Sub-to-Sub... Distance to Avoid Combat?

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  • Hey guys,

    Long time player, first time poster. I'm in a super close game and need some information. Here's the situation:

    I have a sub with enough drills to win combat on the outpost I'm attacking. It's carrying a pirate, navigator and helmsman. The outpost I'm attacking has a sabateur and a double agent on it. I plan on rerouting my sub out of the line between the outpost I came from and the outpost I'm going to.

    The question is this: How far out of the line do I need to be to avoid STS combat? I don't want that double agent destroying my drills, but I also don't want to add too much time to the trip for strat reasons.

    Thanks!
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  • Hello welcome to the forums.

    Now to your question. Simply reroute the nav to any base(one behind the base with the sabo/da is preferable) and tap forward on the time machine 2/3 times. It only technically needs one tick of movement but With everything better safe than sorry.
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  • I would do it sooner rather than later. Don't wait until the last 10 minutes because thats too close for a mistake. I would do it AT LEAST half an hour before, but the sooner the better.
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  • Agree with the guys above; Sooner rather than later especially if you can't be online to check.

    But if you want to leave it late to deceive a newbie, leave it no more than 6 ticks out - 60mins rather than 30mins.

    (1tick redirect other outpost, 1tick redirect back to target, gives you 3 ticks buffer before final "combat" tick)

    because if he's experienced he may launch EARLY on you; anticipating you'll leave it to the last minute. But if he is experienced, he'll probably bail.

    Hope that helps. Hope you score a free DA or sab out of it. ;)
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  • IMO it depends how active you are - if you're a long way away there's no reason to do it yet. Maybe they'll launch a double agent at you and then you'll get to dodge and score yourself a handy free specialist. Wouldn't leave it to the last moment though.
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  • I actually killed myself once by doing that. I had thought I would wake up at 8am to change it but I slept in till 10 am and by them it was too late to make it back to a base I had planned to return to to do something else :P
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  • Hey guys! Thanks for the advice! Here's how it played out: https://imgur.com/a/y25rQ

    Note: This was a guy that backstabbed in a 3 way alliance and I kinda dropped everything to forcibly remove him from the game. Lost a ton of territory, but it worked out in my favor and I'm currently recapping everything I lost while my defenses were down.... And talking mad shit. Lol
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  • He could've got out of that... Moving the Queen how he did was obviously a fatal move.
    In any case, nice kill :)
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  • Not a great queen move. Nice clean up.
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