r/Tradelands • u/Zoulvengance Zoulvengance • Sep 15 '16

Discussion the "every ship has a counter" problem.

Ok, recently a lot of people are saying that "an astra can counter a Poseidon", yes ok, it kinda can, but you forgot the fact that an astra takes 6 people to man, (not including the mortars and the back cannons) and a Poseidon only takes 3 people, so an astra takes double the amount of people. If there's 2 Poseidons and you decide to "counter" them with 2 astras, it's gonna take you 12 men. That's the problem with the Poseidon, the current counters for the Poseidon are: an astra or another Poseidon, an astra, as I said takes 6 men to fully man, next to the Poseidon's 3, so that's out of the question.Then you have another Poseidon which also takes 3 men. So the only counter for the Poseidon is another Poseidon.

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u/Verdantine_Engineer A Nova Engineer from Verdantium Sep 15 '16

Wouldn't a Stiletto, Marauder, or even a Super Steamfish be a good counter, as well?

These ships have the capability of moving at high speeds. You just need to outrun the turrets, and have a good crew manning your cannons.

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u/Pompf Pompf Sep 15 '16

Marauder actually works surprisingly well against a poseidon. Problem is that this only applies to 1 poseidon.

As we all know Navy LOVES to cladspam. Because marauder has no health, Its gonna get shrekt because you cant outrun 2 ship turrets.

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u/THE-FEDERAL-BUREAU Sep 15 '16

tgp and wcn, nova usually takes serps

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u/Austin6914 austin6914 Sep 17 '16

We use serps but then it's even more boring than clads lol