Darn pirates

[BooMonkey]

What is the best strategy for dealing with pirates? They are too strong to destoy their base. Is it better to just pay them off?

[Unholy Eve]

Pay them off until you've had enough ttime to build up a good sized fleet and swarm them with bigger numbers.

[K2]

Pretty much what unholy eve said.

If you have tycoon executives and prirates on hard, you can also build a missle silo and nuke their ships, then finish off the base with less units then you'd normally need :P

[CheekyBostard]

WAT! u get nukes as tycoons!

i waited until they engaged somebody else and then joined in the fight and as soon as their numbers where down i set up patrols surronding their island with like like 7 vipers and 2 commandos and it worked great it kept them at bay...destroying a ship everytime they produced one no pirate problem and hector totally likes u for doing it

[Unholy Eve]

Yup its one of the last Tycoon unlocks and you need a lot of Uranium to arm and ready it but you get a warm fuzzy feeling when you see that glorious mushroom cloud.

[eXistenZ]

Keep them at bay untill you get acces to nukes/nuclear submarines, and then just nuke their base

[BooMonkey]

What about aircraft? Can they shoot down helicopters?

[melkathi]

Originally posted by BooMonkey:

What about aircraft? Can they shoot down helicopters?

Depends on the ships they use. The basic raider used by Hector, Scorpio and that also sometimes shows up during quests is 15/15/15 and 300hp (though quest enemies sometimes have reduced damage 10/10/10 and 250hp). That means it will probably loose against anything in a 1vs1 fight. In comparison Choppers have the same attack power and hit points, but have a higher dps.

[BooMonkey]

I see he has anti aircraft guns on his base, but can his ships shoot down helicopters? I am planning to use two hunter subs and a few helicopters to destroy his fleet while everyone else hides behind some harbour guns. Will it work or can his raiders shoot down helicopters and sink subs?

[BooMonkey]

Also what does 10/10/10 mean? Is that damage against air, sea, under water?

[melkathi]

Originally posted by BooMonkey:

Also what does 10/10/10 mean? Is that damage against air, sea, under water?

Yup. In that order exactly. :)

[BooMonkey]

Okay I defeated hector last night. And yes raiders can shoot down helicopters and yes they can sink submarines. However once you generating 1000 credits or so you can just build a second harbour and spam commando ships to overwhelm him

[tkraftson]

Two Firebird bombers can destroy Hectors base. Better solution is delete him before you start a game and replace him with someone less annoying

[K2]

Hector is pretty easy, expanding npcs (especially on hard) are more annoying. Or Keto.

[Aberration]

Originally posted by BooMonkey:

What is the best strategy for dealing with pirates? They are too strong to destoy their base. Is it better to just pay them off?

the way i deal with them is to paythem until i can build 2 airfields and have 4 bombers then sent them over to ♥♥♥♥ their base up

[melkathi]

So I am trying to play the hard single mission that has both Hector and Keto. It shows a timer of 2 hours before Keto's arrival, butjust as I was starting my weapon production, Hector swarmed my port, destroyed it and mys hip. I restarted deciding I'll have to be faster. Hector attacked me within 10 minutes...
I don't even have an option of paying him off for anything but trade routes. That doesn't stop him from chasing my command ship and attacking my port though.
Rather annoying.