Empires Of Planets 4

The Robotic Imperium

Race Attributes

• Do not need to eat food
• Training centers do not require food
• Training centers require Kerria Crystals to train new troops
• Cities do not require food
• Zero growth rate
• New colonists are built from tritanium and has a mass of 1 ton each
• Insectoid nests build new robots
• Insectoid nests require insectoid natives
• Only one ship has a top speed above 90
• Pod speed of only 20
• They have alchemy ships
• No minesweepers
• Not able to build alien hulls
• No one else can use your hull plans
• A cheap type 1 fighter
• Robot fighters immune to hitting Barbitic minefields during movement
• High mining rate
• Ord plants produce double the normal amount of ord
• Nova Barbitic minefields do double normal damage to enemy ships
• Nova Barbitic minefields do double damage to all ships that are in the field when they are detonated
• Nova Barbitic minefields also act as Gravitonic minefields
• If a Nova Barbitic is destroyed by a Barbitic detonation it will also explode
  (Note: Only fields with centers within the first's radius will explode)
• Robot owned ships are highly resistant to Nova Barbitic and Barbitic detonations (Barbitics cause 1% hull damage and 2% system damage)
  (Nova Barbitics cause 2% hull damage and 4% system damage)
• Nova Barbitics make 100 points more sensor noise than normal Barbitics
• All Barbitic minefields belonging to a Robot are Nova Barbitic
• No other race can lay a Nova Barbitic field, even if they own a Cat's Paw
• Robots can use enemy ship designs to lay Nova Barbitics
• Robots can sweep cloaked mines, including cloaked Barbitics, if have a mine sweeper ship
• Robots can see cloaked mines out to a range of 150 LY
• R27 Raider Fighter has a sand shield built in
• Will not work under captivity
• Can not be assimilated
• You can build jumpgates
• No super weapons
• Ord plant produces double ord at the same cost

Unique Units

• Fuel Dradle Mines for fuel 10 kt ore each per turn (yields 5 kt)
  

Missing Base Buildings

• Raid Shelter
• Med Lab
• Ion Cannon
• Base Shield

Special Base Buildings

• Gun Zero Costs 30000 to build has a range of 250 ly and can target all ships of hull mass 100 and above in range. Uses 100 ord per shot per ship and needs at least 10 robot colonists on the base for the gun to fire. The gun has 23% odds of hitting ships with a hull mass under 901 kt, it has 40% odds against ship with a hull mass between 901 and 1500, the gun has 65% odd of hitting ships with a hull mass greater than 1500. The weapon will do 15% to 90% hull damage per hit. A 100kt hull will take 90% damage and a 850kt to 1700kt hull will take 15% hull damage. Ships with hull masses of over 1700kt mass will take 49% damage per hit. This device can not be used on ships that are fully cloaked. It can be used on ships with active cloaking devices that are generating more than 400 units of sensor noise and ships that have been made visible by a laser mine detonation.
• Insectoid Nest Converts small soft warm blooded natives into two insectoid hatchlings, mines fuel. Builds up to 100,000 new robots a turn using 100 kt of tritanium. This is the only way to build new robots. Attracts and converts 3% of all enemy colonists within 100 ly into 2 new insectoids each. Robot, Crystal, and Solorian colonists can not be converted. The enemy will not get any message that this is going on. Insectoids are difficult for the the Cyborg to assimulate, it takes 6 insectoids to make just one Cyborg drone.

Ship Attributes

• The Cybernaut is the only war ship with a top speed above 90, it can go 120
• Cat's Paw can lay Nova Barbitic minefields
• All warship are made out of pure Duranium metal
• Scanners are weaker than most
• The Vltava can build jumpgates

