In Multiplayer it's rather dominating..

Thank god they buffed PJI's!

I had a guerrilla war period. After a while though I stopped getting into situations where my economy was outmatched. It is a more satisfying game and I think I'll try experimenting with the maps to see if I can engineer more of those games. It's not that easy because the constant drip-feed of credits and resources into the game tends to scale all the fleets up to the point where the end-game is a series of crushing victories for the player who is on a roll.. and if that's you there's not much need for hit-and-run any more.

as a visari plary grilla warfar is esencal erly game

Hi,

I understand guerrilla tactics as raiding and hit and run strats, and I have had much success using such a strat. I've found the primary benefit of such a strat is not the destruction it causes, but rather making ur opponent divert forces and focus elsewhere.

Similarly surgical strikes with a few missile frigs also work great, for example, when huge engagements occur with both players bolstering their forces continuously i.e. line of frigs from frig yards to the battle front. In such a scenario a small flotilla of missile frigs do wonders taking out frig yards to disrupt the flow of reinforcements.

Guerrilla Warfare is very possible. There are two tactics that are especially guerrilla-style:

1. Research the Tier 3 TEC Military tech 'Timed Explosives'. This gives your Arcova Scouts the ability to place time bombs on enemy structures for a whopping 1200 damage apiece. So make a pack of 10 scouts for only 2000 credits, send them deep into enemy territory, and inconspicuously place 5 bombs on 2 labs before beating the hell outta there as the labs blow up and catch your opponents attention(they'll lose access to some of their technology). Then you can either scuttle the scouts and build new ones, retreat them, or send them to an uncolonizable sector to harass passing trade/refinery ships for 15 minutes until they get new bombs.

All labs, all factories, refineries, trade ports, and all non-turret tactical structures make for expensive targets just waiting to be bombed. Defense Platforms(turrets) and orbital Extractors are too cheap and easy to replace to be worth the effort.

2. Send 2-3 cruiser carriers to an uncolonizable sector with enemy-owned Trade Ships passing through it. 3 Fighter Squadrons will be able to pop the flimsy passing Trade Ships in one pass every time, giving you a tiny bit of cash and denying it to your opponent. The more trade traffic, the better. Also, if neutral extractors are present, the carriers can switch over to Bombers and destroy them, so that you can drop in a colonizer or a Jikara Navigator(for Vasari) and take over the rock, denying resources to the enemy as well while taking them for yourself.

Although capital ships would be able to gain minute amounts of experience from these kills and would be more effective(the Antorak and Sova esp.), they would also be too precious to keep tied up for long stretches of time in dirty work like this.

Yes, hitting the supply lines is an absolute classic strategy. You do have to watch out for Advent players with the special ability that puts a bounty on players when they destroy Advent trade ships. I don't just mean watch out when you are destroying them yourself - since the money comes out of nowhere it can become a useful income stream for players at war with whoever is blockading Advent trade trade routes.