[starbase ogg]

Where to Base

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Last updated on 26 feb 1996.
Thesis A front-line SB when army flat is really STUPID.

Seen it myself. Army flat, SB front-line doing NOTHING useful for maybe 15mins ! Thats like having one player GB for 15 mins.

DrD

Comment During captaining a lot of ENL/INL games one of the things that was not always clear to me was 'where is the best place for a base?'. I don't agree with DrD that it is a question of current pops that defines where the base should be. It's more or less a question of relative strength/skills of the two teams. Nowadays, I think the following is a reasonable setup:
  1. The others will crush you: let it sit on your core agri. Boring but it will delay geno. As long as you have a scum who can deliver the armies that the base protects you won't loose too fast. If you cannot defend a core-base you deserve geno.
  2. The others are much better: let the base sit in front of agri closest to the front. Give it as much support as possible cause it is the key to your army-support and does support space-control in some way. But all is a question of how your team can break ogg-waves.
  3. The game is even: the only place for the base is the front. It should control what is hard to control because of lack of resources. Don't do this without a good base-player and a team that can break waves or the base will die really fast.
  4. We are better: sit on a frontline-repair or front-agri if you can live there.
  5. We crush them: go for tof. ;-)

Peter Pregler