One of my friends I played with pointed out that when your sentry shoots. it reveals the immediate area of the sentry. So if you have a super secret pirate going to ruin someone's day in the area, and they see it, then hire an admiral... you might get a little miffed when your plan is foiled. -_-

tw2000 wrote:

zachghost wrote:I had 500 troops, 2 kings, 1 princess, 1 Intel officer, and 1 sentry. It was impossible to attack because if you sent 1000 troops they would get destroyed on the way haha.

actually if I were to send 1000 drillers I'd send 20 on every sub and wait 10 minutes between every sub (that way the sentries only destroy 1 per shot). Even better I'd just send a martyr + navigator hahaha

sending all of your troops in groups of 20 would be a VERY bad move if they have a hire. If they promote to warhero right before the first sub lands all of your drillers are destroyed without Inflicting a single casualty

Edit: Actually, with 2 kings and 500 drillers any sub under 320 is already destroyed without loss, so better hire that nav/martyr and hope they don't get a pirate.

How does Saboteur + Martyr work? Do you put them in the same sub? or separate subs, but just 10mins apart?

wonser wrote:How does Saboteur + Martyr work? Do you put them in the same sub? or separate subs, but just 10mins apart?

Priority. The martyr has a lower priority, so she goes off before the saboteur gets a chance, even if you own both.
If you put the sabo in a sub in front of your martyr, then yes! It'll bounce any subs that cross its path.

roadkiehl wrote:

frenchytheasian wrote:Wow I'll have to remember this. I wonder if an intelligence officer also increases Martyrs range

No it doesn't.
I saw someone say it does, so I wanted to correct that: the martyr's range isn't dependent on sonar. It's a set radius.

EDIT: I'm an idiot, and the person was right. A martyr's blast radius *is* dependent on sonar.
This is the last time I skim over specialist descriptions...

But it's dependent on "standard" sonar range. Doesn't that mean the unmodified range that all outposts have before princesses and IOs? I can't actually check this, but I had a martyr in the time machine at one point that I ultimately didn't hire, and I don't remember the range being any bigger that that of the martyrs my non-IO-having ally lobbed at our opponents.

killthefuture wrote:

roadkiehl wrote:

frenchytheasian wrote:Wow I'll have to remember this. I wonder if an intelligence officer also increases Martyrs range

No it doesn't.
I saw someone say it does, so I wanted to correct that: the martyr's range isn't dependent on sonar. It's a set radius.

EDIT: I'm an idiot, and the person was right. A martyr's blast radius *is* dependent on sonar.
This is the last time I skim over specialist descriptions...

But it's dependent on "standard" sonar range. Doesn't that mean the unmodified range that all outposts have before princesses and IOs? I can't actually check this, but I had a martyr in the time machine at one point that I ultimately didn't hire, and I don't remember the range being any bigger that that of the martyrs my non-IO-having ally lobbed at our opponents.

Yeah, Martyr range doesn't change.

A combo I've found useful in my last game: Tinkerer + Security Chief. By the end of the game, I had 2 Tinkerers at an outpost with my Queen and 3 Security Chiefs. Outpost had 100 max shields, so +300 Electricity each, but without the loss in Driller production that a Minister of Energy would bring. Extremely useful on a map that had literally zero neutral Generators.

kalzekdor wrote:zero neutral Generators.

They're called 'dormant' if they're owned by no-one at the start of the game

tw2000 wrote:

kalzekdor wrote:zero neutral Generators.

They're called 'dormant' if they're owned by no-one at the start of the game

I mean, I refer to them as neutral outposts too. And I know most people refer to them the same way...

ghaiel wrote:Its a good combo but very situational. Pirate+sabateur, smuggler+helmsman both solid t1 combos with multiple applications. For t2, king+security chief and tycoon+minister of energy are both amazing.

I tried king and sec chief in future time and it didnt seem good. None of my outposts had any extra shields cept shield heavy outposts (very few)

With the use of a hypnotist, I ended up with 3 princesses, 2 sentries, and an intelligence officer. It roughly covered an area of 25 outposts. I wouldn't try to go for this combo but it was fun to see.