Ship Special Devices

• Soil Sterilizer: Destroys the soil of the planet under the ship so that farming can not take place.
• Alchemy Device Convert supplies to minerals (2700 supplies = 675KT of metals / turn)
• Scalar Wave Damper: Reduces the stress levels of the planet under the ship. Very useful in making planets useless to the Crystals who produce food and ord from planetary stress. This device is really handy in keeping the Hyper Dimensional Delta Levels in check (in other words prevents planets from exploding while you mine them hollow with your Vltavas).
• Native Dust Off: Loads up to 40000 of the natives on the planet under the ship onto a native life pod and places the pod in one of the ship's empty pod bays. This takes place after movement. The device will not remove natives from a base, it only works on natives that are on the surface of the planet outside of a base. The device will only work if you have an empty pod bay on the ship.
• Eye Of Madagon: Causes all Chupanoids in the base under the ship to have 300% happiness and all Chupanoids join the base. The device has a range of 10ly and only works if the ship has under 10% system damage. The device will also destroy food and kill amorphous natives out to a range of 250 ly. Food on planets bases and pods are all in danger of being destroyed.
• Jump Gate Builder: If the ship has 10000mc and 1000 molybdenum on board the ship will build a jump gate when this device is on. The gate is built after movement. All gates have a 3 letter code, which is the code needed to travel too the gate. Jump gates can only be destroyed by anti-matter maul super weapons that have set the gate as a kill target and have parked on it. To travel to another jump gate park your ship on any gate and set one of the ship's command codes to the code of the gate you wish to travel to. Jump gate travel happens after normal movement. When you come out the other end of the gate you will not have any scanner readings of the area and any enemy in the area will not have seen you yet. You have one turn to move your ship before you are seen by the enemy. Jump gates are very hard to defend due to the fact anyone can jump out of one from another gate are any time if they know the gate code, so be very careful where you build them.
• 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 only limit to the amount that can be taken is the size of the ship's cargo hold. 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. The device will not mine fuel or fuel ore.
• 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 5% 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.
• 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.
• Food To Supply Converter: When on all the food on the ship is turned into supplies. One food unit is turned into one supply unit. You do not need food so why not turn it all into supplies and then later you can turn it into metals using the Alchemy device
• Mobile Fighter Factory: Builds fighters in space using just cash. The device will add fighters to any wing docked with the ship that does not have the full number that can fit in the fighter bay. If the ship has any empty fighter bays new wings will be formed and the bays will be filled with new fighters.

Ship Super Weapons

• None

Playing As

Metals, money and credits are not going to be a problem. You do not have to worry about food or fuel. You have all the nightmare weapons at your command to sweep the galaxy of all life. You have some of the weakest fighters in the game but that is not a problem you will have the money to build all that you will need. You have all the tools to drive hyperspace races insane.

You can lay overlapping Nova Barbitic minefields in a area of space you know hyper jumpers to be using, when they get caught in the Nova Barbitic field because of its anti-hyper jump powers just blow the field and take the ship out. If your ships happen to be in the field during the explosion they will take no more than 2% hull damage per Nova Barbitic that you detonate. You do not have any minesweeper ships so unless you can trade for them or capture them you are going to have to use your Nova Barbitics to sweep enemy minefields.

To win destroy your enemy's power to produce food, use your soil sterilizer to destroy all the farm land on as many planets as possible. Without food most your enemies can not grow. If you are fighting the Crystals use your scalar wave damper to reduce the stress of high stress planets to the point that the Crystal hyperlathes are useless, that will cut off all their food supplies and source of ord.

You have zero growth so there is not any reason not to build all the training centers you can and produce as many troops as possible.

Avoid attacking with colonists and crew if you can. Mine for metals and use as much of the tritanium as you can spare to build more robots at your insectoid nests.

Look for and gather up as many natives as possible to use as food for your insectoids. Insectoid nest turns warm blooded natives into insectoids. This includes Humanoids, Bovinoids, Reptilians, Avians, Amphipians and Ghipsoldals. Conversion rate is 4 new bugs for every native.

Insectoid Nests also attract colonists from enemy bases to your base. They will draw in 3% of all enemy colonists within 100 ly and convert them to new insects. Each enemy colonist yields 4 new bugs. There are a few exceptions, the Cyborg can only yield 1/2 a bug each and Cystals, Robots and Solorian are completely immune. The nests will also draw in 1% of the enemy colonists within 400 ly.

The Insectoid Nests also generate money, for each enemy colonists that comes in from the 100 ly range you get 1/10 a mc and the ones from up to 400 ly give you 1/30 of a mc.

When you are attracting enemy colonists to your base with a Insectoid Nest only you will get a message about the event, the enemy might not notice anything is wrong.

