Posted: 29 May 2004 at 5:56am | IP Logged

hey Rob

the standards I use are distribution nodes, tram refits  for ship destruction. A C8 mechad overlord is good for charatcter elimination and an E8 mechad interface essentially gives you a duplicate ship with good and bad... both needs engaded doubling your point requirements, and if one is destroyed both are. BUt the good is the ENTIRE stack is doubled. The card is best played on a stack not just a ship. You can double a S7 if you want at the cost of a E8 card but for that it is better to have another S7 because both wont be destroyed.  But an S7 pimped up with shields and weapone refits and even characters, are doubled for the price of one card.  Also get terrain and bases which have lots of energy too charge your shield nodes.E3 and E6 reserve powers are good and B3 & B8 power generation Bases help for power. A B8 power gen on a Huge star can give you 30 energy.

Posted: 30 May 2004 at 9:07am | IP Logged

I'm not a fan of tram refits personally.  I prefer generic heavy weapon refits so that I can add distortion cannons.  Mechads have a little weaker offense than some empires, but their defense is amazing.  I agree that distribution nodes are key.  I use 2 E9 nodes, 4 E5 nodes, and 3 to 8 E1 nodes depending on the deck particulars.  Load up on energy producing terrain (the T10 Supermassive Star and T5 Stars are nice).  I don't have a B8 Power Generation Base, and I find the B3 to be a bit too fragile to rely on.  I usually go for wide range offense (as in distortion cannons), so I try to augment that with things like the H10 Akru Supernova or anything else that spreads damage over a lot of targets.  By doing a lot of non-weapons volley damage to everything (remember that distortion cannons are not a weapons volley), it's then pretty easy to finish targets off with phasers.

So yeah, to me it's pretty much about augmenting the distribution nodes and the distortion cannons.

Posted: 24 June 2004 at 5:49am | IP Logged

Back when Mechads were new, and played more often. A friend of mine created a killed Mechad deck focusing on Tranoans and planet destruction (with the promo terrain this will be a little harder).

He use to be able to take on two players at once. Depriving one player of his resources, while shooting the other players ships.

If you are creating a Mechad boarding party deck don't forget the Mechad Virus Fighter from Invaders, it goes back to the hand when discarded.

Posted: 24 July 2004 at 2:58pm | IP Logged

sorry Geko, your point of the distortion cannon refit giving morre refits is 100% untrue. The E6 heavy weapon refit gives +2 while the E6 distortion cannon refit only gives one. Both cards do still limit ships to 3 heavy weapon refits and bases unlimited.

Tufor, on the E6 Hvy weapon card it states on the bottom that if a ship has multiple weapon types owner chooses type refitted. The only advantage I can see in the distortion cannon refit card is that other races may add these to thier arsenal using techs. the card is exclusive technology which means a vek ship with engineer can now use the refit then add two more with a hvy weapon refit for three distortion cannons.

Posted: 26 July 2004 at 5:44am | IP Logged

Yes, but instead of having 4 cards in your deck that give you weapons mounts, now you can have 8 cards. It won't give a particular ship more refits, you are correct, but it can give your FLEET more refits, and the ability to find them faster.

Good point on the second use of the card. Except I don't think he would need another Refit card to get three Distortion Cannons. He already has Specialized Weapon Mounts. I think (I'm working from memory here) these can duplicate the cannons.

Posted: 26 July 2004 at 6:13am | IP Logged

the second card was meant to increase thenumber to the number of maximum refits allowed, Eg the distortion cannons adds +1 as distortion and a hvy weapons adds +2 more for the max allowed for the ship.  OK here's a question..How can ...argonians for example use distortion cannons..if it is possible?

Posted: 26 July 2004 at 6:17am | IP Logged

Argonians Can't.

Vektrean, Boolar, and Leopans can.

Posted: 27 July 2004 at 5:44am | IP Logged

Yes they do. check under the rulebook section where it explains each weapon type. It turns the weapon mounts into the weapons named on the added card. pg27 in universe 2.0