I have refined and perfected this strategy from over 100 games, and let me tell you, it has succeeded about 95% of the time. Although lesser players have tried to copy it for ages, none have succeeded... until now, as I finally divulge the build order for the flak+kol+ankylon rush. Only a couple of top players have ever beat me while I was using this strat, among them sins gods such as huymac, spockimpossible, and Kbroke.
NOTE: Only applies to 5v5 skilled games
1. Play as TEC Loyalist
2. Build a Kol as your first capital ship, select flak burst
3. Build two military labs
4. Scuttle cap factory when Kol is finished building
5. Colonize nearby planets using Kol+colony frig and cobalt+colony frig+turret
6. Research and flak and repair platform
7. By this time, you will have made contact with the enemy. Engage on YOUR planet only, as repair platform increases flak survivable by by 48.7% (tested and verified by RespawnTitan). Make sure to micro using the special alley sweeper technique. Details on how to do that can be found in the "proof flak is OP" thread.
8. Your kol would have leveled up by now. Alternate between flak burst and forcefield. GRG sucks.
9. 99% of the time, your enemy will spam light frigates. DO NOT build LRM, instead continue to pump out flak. Flak actually counters light frigates if you micro them right. Kill the enemy fleet, but DO NOT chase after them to their fortified planets. Instead, find a good choke and start to fortify there. This is very important. Also, don't try to snipe their capital ship. Flak works better against frigates and cruisers.
10. Drop down two military labs and build a titan and the factory. If you don't have enough money, ask your eco player for more.
11. Here comes the hard part. Since you've sunk so much of your own and your allies' money on the titan, the enemy will have a BIG fleet advantage. Although you can take comfort in the fact that you've killed so much of it before, that is still not enough to overcome the gap. I recommend building a starbase and turtling until your ankylon comes out. Build mines if you have to and scuttle any turrets you've used to expand. 99% of the failures of this strategy comes during this step.
12. Once your titan comes out, immediately select two fighters, disruption matrix and one health upgrade. You don't have enough AM for FD yet.
13. Slowly push your enemy out of the world you are fighting. By now you should have a fairly decent starbase, so go tell your ankylon to level up in the pirates base. Your titan should reach level 3 when that's done. Up DM, FM, health, and weapons, in that order.
14. Check how your allies are doing. If they're doing bad, that means you need to push on your side. Immediately attack your enemy frontline worlds. They wont be able to resist very well, unless they have a titan of their own (which they won't, since if you followed step 9 correctly, they would have spent all their money on rebuilding their fleet).
If they're doing good, you still need to push but you can start diverting funds toward building trade ports and Novas.
15. Build hoshiokos with demo bots, as well as two more kols.
16. By now, the enemy eco player would have started fleeting up to protect their failing frontline player. But guess what? Your army is now practically invulnerable. The only things that can counter the ankylon are corvettes and strikecraft, but thanks to your flak and kol, they get shredded in seconds (flak vs fighters is the hardest counter in the game). They might try building heavy cruisers, but your demo bots will disable their attacks, allowing you to kill them with impunity.
17. You should start building your Novas. Once the enemy team heads the siren blazing that signals a new superweapon is building, 7/10 they will quit right them and there. If not, it doesn't matter, you've almost won anyway by this point. Just sit back and blow up their homeworlds from afar, and watch their income drop massively.
18. Unlike before, CHASE the enemy to their fortified worlds. If they have a SB, DO NOT engage it without your titan, as flak are terrible against structures and your opponent will red button his SB, killing everything in sight. First, send your titan against it and the enemy fleet alone, its nigh-unkillable at this point and disruption matrix can prevent red button from casting. After you do that, take your entire fleet and kill the SB. Make sure to spread your flak around so it does damage to both the SB and enemy fleet.
19. Mop up any remaining enemy planets. Help your allies if they need you.
20. Congratulations, you've won the game!
Right, because the 100 instances of KARMA WHORE aren't enough....
So sad that SeleuRyat is trolling this thread, when all I want is to get feedback on my strategy...
Can you even read? I don't see any space after my ellipses...
"Seleuceia still can't tell what is wrong with this strategy...Time for him to play MP?"
Is it time for SeleuRyat to retire yet?
So did it go metabling?mutabling to progfighter
Says you Seleukillr
Sinkillr, forgetting all edits are visible to the world...
Let's actually make this thread productive shall we? We need a name that combines all of our egos together...I propose Goaleukilyat...
I second that notion.
1. Do you realize that flak are a) expensive long to construct? flak does reasonably high total dps, but its very low vs. each unit. shield regeneration, repair cloud and similar stuff makes flak strategy much less effective.
2. Why on earth would you need flak burst if you are spamming flak?
3. With flak, you will be quickly outspameed early unless you are very far from the enemy. Vasari cant be countered - sb eats flak alive and flak cant even kill it when its being built. The same applies to ravastra spam with a kortul, cause lvl 6 ability will eat you alive unless you can disable it or retreat from it (not to mention vas lf reintegration). In first case you will need more money, and if you have it why not to go lf or lrm and simply outspam the enemy? in second you will do next to no damage.
4. If you turtle why cant I eco and turtle too? ankylon is very bad at beating sbs
5. Given the cost of flak, why cant the enemy go HC?
6. Tec is generally very bad militarily late game, except for their defense, and if you win with lf and make the enemy eco fleet, you have already won the 5s
7. You will have trouble clearing the planets with flak, which means you cant level your cap fast
8. Sins gods? LMAO. i will rape u alive whatever u use - lf or flak. cheap trolling
9. How are you going to counter enemy titans with flak?
10. Even if you CAN get to the point where you got lvl 3 tit and all the stuff...
vs TEC you might have some chance, but only if he didnt get that feed you got for titan. They still have demobots, their own tits, MB...
vs Vasari you will get raped by orkie even with minimum upgrades, cause flak do next to 0 single target dmg
vs Advent they have the repulse, titans, wail, radiance will drain your tit am, repulse will split your fleet, Illums with malice, destras, and even mass discs will make your flak dead
P.S. Sorry for serious answer to a troller's topic
That's it HummerX, you are on the list.
Of the "trolls" that Sinkiller sees.
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