What are your favorite superweapons and Why?

[Luxivus]

Just curious about people's viewpoints on the superweapons.

[HeLLfire]

Too much work for too little gain :P

[BoydofZINJ]

Originally posted by HeLLfire:

Too much work for too little gain :P

agreed

[Madcain]

neutron launchers.. when you need to win a fight

[Jordzargo]

love a good o'l world Crakkin!

[Jordzargo]

just go romping around an enemy empire's systems taking out there population and industry one planet at a time.

[Fazzan]

None, because they're not worth the effort

[tomasoltis]

I manged to destroy some 25 planets + habitats in one egame till I got bored. I couldnt keep up with how many habitats the AI built :P Also, when the colossus goes on the habitat, the habitat and colossus take the same space. Also, who oyu target gives you -1000 perma penalty per planet, usually others will give you permanent -100, so you can have like -10000 relation so even purifiers are weak. Others I havent used. Still, firing the weapon takes whole 360 days. A year is short ingame ... and with new exhaustion it is better. Maybe rate of fire bonuses should apply to its weapon.

Is the colossus still limited to 1 ? I could think of 1 per 1k fleet cap... especially when you want to make sure rebuilding isnt gonna be fast, especially habitats.

[Yukiko]

Divine Enforcer you can use this on your own planest if some pops get the wrong ethics ^^
on enemy planets you get a perma -400 opinion and -40 from all other empiers per planet
but I no longer use the colossus
even if there was a reduction of -1 per year is -400 is too much for converting/shielding a planet

[HeLLfire]

Originally posted by tomasoltis:

<Snip>. A year is short ingame ... and with new exhaustion it is better. Maybe rate of fire bonuses should apply to its weapon.

In a year you could siege it down and invade 5 times:P
Well okay, it depends if it's got more then two fortresses and how many troops i'm willing to lose.
To be honest i only built one and never got the motivation to use one for some wierd reason...tough i've been playing too many pacifism games lately so i should probably do a CLEANSE THE HEATHENS game.

But i understand it gotta take some time otherwise planets would xpode all over the place :D

[ClancyDamon]

Originally posted by HeLLfire:

Too much work for too little gain :P

I set the max limit to 3 in my own game. That really helped matters and made going through all of the work to have them feel like it was worth it. With three I was finally able to start clearing out planets after wiping out all of the resistance in an empire.

[mcsproot]

It's mostly worth it for the Total War casus belli.

I've never really been a fan of 'scorched earth' style tactics. I want to use your stuff when I take it, not just destroy it to spite you.

The World Cracker and World Pacifier completely remove a planet from play. I only used them for the acheivements.

I actually haven't built a colossus in other games either. They just don't match my playstyle really.

They are also really, REALLY expensive. More than 4x the cost of a Titan. As was said in some Star Wars comic: For the cost of the Death Star, I could have had an armada of Super Star Destroyers.

So yeah, I don't really use them. They may be good in multiplayer when there is a chokepoint system with a planet full of fortresses, but by the time you can build a colossus you have jump drives most likely.

Themeatically, they're pretty cool. For my play style, pretty useless. Apart from the Total War casus belli. So I keep one around for that reason.