Hah, out of complete boredom, I just found an awesome way to get quick kills, plus its also very entertaining. you need a satyr mine layer ship (thats a human ship; it's alien counterpart is called the guardian), have the most expensive LASS stealth system for your utility slot, and buy micro photon compression bombs for all four mine slots. doesn't matter what your regular weapon slot is, you can just leave it empty. your engine doesn't matter much either. then go to the nearest enemy space station (the areas marked with red triangle on your map). select your stealth item and immediately start heading straight for the station, then once it's range is 4000-5000 from you, activate your stealth, making sure to dodge the few long range rockets that were shot at you. now comes the semi-tricky part. select your first mine and fly directly towards one of the station's corner turrets, and in one single short flight path, drop your mines on all 4 of the turrets and fly off
how to get to wave 50+ in a game before you have any ribbons: get an engineer pronto to build a small trench with two sandbags in it, then buy a gunner and put them all in there. if you see a grenadier lined up vertically with them, either get out of the way or concentrate fire (if you have an officer). when you have enough points, put a bunker over the trench and a cam net at the bottom of the screen. then get a signaler to make the crowded waves easier.. works almost every time for me
realism isn't the point of the game, but it isn't boring and unfair either. the more ribbons and deployment options you get, the more starting bonuses you have, so you can go farther before getting obliterated by a blitz of 10+ tanks plus 20 infantry (yea that can happen).
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