

Ship Super Weapons

• Protomatter Cannon: The protomatter cannon can turn destroyed planets back into normal planets. The new planets tend to be unstable with high stress levels, but with very high soil levels. To use the weapon to turn restore a destroyed planet just park the ship over the destroyed planet and turn on the super weapon switch. The weapon requires 1000 ord units to fire. The weapon will do massive damage to enemy ships in combat, they will destroy most ships with less than 2000 shield units and 2000 armor units.

Playing As

The Solar Federation is a powerful economy race. They have cheap ships, with many different designs to choose from. They are a very straight forward race and do not rely on special tricks to achieve victory. They have a high income rate, high growth rate, and a high happiness level. The Solar Federation can build every type of standard ground base building.

The Solar Federation has a defense for almost anything that the enemy can throw at them. The Loki Class Destroyer has a tachyon scanner that can decloak almost every type of hard to see or cloaked ship except for the most advanced Birdmen designs, be sure to use Loki's to detect cloaked ship that might try to sneak up on you. If you must go against monster enemy ships the Super Nova Man-o-War is a great ship to use, it is a cheap ship for a ship of its size and power. If you are going against an enemy that likes to fire masses of photon torpedoes it would be a great idea to have several Loki Class ships with holodecoys escort the Super Nova ships. The Loki can carry 6 holo decoy point defense systems. Just one or two Loki's using holodecoys will drop the accuracy of enemy photon torpedo fire to under 20% very quickly. The Loki's will also come in handy if you need to sweep or drop mines.

Minerals are very easy to come by. When you find a planet that is rich in minerals simply build a Terra Class Starbase over it The starbase can mine1000 kt of minerals a turn. If you run out of minerals to mine you can just build Merlin Class Alchemy ships and transform supplies into metals. If you need to fuel you can build an Alaska Class Refinery and transform excess metals or supplies into fuel.

The Solar Federation is the king of food production. You can build large numbers of farms very quickly using your agrovators, then you can double production of food from your farms using the agrovators. Your Supernova Class can carry a protomatter cannon that can be used to turn destroyed planets back into normal planets. Newly formed planets tend to have very rich soil allowing a great number of farms to be built. Because you have so much food you should feel free to build a great number of cities on many worlds. You should have at least a few "breeder worlds" with few mines, no cities and no training centers to maximize your colonist growth rate. As these world build up their populations to very high levels you should move the colonists off to other planets with lots of cities.

Your economy should be able to out grow the economies of all other races. The longer the game lasts the more powerful your economy will be compared to the other races because of your high growth and tax rates. If you really kick your economy into overdrive buy the exotic cloning tech and increase your growth rate to an extreme level.

Playing Against

The Federation is a economic powerhouse, not only do they have a high income, high growth rate they have cheap ships. You will have a hard time out producing them when it comes to ship production. The larger Federation starships are very powerful and far cheaper than ships of equal power that other races can put out. Their special farming unit allows them to produce food at twice the normal rate, allowing them to support double to number of cities that other races can. The Federation will become stronger and stronger as time goes by, as compared to other races.

What you need to do is kill their colonists, the sooner the better. Their troop combat skills are very lacking and their troop training rate is very poor. If you have strong ground combat skills use it to capture their outer low population worlds.

Send in many scanner ships and keep track of as many of their ships as possible. Keep track of any major fleet movements. Use that information to avoid their main fleet body and attack their planets.

Mass your fleet and take out their planets one by one in force. If you have cloaking ships try to sneak up on unguarded Federation planets and take them out. If you have hyperjumping ships, do quick surprise attacks on their lightly guarded high population planets. Once you knock out their high population planets then you can deal with their remaining fleet.

Natural Enemies

• Birdmen: They have cloaking ships that are immune to the Loki's tachyon scanners sneak up on to your planets and blow them apart killing all your colonists. Be sure to lay minefields to help slow down the cloaked ships..
• Evil Empire: The Evil Empire can jump 700 ly in a single turn and drop assault pods of very powerful ground combat units. They can jump in with a super laser firing ship and blow you planets to bits. Their ships have a massive shield bonus.
• Privateers: They travel fast and will steal your food, cash, and contraband.

Federation Race Stats