What's The Best Sal Stratagy?

Okay the Salrillians seem to be one of the favorite races to play on Ares Net... So, What are everyones favorite strats to use with them?

I usually just build an assault transport and send it to the near bunker and follow it there with a fleet of gunships and my HVD. If i can capture the Bunker I either send a cloaked transport to the planet and time my attack to distract the AI enough to let it land.

What about yoiu guys?

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On Rock Rock i simply build gunships using the starting resources, then attack.

When I play Scratching Post, I will usually build an ATrans first and capture the nearest outpost, while using my HVD to annoy the other player(blowing up atrans, disabling stations, sneaking up behind his HVD and destroying it) Then I'll either:

1. Attack with a fleet of Gunships
or
2. Capture all the stations before crushing him

Once, on a Sal vs Sal match, I won by building all assault transports(surprising huh)

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I don't play Sals but isn't it most logical to start by immediately building a transport - they're cloaked so the enemy never knows where it is, and if a fight breaks out over one of the Bunkers then it's always possible that the Transport will slip in then without any possibility of stopping it.

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Ok sals only really have one strategy that is quick and easy..

cloak your HVD, make it a target, build alot of gunships and go kill things.

With sals though, you can always make things more complicated then they should be.
Transports are usually a waste of money unless your playing a newbie since they don't always know about them. Good players know how to find cloaked ships. So the best way to play is to just build gunships and go on a killing spree. If you lose your HVD or stupidly shoot off your main weapon before engaging the enemy, you'll probably lose.

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ramble on..
--Jimmy Page
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Okay so from this I see that the Main two obvious and most used strats for sals, i.e. use of cloaked transports and the Evil Gunship Fleet of Death. Anyone have any other more subtle and devious strats that they haven't seen fit to share with us? C'mon we wont take advantage of your lapses in operational security... much.

edited for speelling errors
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Out ride the sons of Terra,
Far dirves the thundering jet,
Up leaps the race of Earthmen,
Out, far, and onward yet - Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth

(This message has been edited by Vice Admiral Ipvicus (edited 07-06-2001).)

of course you never know if what we're telling you is what we really do... :eek:

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ramble on..
--Jimmy Page
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(*)(1st Class Zacha Admiral and guitar legend throughout the sol system.)