Empires Of Planets 4

The Lizards

Race Attributes

• Ground Combat Boulder Attack! When attacking enemy races in ground combat they kill 30 times the normal numbers of enemy colonists, crew, and troops. Bonus is not in effect when defender is a Lizard
• Thick Lizard skin, enemy colonists, crew, and troops only can kill half the normal number of Lizards. Bonus is not in effect when attacker is a Lizard
• Can farm on hot planets (Up to climate 95)
• Very good at mining metals
• Reptilian natives twice as likely to join your base

Missing Base Buildings

• Anti-Aircraft Guns
• Laser Cannons
• Ion Cannon
• Undercity

Special Base Buildings

• Resort (Improves happiness of colonists and natives)

Ship Attributes

• Some are of Solar Federation design
• Lizard ship designs in the hands of other races takes damage three times faster the same ship with a Lizard crew
• Lizard designs have very thick armor
• Lizard designs have very weak shields
• Loki has a Tachyon scanner that will detect most cloaked ships (Birdmen Darkwing and Resolute Class ships are immune)
• Alaska Class Refinery Ship processes ore and can make fuel from metals.
• Merlin Class Alchemy Ship will produce metals from supply units
• The Lizard, Reptile, Saurian, Serpent, Madonnzila, and T-Rex are very tough ships, they have no soft spots and have very heavily shielded interal systems. Their high resistance to damage makes these ships very hard to kill
• Cloaking capable ships get to fire before non-cloaking ships during combat

Ship Special Devices

• Cloaking Device: Burns fuel and reduces the ship's sensor image by 50 points. Ships that have a sensor image of 0 can not be seen. The ship overview screen will show you your ship's current sensor image. Be aware that moving at high speeds, using your transporters, traveling through web minefields, or enemy tachyon scanners can uncloak your ship. You can never be completely sure that you have not been seen. If you have the attack order for the ship turned on your ship will attack from cloak, you need to turn off the attack switch to avoid combat while cloaked.
• Tachyon Scanner: Only works if the ship has less than 25 system damage. Has a range of 100 LY and works before movement. The scanner causes amost all objects in the area to have be show up better on scanners. The sensor image of any ship, wing, or pod in the area is increased by 250 points. The only ships immune from the tachyon scanner are the Darkwing and Resolute Classes.
• Particle Fountain: Extracts mineral ore from the core of the planet under the ship and converts it into metals and stores the metals in the ship's cargo hold. The only limit to the amount that can be taken is the size of the ship's cargo hold. The fountain increases the climate of the planet by 3 a turn and the HD stress of the planet by 1 to 50 points. The device has no effect on ore or metal that is sitting on the planet's surface. The device will not mine fuel or fuel ore.
• Barbitic Mine Dropper: Converts ordnance units into Barbitic mines and drops them. Barbitic mines are powerful anti-ship mines that also can be used to destroy enemy minefields. When a barbitic minefield is detonated it does damage to all ships in the field and destroys most minefield in the radius of the field. The only minefields that a barbitic field can not destroy are other cloaked barbitic fields. All minefields have a limited life time of around 20 turns before they run out of power and disappear. Any ship belonging to another race moving through your barbitic minefield risks hitting a mine and taking massive damage. Minefields can be stacked on top of one another. Ships traveling speed 12 or less are safe from hitting barbitic mines.
• Mine Sweeper Array: Destroys one enemy minefield or recovers one minefield belonging to your race converting it into ordnance units and stores the ordnance on your ship. You do not collect ordnance from enemy minefields that you sweep. The only type of minefields that the mine sweeper array can not sweep are cloaked barbitic minefields.
• Boarding Laser: Only used when you are transporting your colonists, troops, crew, or high guard to an enemy ship as a hostile boarding action. The boarding laser helps your troops take over the enemy ship. It cuts holes in the enemy ship doing between 5% and 300% hull damage to the target depending on the size of the target ship. It kills up to 10% of the enemy crew, 40% of the enemy colonists, and 10% of the enemy troops. You need to beam over 1 of your guys for every 5 enemies you want to take out. There are 200 movement phases and combat will not start until phase 50 so during the first one quarter of movement you have time to fly past an enemy ship, transport over a boarding party, rip the enemy ship up with the boarding laser and get away back out to deep space. Starting at 23 LY you can fly to the transfer target enemy ship, transfer over your attackers and be back out into deep space at around 24 LY before the first combat begins. The Crystals are immune to Boarding lasers.
• Ore Processing: When on, the ship grabs ore from any pod in the area ( including ones that do not belong to you), any planet you are over and any of your own bases. The ore is converted into metals and stored in the ship's cargo hold. You can have the metals automatically transported down to a base you own if you are over one with the ship command code BDM (Beam Down Metals). Two ore units yield one metal unit. The only limit as to how much can be processed in a turn is the size of the ship's cargo hold. Ore processing costs nothing.
• DTMS-N fuel Converter: The device when on will convert 10 supply units into 1 kt of fuel. It can also convert 1 duranium, 1 tritanium, or 1 molybdenum into 1 fuel unit. The converter only uses metals and supplies that are in the ship's cargo hold. It will stop processing when the ship's fuel tank is full.
• Alchemy Forge:When on, it grabs supply units from junk pods and resupply pods belonging to anyone, plus supplies from planets and bases that you own and converts the supplies to metals. Twelve supply units yield 1 duranium, 1 tritanium, and 1 molybdenum. Control switches on the ship can limit the process to just one metal type if you wish.
• Psi-Opps Hisser Unit: Increases happiness of all colonists and natives under the ship by 40 happy points. The maximum level they will reach is 100 points. This device will not work for non-lizard races that capture Lizard ships.
• Global Icer: Cools a planet by up to 5 climate a turn and uses up to 5kt of fuel a turn when working. The coolest it can make a planet is 50, which a fine climate for Lizards. This device is handy for cooling hot Crystal worlds just a little.
• Mobile Fighter Factory: Builds fighters in space using just cash. The device will add fighters to any wing docked with the ship that does not have the full number that can fit in the fighter bay. If the ship has any empty fighter bays new wings will be formed and the bays will be filled with new fighters. The device will build a new fighter wing if you have the cash on board the ship to build at least 10 new fighters.
• Gravity Well Generator: Has a range of 50 LY. Any hyperdrive ship within the 50 LY range of a gravity well ship can not hyperjump. The device will cause passing hyperjumping ships to drop back into normal space. The device requires 10 KT of fuel to run. The device has no effect on warp chunnel jumps or jump gates.
• Scalar Wave Amp: Increases the hyperdimensional stress level of the planet under the ship by 0 to 10 points. It increases the hyperdimensional stress delta (base frequency) by 5 points with a maximum of 300 delta stress. The delta stress is the amount of stress a planet gains in a turn. When a planet reaches a stress level of over 1000 it is in danger of exploding. The hyperdimensional stress delta is the rate that the hyperdimensional stress will increase each turn. Be sure to keep this device out of the hands of any Crystal enemies you might have.

