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Good Ships, Strategies and Procedures
By TecThor
This guide analyses all available parts, evaluates them and gives a detailed overview of how to assemble a good and strong fleet. Beginning at the basics I show you how to build your own fleet systematically and how to apply some basic strategies that will make you a strong opponent! Also I supply you with 11 calculated, tested and optimized ships that you can use in your battles!
As a physicist I just had to crumble up the numbers and run some mathematical and statistical analyzes in order to determine what parts to use in what way and how to fight on the battle field.

NOTE: This guide is an excerpt of the complete Tutorial on http://www.tecthor.com/Istrolid !!! Go over there to look at the complete and constantly updated version.
   
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Category: Achievements, Classes, Game Modes, Gameplay Basics, Multiplayer, Secrets, Walkthroughs, Weapons, Workshop
Languages: English
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Guide Index
Overview
The Istrolid Tutorial 
1. Basic Knowledge [Excerpt] 
Comments
The Istrolid Tutorial
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The complete tutorial is available on my homepage *click*[www.tecthor.com]

(I don't want to keep the guide updated in two places...)
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Video Guides

Lean back and enjoy:

E01 Basics And How To Build Good Ships In Istrolid










Planned Episodes:

E02 - Will be available soon
+ Blueprints of 11 calculated, tested and optimized ships (The TecThor-Fleet)
+ Strategies and Procedures to handle any situation

E03 - Planned
+ Semi-Automatic Battles using the AI
+ New/Optimized Strategies

A. In this Tutorial:
  • Analysis and evaluation of ALL available ship parts!

  • How to systematically build good and well balanced ships/fleets

  • 11 Blue Prints of calculated, tested and optimized ships!

  • Strategies and procedures to deal with any situation

  • Video on this Tutorial including the application of strategies and tons of helpful Tips&Tricks



B. Table Of Content

1. Basic Knowledge
...1.1 Ship Classes
...1.2 The Battle Field, Income And Hotkeys
...1.3 The Unit Assembly
...1.4 Available Ship Parts and Single-Part-Evaluation
......1.4.1 Turret Mounts
......1.4.2 Turrets / Weapon Systems
......1.4.3 Energy Supply
......1.4.4 Thrust Units
......1.4.5 Wings
......1.4.6 Shields & Cloaking
......1.4.7 Armor

2. How To Build Good Ships
...2.1 Combining Parts To A Good Ship
......2.1.1 Overall Stats
......2.1.2 Energy Management
......2.1.4 Weapon System and Boost Analysis
......2.1.5 Class Ratios - How good does your ship fit into its class?
......2.1.6 Process to build a good ship
...2.2 Systematically Build Up Your Fleet and Know Your Ships
...2.3 Ninja-Copy Enemy Ships and Analyze Them

3. The TecThor-Fleet
...3.1 Drones
...3.2 Figther
...3.3 Destroyer
...3.4 Support
...3.5 Bombs & Rockets

4. Strategies And Procedures
...4.1 Straight March
...4.2 Heavy Ship Cluster
...4.3 Sneaky Instant Win
...4.4 Fighter's Fight
...4.5 Sub-Strategies and Emergency Protocols
......4.4.1 Planting Bombs
......4.4.2 Force to Action
......4.4.3 Drone Swarms
......4.4.4 Decoys
......4.4.5 Destroyer Down
......4.4.6 All Fighters down
......4.4.7 Can't beat that ship
......4.4.8 You keep loosing although you know the strategies


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1. Basic Knowledge [Excerpt]
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The complete tutorial is available on my homepage *click*[www.tecthor.com]

(I don't want to keep the guide updated in two places...)
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1.1 Ship Classes

All ships can be divided in 5 classes (which of course is just a definition and the borders are blurry. But this will make it easier to talk about ships)























1.2 The Battle Field, Income And Hotkeys
  • There are always 8 conquer positions on the battle field
  • Your basis generates 10$ per second and each position that is controlled by you generates 1$ per second
  • You have 2000$ starting money - spending this money wrong will for sure cost you the victory!
  • Use the hotkeys! They are very useful features that you should learn to use
  • Stopping units = 'x'
  • Command units to follow = 'f' and then click on unit to follow. The follow function also works on enemy ships
  • With Ctrl + NUMBER (1-0) you can group ships. By pressing the number you quick select the groups
  • Double click on a unit to select all units of the same type




















1.3 The Unit Assembly
  • Assemble your units the way you want to!
  • But: Evaluate your creation using the statistics on the right side. They are VERY important!
  • Therefore I give you detailed information on the statistics in section 2




















1.4 Available Ship Parts and Single-Part-Evaluation
  • I analyzed all available ship parts of Istrolid in a 'first round'.
  • This still has optimization potential but it will give you a solid first overview of which parts are good and why
  • For the evaluation I calculated what you get for your money and rated the parts in comparison to each other by using the points table from the picture below
  • Note: Less Points = good / Many Points = bad
  • Also: Using money as the reference might not be optimal but it points into the right direction.
  • The Evaluations are based on the x/$ ratios, my experience with the parts and some extra calculations that I did on the side (I won't bore you with that :-))







1.4.1 Turret Mounts
Notes
  • If you have a unit with big turning speed then DON'T use the 360° mount but the 90° or even 30°
  • Slow turners use 180°-360° but use 360° only if really necessary (for example: anti-missile and short range weapons)









1.4.2 Turrets / Weapon Systems
Notes
  • If you don't want to spend tons of time deciding which weapon to use, then you should prefer the green weapons!









... end of excerpt!


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The complete tutorial is available on my homepage *click*[www.tecthor.com]

(I don't want to keep the guide updated in two places...)
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If you like the content please don't forget to vote this guide up on steam! ;-)

9 Comments
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BrickGriff 11 Nov, 2019 @ 9:56am 
Just a note on controls: apparently Alt + NUMBER (1-0) will schedule creating that unit (it saves the spawn order). I think the Shift key will schedule creating five of that unit, as usual.
Ghost993514 12 Sep, 2017 @ 7:49am 
I'm a little disappointed in your review on the phase bomb.
Phase bombers are a very legitimate strategy, I think, for countering shields (an AI example could be TurtleFence) or super heavy ships, but are fairly situational and can be countered with intercepting fighters.
Iodized Salt 31 Dec, 2016 @ 11:35am 
Can you add the spinal mount to the list?
GLITCHGAMER12 23 Aug, 2016 @ 4:29am 
I like this guide, very detailed and has a goood style. Keep updating it!
76561198088451370 4 Jun, 2016 @ 8:16pm 
doesnt say anywhere to keep another version but to update the current version on your site into the WAY WAY better version :P
TecThor  [author] 1 Jun, 2016 @ 3:15pm 
@xoxosunrisexoxo I can't keep another version up to date as it would be too time consuming.
However I very much like the idea of a persistent overview on the side and that is why I added one to the Tutorial on my homepage. Thank you for the input - very helpful!
76561198088451370 1 Jun, 2016 @ 1:02pm 
please make better --> http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=695397125
TecThor  [author] 29 May, 2016 @ 7:13am 
Bombs and Missiles? ... In my guide @ tecthor.com :-)
1978 FIFA World Cup knockout sta 27 May, 2016 @ 1:14pm 
Where is the sucide weapons?