ERmmm actually jinx like i said i lost because i let my asteroid bleed and i went to that ice to level my antorak. I wasn't thinking of the important of that asteroid field enough.
Sentinels are too expensive to build to counter LRMS early on, so you just make lrms, and out micro. You can't afford spending research cost which you could build 5 assailants for and then the cost of sentinels, you won't get enough sentinels until later on.
Advent is the only one that can counter LRM rush well IMO because disciples are cheap, and so are disciples if you need to make those, and they share the same techs.
Later in the game when i had that mixed sentinel and assailant fleet i was beating the LRM spam badly, but by then it was far to late.
Once you get RA that early, it IS uncounterable. It's not even possible to get to the point with Advent where you have your 80% mitigation, gaurdians, mothership, and fleet that's hard to kill so you can just sit there and soak up damage while slowly killing at the point you can get RA it seems to me.
It CAN be stopped.. but jinx was feeding money to him, and I attacked too soon. I should of waited until i had a frigate factory but despite having a smaller fleet I was pretty sure i would hurt him enough to not counter attack.
When you look at it, mil should ALWAYS beat civ.
+10% damage +10% life ships SHOULD be better than <10% more ships from your increased eco from upgrading extraction rates.
Having better ships and ability to counter faster SHOULD be better than them being able to make more of one ship you can beat with your stronger ships.
For the cost of 3 phase stabs you can make more than a dozen ships! So you should have a one dozen ship advantage.
The 7 civ stations cost a ton, many ships there when you only need 1 or 2 mil to attack, the difference in stations for all those ships is enough for another dozen ships.
Annddd the tech, that's enough for more than 20 more ships, no?
So if someones trying to get to RA, before they reach it, you SHOULD be 50 ships ahead of them... unless you just got out-played.
Of course, if you see someone (a vasari) building a 3rd civ station early on you should be attacking them right away. You shouldn't already have a resource advantage with your just having 1 or 2 mil. So they should no longer be trying to get RA. You don't just sit there trying to continue on getting RA while being rushed.
But HuntingX had a good opportunity to continue on.. tarin didn't get the chance to attack until right after RA was up, ships were already coming in. I'm not sure he would of taken Hunting if he attacked earlier even.
Theory wise, RA is easily countered if you take it out before it's up. You should have 50 more ships.
That's not to say that build might not be a bit broken though. Wouldn't hurt to change RA so it scales by how early you get it (Ie for the first hour it only makes skirmishers and assailants and at a slower rate, then longer into the game it makes more ship types, or it only makes ships you have researched so you don't get enforcers unless you have the mil for it too)