Gather up chupanoid natives after you have made them happy using the Eye of Madagon device and send pods of them to your enemies home world. If you can not get to the enemy's homeworld with pods of chupanoids just get as close as you can and blow the pod up. The chupanoids will scatter and become very upset at the same time. They will land on the enemy planets and begin eating all their food. The less food your enemy has the better.

Build terraformers just to mess up the climate of the planet so that your enemies that do not have access to terraformers can not farm the planet. You goal is to just sweep through space turning all the tritanium you find into more robots and all the duranium you find into new ships.

Carry pods of fuel dradle ground units to mine for fuel on the edges of your push forward into enemy space.

Use your Q Tankers to carry fuel and fresh fighters to the front line ships. If you find or build a jumpgate cover the gate with Nova Barbitic mines and leave a few cheap ships around to scan for incoming enemy ships. If an enemy fleet comes through the gate blow the Nova Barbitics and destroy the whole fleet all at once. There is nothing that they can do to escape that trap. After you get done with an area of space there should be nothing left that an enemy can use.

One important factor that the Robots need to use to win the game is the Shokazul Pulse. This exotic tech will stop the growth of all enemy colonists. If you unlease this on your enemies early enough in the game they will not be able to out grow you population wise. Sadly this device also makes your insectoids hibhernate. While the Pulse is having its effect you can still be mining and storing tritanium on your bases and building more insectoid nests. Then for one turn you can drop the use of the Shokazul Pulse and have a population explosion, then go back to using the Shokazul Pulse.

To make life easier for your ships buy the excotic tech Plasma Manifold A. This tech will greatly reduce the amount of fuel your ships will burn. Later on in the game buy Plasma Manifold B and your fuel useage will drop to almost nothing.

Playing Against

If you are going through a jumpgate and you do not know what is going to be on the other side, send a scout ship through first to check for Nova Barbitic minefields, because if you send your fleet blindly into that mess they are going to all die in the massive chain reaction explosion that Nova Barbitics can deliver.

If you can lay Barbitic minefields go into Robot space and lay your own barbitic fields over the top of his. If the Robots do not own a mine sweeper the only way to destory your minefield is to detonate his.

If the Robots cover a major base and fleet with Nova Barbitcs attack it with minelayers, get in there and drop mines all around the base so that the fleet can not escape and then push inward with more mines until the area is completely covered with mines.

Do what you can to protect the natives from being turned into insectoid food. Protect all planets with high levels of tritanium, because if you do not all that metal will be turned into money producing robots and his growth will explode.

The Robots are a race that you must attack, if left alone they will overpower you completely.

Attack him with groups of fighter wings, his fighter defenses are very weak, his fighters are weak, his ships do not have many point defense systems.

Take out their ships and pods as quickly as possible before they can use them to grow. Attack them with sand casters to destroy their fighters. Make it a point to destroy any Robot minesweeper ship that you find and make it a special point to destroy any Robot base that has high numbers of insectoid natives.

Expect the Robots to be coming after your food supplies, be ready to fight.

Take the fight to him, if you can keep him busy defending his worlds he will not have time to to attack you.

Send in mine sweepers to keep his area of space clear of minefields, with no minefields or few minefield in his space he will feel very nervous about enemy fleets hyper jumping in and will most likely pull his forces back.

Keep your large ships away from his Gun Zero planets.

If you can keep him boxed in and living in fear and on the defensive his growth will be slowed greatly.

Natural Enemies

• The Federation: Cheap, evasive and fast ships
• The Rebels: Their fighters will eat your fighters alive
• The Colonies Of Man: Fighters will eat your fighters alive. Colonial High Guard can destroy your nests and gun zero units. The Virgo class can fly through your minefields. However your Gun Zeros will blow Virgos straight to hell.
• The Stormers: Victorious Class can carry a Nemesis Torpedo super weapon which can destroy all the fighters in a fleet in a single shot! Glory device ships can destroy your minefields.
• The Crystals: Mines, Mines, and more Mine! They have gravitonic, webs, lasers and barbitics! And you do not own any minesweeping ships!
• The Birdmen: They can send in cloaked ships with super laser that can outrun in normal space most Robotic ships.
• The Privateers: Can rob you blind by stealing contraband and megacredits. Their ships are so small and fast that they are almost impossible to catch.

Robot Race Stats