Ship Super Weapons

• None

Playing As

Take advantage of your strong ground combat power to capture lightly guarded enemy bases. Lizard ships are build for fighting, they are very strong. Get into toe to toe fights with your enemies. If an enemy has a shielded base, park over it with a few T-Rex ships and scalar wave amp the planet, in time the planet will explode from having a 1000 hyperdimensional stress level. Your best ships, the T-Rex and Madonnzila, are very fast use that speed to avoid combat until you have massed enough forces to defeat the enemy. A T-Rex transwarping at 190 LY per turn through enemy space should cause a panic. .The enemy may group their ships to defend their homeworld, leaving their colony worlds open to attack. If they chase you they will be leaving their bases open to attack from other directions. In that case decloaking Lizard Class Cruisers full of Lizard troops are a wonderful little surpise. The Lizard Class Cruiser should be the backbone of any Lizard fleet.. Fly through areas you think the enemy is going to travel through and lay cloaked Barbitic mines using cloaked Lizard Class Cruisers, uncloak the mines just before you think the enemy is about to move through the mined area of space, if you are luckly he will run his ships into your mines at full speed and not know what hit him..

Playing Against

Lizards have ships with high armor levels so attack them with high armor drain levels weapons like: heavy laser, fusion cannons, anti-matter gun, blaster cannon, plasma bolt cannon, pulsed phasor cannon, or large turbo laser array. Consider placing cheaper weapons on small ships with high attack bonuses. Their ship shields are very weak do you do not need to worry too much about taking their shields down. When fighting them in a ground war use assault craft with high troop attack powers. Use fighters with high troop attack powers. Assault craft and fighter craft are safe from the Lizard "boulder attack". The Lizards do not have any super weapons so your bases only need to fear their ground attack powers and their T-Rex and its scaler wave amp that can destory your planets over time. If you are able to build ships with super weapon use the super weapons to blast their bases to bits from the safety of space.

Natural Enemies

• Crystals: They will make a special effort to capture T-Rex ships to get their hands on a scalar wave amp to increase the outputs of their hyperlathes. Lizard ships have very small repair holds, making them very easy for the Crystals to capture with web mines and the Crystal X field device. If you use your scalar wave amp on a Crystal planet in order to blow it up, the Crystals will just make more hyperlathes that will turn the stress into ord and prevent the planet from ever exploding, and you will end up being up to your eyeballs in more web mines. Do not attack the Crystals with T-Rex ships, instead send cloaked Lizard Class Cruisers that can sneak up on the Crystals while cloaked. The Lizard Class Cruiser can sweep Crystal mines from cloak. If you run into heavy Crystal web mines you can have the Lizard Class drop a Barbitic minefield and blow it to clear the area.
• The Evil Empire: They have very cheap battlebot assault units that are immune to the special attack powers of the Lizards, like all ground assualt craft are. Lizard fighters are far more costly than Evil Empire, it would be very hard for the Lizards to stand up to the Evil Empire in massive fighter battles, it would be very costly for the Lizards.

Lizard Race Stats