posted on January 21st, 2010, 9:59 am
The klingons are the spammiest AI next to the dominion. The best tactics against them are to dig in the best you can, and keep killing their ships they'll send after you as much as possible to get rank ups and etc.
Your strategy will vary depending on your race, as feds, mayson is a good choice (turrets), or with Risner, abuse the hell out of the fighter ships to rip the small klingon ships apart (the fighters have pulses, which do more damage against small ships).
As borg, don't pick Assimilate, it's my opinion that right now that avatar is more or less useless ever since they nerfed Assimilators special weapon energy. Although if you do go Assimilate, spam as many beam assimilators as you can, as they will always hit the klingon ships and will multitarget, tearing their fleets apart pretty quickly.
With optimize, use a similar tactic, but with spheres. Then build diamonds when you can and use nanites to rip apart clustered fleets.
The klingons and the dominion are very nasty AIs to go against right now, but they are defeatable.
If all else fails, do what I do, and up the AI build time/cost sliders a bit. I currently play on 1.15 multiplier for both and it seems pretty fair, I will probably lower it another notch once I've a good grasp on 3.1.1 gameplay for all the races.
Also, if you play with AI allies, don't expect them to do much, it seems the AI doesnt function properly when it is you ally. If playing solo do free for all games rather than teams, it'll work out better usually.
The klingons are definately not overpowered, but they support the AIs lack of tactics very well with their spammy quick ships. The AI is also much better than most human players at micro-managing cloaks and special weapons.
