Empires Of Planets 4

The Stormers

Race Attributes

• Large ship weapons have +300 shield arc and +3 blast power
• Stormer ship shields are highly resistant to photon torpedoes (Only do 5 points of shield drain)
• Glory Device turns amorphous natives into contraband that can be sold for large amounts of megacredits
• Very happy race
• Very good at training troops
• Great ground combat skills
• Very powerful ground attack units
• Fighter craft have very powerful weapons, are costly, and lightly armored
• Very open to attack from cloaked ships

Missing Base Buildings

• Raid Shelters
• Terraformer
• Base shield
• Undercity

Special Base Buildings

• Labor Camp (prisoners produce supplies and 10 megacredits per camp)
• Labor Mine (prisoners dig for metals and produce 10 megacredits per mine)

Ship Attributes

• Most ship designs have very weak shields
• Most ship designs have very weak armor
• Cloaking capable ships get to fire before non-cloaking ships during combat
• The Thorn Class Destroyer, Deth Specula Class Frigate, and Sabor Class have an attack bonus so high that they overwhelm enemy point defense systems. Their weapons simply do not miss and are not shot down.
• Cold Pain Cruiser can cloak.
• Thorn Class Destroyer can cloak, sweep mines and drop barbitic mines.
• The Nefarious Class Destroyer is mine sweeper and can drop barbitic mines.
• The Nefarious Class Destroyer and Saber Class Frigate have glory devices. This cause the ships to explode and do damage to ships, pods, and wings in the area.
• Alaska Class Refinery Ship processes ore and can make fuel from metals.
• Victorious Class Battleship has a very high attack bonus for a ship of its size
• Merlin Class Alchemy Ship produces metals from supplies

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. The cloaking device on ships with a stealth rating of more than 50 do not fully cloak the ship, the cloaking device will only make the ship harder to see.
• 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. When a minefield is set to detonate it will do so before all movement starts. Blowing a Barbitic minefield will completely clear the area of mines and allow safe travel through the area. 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 minefield that you sweep. The device will not sweep cloaked 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. The Deth Specula can do this perfectly, it can travel 47 LY before the first ship to ship battle takes place. 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.
• Glory Device: Explodes the ship doing damage to all ships in the area. Flip the switch on and the ship will explode after movement is over. The ship can not be attacked before it explodes. All ships with a hull mass of under 100 at point blank range will be destroyed in the glory device blast. The explosion does damage out to a range of 10 LY. Ships take half damage at range 1 LY and one third damage at range 2 LY from the center of the blast. All wings and pods in a 10 LY radius are destroyed in the blast, unless they are docked with a ship. Planets in the area of the blast gain 150 HD Stress units, when the stress gets above 1000 units the planet is in danger of exploding. Your own ships take only 25% of the normal damage levels from the explosion. If the explosion takes place over a planet or base with amorphous natives the amorphous natives will all be turned into the spice contraband, supplies and food. One amorphous native yields one of contraband.
• 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.
• 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.

Ship Super Weapons

• Nemesis Torpedo: A powerful anti-fighter weapon. All fighters and pods in a battle are vaporized when the weapon is fired. All ships with a hull mass of under 100 KT are destroyed instantly in the blast. Ships with a hull mass of more than 100 KT and more than 50 shield points will be drained of 50 shield points and take no damage. Ships with a hull mass of over 100 KT and no shields remaining will take damage ranging from 1% to 130%, depending on how far they are from the center of the blast and their hull mass. This weapon will destory your own ships and fighters just as well as enemy units. Excotic tech can be bought that will make fighter craft highly resistant to nemesis torpedo blasts.
• World Crusher Missile:World Crusher Missile: Has a range of 200LY. Uses 300 ord when fired. Can be fired as long as you have ordnance to arm it. To use it turn it on and target an enemy base or planet within 200 LY of your ship. The missile has a 33% chance of hitting each base on the target planet. When a base is hit it is completely destroyed. The surface of the planet will be covered with the remains of the base. A shield will protect the base from being harmed. The world crusher firing takes place after movement and combat. The world crusher missile targeting system produces 120 units of sensor image noise when used. If the exotic tech Transphased World Crusher is used the weapon can be fired through enemy base shields.

Playing As

Place photon torpedoes on your high attack bonus ships. Use the very fast Deth Specula to disrupt enemy freighter runs. Take advantage of your strong ground combat power to capture lightly guarded enemy bases. When attacking enemy fleets attack in large numbers. Build cheap ships to absorb enemy fire to help your more expensive ships survive longer. Consider using cheap weapons to save money. Use the Glory Device over planet populated by amorphous worm natives to produce a large amount of spice contraband that can be sold to give you much needed megacredits. Keep your fighters away from enemy ships with sand casters. Be careful not to destroy your own fighter craft with the Nemesis Torpedo super weapon. Try capturing enemy bases that have base shields, then use the base shield to protect yourself from attack from space. Be sure to use world crusher missiles to destroy your enemy's more important worlds from a distance of just under 200 LY. You can avoid larger more powerful fleets and still destroy enemy bases.

Playing Against

Avoid using photon torpedoes against stormers. Kill or disable them as quickly as possible with sand caster / ion cannon weapon combos on medium size ships that have an attack bonus. You could also fight them with large ships with heavy armor, large shields, cheap engines, and cheap weapons. Their ships are lightly shielded and lightly armored so it does not take much to kill them, the hard part is standing up to their extra powerful, never missing weapons. Get the Stormer to waste their expensive ships attacking fleets of cheepily made but strongly shielded ships. Blast their bases with ships from space, they can not build base shields. If they are using fighters attack them with sand caster equiped ships.

Natural Enemies

• The Lizards: Their very strong ships are hard to kill quickly. Their designs will chew up stormer ships before they can be heavily damaged. Their Loki class can uncloak stormer ships with its tachyon scanner. You might consider attacking them with a few fighters in your fleet. Often lizards will make the mistake of not defending against fighters when taking on the stormers and stormer fighters are some of the very best fighters around.
• The Birdmen: Their ships are hard to detect and stormer bases are open to attack due to the stormer inablity to build base shields.
• The Cyborg: They can park ships in orbit and simply suck up colonists from stormer bases.

Stormer Race Stats