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Spidey -> RE: Atuuk Gameplay Advice (4/23/2014 8:54:53 AM)
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Not exactly a huge amount of advice. But I'm pretty sure you play the Atuuk just like you play everybody else, except with as many provisions taken for their weaknesses as possible. They're essentially a race of lazy wimps and pansies who somehow managed to stumble into space. They build slower than everybody else and their troops are pathetic. A Sluken infantry can almost take on an Atuuk tank, if I'm not mistaken. And the only real bonus you have is that they're a fast growth race with high happiness.
What that means is that you need the Bakkuras Highspeed Shipyards wonder at your homeworld in order to speed things up, at which point you can build colony ships quite fast despite the penalty. Your other priority is to find an independent colony from a race with high troop strength. Mortalen, Boskara, Ikkuro, Sluken, Naxxilian, Kiadian, Dhayut, Haakonish and
Human are solid candidates, ranging from 138 to 120 in descending order. Find a colony and use it to recruit all the invasion forces you need. That way you can be aggressive without needing a gazilion invasion troops to compensate for inherently weak racial troops.
In terms of research, you're at a disadvantage, since you're not getting as many scientist characters as other races. And you don't have an inherent bonus either. And on top of that there's a 25% racial victory condition about being dead last in terms of research. My advice is to ignore that condition completely and make the best of the rest. All you'll get for being last in science is a mighty beating in just about every space battle you participate in.
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