What happens if you attack an enemy fleet and you kill all their ships within the firast round of attack?
Then ALL of the enemy ships get one round to fire back at you to. The "surviving with one hp" is the result if both fleets simultaneously destroy each other in the same round.
What exactly does First Strike do?
First Strike is the Arcean Super Ability which changes this rule. Any time an Arcean fleet attacks, ships that are destroyed
in the first round of shooting only don't get to fire back. Note that when Arceans are attacked, they lose this power. Therefore, a successful Arcean strategy is to never use defense, just load up on speed and weapons. They are great at hitting and running, swooping in to destroy fleets in one turn, then using the rest of their movement to fly back out of the enemy movement range, so that they are never attacked. However, the Arceans were the "Grand Galactic Losers" - so this power must not really be as good as it sounds...
The Terrans have only 3 customizable points
That is because they already have some points "spent" - that is selections made for you. To get their full customization ability you need to clear all of the points that have already been assigned. There is a button to do this helpfully placed on the point selection screen, although you could also do it by unselecting each power that was already chosen.
and aren't custom races supposedly inferior to default races?
It is true that they are slightly weaker in some areas, but overall custom races are my favorite choice to play
as. First, they get more customization points. Now they can't stack bonuses like the stock races - so they get much lower bonuses in each catagory. But with more points, you get a much larger spread of abilities. PLUS - you get to choose your super ability, so you are free to pick the super ability that most suits the bonuses and playstyle you are looking to attack the game with. I much prefer custom race with First Strike over Arceans, for instance, because of how I can stack up weapon and speed bonuses and still get a full economy suite of picks.
I do wish custom races were slightly strengthened, but that is not because I want to make the game easier by being able to make an uber race to play with. Rather, I have overall been disappointed with the performance of my custom race enemies. I have so much fun desigining who I will fight, it is frustrating when they underperform stock races under the control of the AI. If custom races had a few more points, or you could pick up more starting tech, my hope is I would be able to design even harder enemies that would be more and more of a challenge for me to beat (than any of the enemies currently are). I'm kind of sado-masochistic that way.
Hope that helps. So have you actually played your first game yet?
- Wyndstar
