General Anti-borg Strategy (3.1)

posted on April 21st, 2010, 6:24 am

My advice for borg is this, the borg are rocky, there not smooth like feddies or any other race,

They mine 600 and then refine, its not a smooth continuous flow, you dont just pump out a bunch of brels or intrepids, you take alot of money and build scubes.

Borg players use 4 ships, scubes spheres diamonds (prety much just for chaos) cube (by this time game is over) and then the probes, but only like one or two

I say your best chance of attack if your a cloaking race, is figure out when they are building a sphere and strike.

This is the best time, because the transition between scubes and sphere is always timed just right, you need all the uplinks and resouces, so if you destroy the little frame thing, the borg player looses like 1600 di some tri building time and uplinks, plus the firepower of a sphere, and if hes building a sphere its probably cus his scubes arnt doing the trick, in the insuing battle you should win, if you dont, regroup quikcly and attack his mining, borg miners when there lost, it sucks,

posted on April 21st, 2010, 10:10 am

Nice thinking.

posted on April 21st, 2010, 3:56 pm

Sounds like a good strategy to me! 

The phrase "time is of the essence" is more important for playing Borg than for any other race, imo. Although it helps with the others, when playing as or against the Borg you really need to be fast and /

posted on May 3rd, 2010, 11:31 pm

And now the new patch is out i must ask.... How to counter assimilator spam as dominion?

I was mass producing bomers but the assims strip them too quickly of crew then turn them agaisnt me.I dunno, maybe im just whining because i lost 

posted on May 3rd, 2010, 11:37 pm

retreat any bomber the second the borg turn on blue beams

try not to let any bomber get to close, or it wont get out of range fast enough. keep a ship near the back of your fleet with a separate hotkey, any ships that lose crew you should quickly reboard with your backup and retreat and recrew again. bombers are naturally low crew and weak against assims. bugs are worse. try build something with more crew if possible.

if you are desperate for retreat keep a bug or two in your fleet (hey that rhymes) and use a bug to ram a chasing assim, will take down engines and allow retreat.

posted on May 3rd, 2010, 11:52 pm

S-2 is your counter to Assimilators, not Bombers

posted on May 24th, 2010, 8:40 pm

Well, the adjustments made in 3.1.2 certainly have helped balance the borg down a bit. (at least IMhO) The AI is no longer handing my ass to me in normal, nor can I with impunity sweep across the maps like I used to (I can, but not nearly as quickly like I used two with just three assimilators and a couple of probes and scouts)

what changes is anyone else noticing in their borg game play? I note I am using a lot more medium ships AS the borg, more dodeca's and assimilators and spheres, and less turtling up/relying on captured ships till I can build pyramids and cubes. fighting the borg I'm not being mauled as badly while trying to target combat oriented ships or having to turn my base into a no-man's land of turrets at the cost of fleet numbers

posted on May 24th, 2010, 9:18 pm

usually building assims u dont build probes or scubes.

posted on May 25th, 2010, 3:32 am

At least in MP you do! They are for detecting cloak and fast hitting at exps.

posted on May 25th, 2010, 1:04 pm

the best thing to do is get your base and expansion resources set quickly along with several shipyards, just spam level 1 ships as quickly as possible, send them to the enemy resource points, destroy as much as possible. that should give you a chance to get level 2 ships to add to the mix, eventually arty ships are next which should take care of buildings. but it must be done as soon as. when the cube comes, no matter how big your 1st fleet it, the cube will survive it depending on its reg and armour slots taken.

posted on May 25th, 2010, 2:02 pm

you build them after your first and second assim usually if you are going for fast assim. at least thats what i would do. if you go for fast assim you should easily be knocking on their door before they have enough ships to threaten any of your mining, borg miners are so tough they are hard to harass. their fleet at that time would be too small to harass borg. and when you attack their miners with your assim they will definitely decloak to attack your assim, so you wont need to decloak them.

posted on May 27th, 2010, 4:16 pm

borg miners are so tough they are hard to harass.

Very true. I find it usually takes 8 to ten first level ships of any race to effectively squish a borg miner, and even then it's no turkey shoot to get it done before backup arrives