How do you defend from Lizard ground attack? so they fly...

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47 days, 15 hours, 18 minutes ago

eyecaptian

How do you defend from Lizard ground attack? so they fly...

How do you defend from Lizard ground attack? so they fly over clocked and unload, even if I have defense posts the ship gets away? how does this work?

47 days, 14 hours, 58 minutes ago

commander koski

RE: How do you defend from Lizard ground attack? so they fly...

A) you put more clans and defense posts so you are able to win in ground combat (thousands of clans! So only the important planets),
B) you prevent the cloakers from getting to the planet by laying minefields (or webs or you use glory ships etc),
C) you prevent them from getting to the planet by attacking and taking planets creating a vast area from where they can't get fuel, so they can't reach your planet

(and most probably - combination of all these)

47 days, 14 hours, 52 minutes ago

eyecaptian

RE: How do you defend from Lizard ground attack? so they fly...

ok, So I have a ship a warship at the planet, the planet code is NUK the warship is set to kill and the enemy is set to the Lizards, they fly in clocked unload and even with my warship there and even with NUK and even with 60 defense posts? Will my ship catch them?

47 days, 14 hours, 45 minutes ago

commander koski

RE: How do you defend from Lizard ground attack? so they fly...

No, if the enemy stays cloaked. There will be no battle. The enemy can drop clans and stay hidden.

You need to use some means to uncloak the ship, mainly by causing it damage with mines etc.

47 days, 12 hours, 32 minutes ago

paudolf

RE: How do you defend from Lizard ground attack? so they fly...

Hi @Eyecaptain, @Commander Koski has given you the answer... Looking at your game, I see you're in a bad situation. Your alliance has no great abilities combinations. As you have no fascists and lokis don't work against lizards, you can't decloack them. So, your bests choices are laying mines to prevent they arriving (you can lay mines owning to each one of your alliance races, so you can get minefields of 3 races overlapping) and use birds cloak+intercept and rob inside their area again to prevent they arriving (but, as they have lokis, rob will be very hard and dangerous). Moving clans spend a big amount of fuel, so try to get them as most fast as possible from your main planets. Finally, try to be aggresive to have initiative in the fight giving strong ships to you and so get fed combat bonus (unlucky, with torpers, lizard bonus use to be better than feds... fed bonus is very strong with big carriers, but you have no race with them).

47 days, 12 hours, 27 minutes ago

RE: How do you defend from Lizard ground attack? so they fly...

Put sufficient Clans on your (at least important) starbases, other planets you can recapture. Lay broad minefields around your planets and the routes Lizard has to take. If he risks loosing his LCCs while causing only the minimal damage of destryoing secondary planets colonies for a brief time, he will likely stay away or be inclined to sign a peace treaty.

47 days, 9 hours, 36 minutes ago

ndek

RE: How do you defend from Lizard ground attack? so they fly...

In late game, buildung an unprotected starbase and kill it with a watching battleship in orbit gains you 2 pp every time it is done.

47 days, 6 hours, 49 minutes ago

RE: How do you defend from Lizard ground attack? so they fly...

You need to stop them getting to the planet. Minefields, lots of them.

Don't leave any planets with low clans and low defence bases. Load up border planets with clans and keep the defence bases at maximum for the population. This will slow down the taking by ground assault.

Or get help from the Crystalines to lay web minefields, Fascists to access poppers to get them uncloaked and destroyed.

Ground assault from cloaked ships is the Lizard thing.

47 days, 5 hours, 22 minutes ago

RE: How do you defend from Lizard ground attack? so they fly...

AT least 150 clans on EVERY planet this will give you 60 DP which will make the odds of GA 30-1(+3) or 7.5 to 1 so it requires 1 Lizard clan to kill 7.5 of yours or 20 for every planet with 150 clans.

More on important worlds (2550 at least) with max defenses. This gives you 30-1(+5) or 5 to 1 odds and he will need to drop over 500 Liz GA's to take the planet.

SB worlds should have at least 5,000 clans with max defenses (giving you odd 30 to 7 and requiring him to drop close to 1200 Lizards to capture.

Add in minefields in abundance and you'll significantly slow/punish this form of combat.

Recapturing with ship combat is bad for native morale, so try to hold the planets with natives so you don't have to recapture.