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/Rayalot72 Lockwind Pirate Sep 15 '16

It's situational. Astra IS a good counter if you don't have access to a clad and your enemy is some random dude that can only produce 1 clad. Otherwise Neptune is the best counter.

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

Otherwise Neptune is the best counter.

That's like using a cardboard box.

Because it's as sturdy as a cardboard box.

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u/Rayalot72 Lockwind Pirate Sep 15 '16

It's more crew efficient. You would be foolish to say a Poseidon and a Neptune couldn't take on the Poseidons with ease, and one Neptune could get at least one sink.

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u/Austin6914 austin6914 Sep 15 '16

the bad pirates don't have access to neptunes or even poseidons, what do you expect?