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Drafell
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Mythica
Joined: May 30, 2003
Posts: 2449
From: United Kingdom
|  Posted: 2009-02-06 15:02
Faction Concept
K'Luth are stealthy buggers. Just when you are least expecting it a pack of them uncloaks on your six and renders your shiny new ship into an artistic heap of slag...
At least that is what could happen if anyone knew how to pilot the K'Luth ships properly.
Each faction has it's various strengths and weaknesses. K'Luth are no different in this respect, with the exception that they tend to be a little more extreme.
The K'Luth specialize in guerrilla warfare and ambushing their targets. In a straight out one versus one slugging match a K'Luth ship will rarely, if ever, win. Their ships are simply not designed to be able to cope with this type of play style. Instead they rely on stealth, cunning, and working in groups to take down a series of targets, much like a wolf pack will work together to isolate and kill individual prey.
This enables a small force of K'Luth ships to take on a much larger fleet of enemies, and win...
To be continued...
[ This Message was edited by: Drafell on 2009-02-06 15:50 ]
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buzzcoxss (Artisen Anitomical)
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Sanity Assassins
Joined: September 19, 2004
Posts: 144
| Posted: 2009-02-06 21:03
um i do that but i do it alone.
buzz vs ugto fleet vs icc fleet = buzz win
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Fattierob
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Joined: April 25, 2003
Posts: 4059
| Posted: 2009-02-06 21:24
how to play as k'luth
1) cloak
2) find enemy ship
3) get on the rear of that enemy ship
4) decloak
5) mash spacebar until something is dead - you, the enemy ship, or your energy
6) emergency jump
7) repeat
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deathblave
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Joined: October 10, 2007
Posts: 268
| Posted: 2009-02-06 23:53
and listen to utgo compliain that u didty stay so they chould kill u or for cloeking hahaha
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MrSparkle
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Posts: 1912
From: mrsparkle
| Posted: 2009-02-07 00:23
There's quite a few Kluth that know how to pilot a Kluth ship. There's a few others who need practice.
You have to be sneaky, patient, opportunitistic and know when to disengage because if you time it just a bit too late you could be dead. If the odds are not in your favor, don't jump in and start hitting the spacebar or you'll get fried. You have to be able to sit there and watch what's going on, see who's moving where, who's facing in what direction, what other Kluth are nearby and what direction you can all strike from.
They're a lot of fun to play, but if you aren't patient or aren't willing to get in just one or two alpha strikes before disengaging they aren't for you. Very rarely will you be able to fight 1v1, and Kluth cannot sustain much damage, so if you see what looks like a lone dread out there, rest assured either another player or an AI ally of his will be jumping to help him when you uncloak and fire! Never assume that won't happen.
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Lark of Serenity
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Joined: June 02, 2002
Posts: 2516
| Posted: 2009-02-07 15:42
fattie has it right until the mash spacebar bit
gotta time a run coming in on your target so you get an alpha strike off as you pass them, preferably from the side if its a foreward firing ship, otherwise gotta adjust your flightpath coming up their rear, in either case cloaking again right after your attack and making a wide loop around to come at em again. doing this with 3 ships on 1 simultaenously is murder.
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MrSparkle
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From: mrsparkle
| Posted: 2009-02-07 19:44
Yes it is. We popped 3 ICC stations in a row today using actual tactics  Just takes a little coordination, and not everyone is always on the same page when it comes to that. But when they are...it's mayhem.
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Mersenne Twister
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From: Sector C Test Labs and Contol Facilities
| Posted: 2009-02-07 20:44
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On 2009-02-07 19:44, MrSparkle wrote:
Yes it is. We popped 3 ICC stations in a row today using actual tactics Just takes a little coordination, and not everyone is always on the same page when it comes to that. But when they are...it's mayhem.
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post is obviously photoshooped, everyone knows nobody flys on icc anymore or uses tactics or coordination
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Winters Rapture
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United Nations Space Command
Joined: December 09, 2007
Posts: 355
| Posted: 2009-02-07 21:28
But if someone did play as target practi... ICC i am sure they could pop 3 stations with little problem.
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MrSparkle
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From: mrsparkle
| Posted: 2009-02-07 21:58
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On 2009-02-07 20:44, Mersenne Twister wrote:
post is obviously photoshooped, everyone knows nobody flys on icc anymore or uses tactics or coordination
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Once in a while this game defies reality...in a good way.
[ This Message was edited by: MrSparkle on 2009-02-07 21:59 ]
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Grimith
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Joined: August 09, 2003
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From: Your local future farm.
| Posted: 2009-02-07 23:10
So that's how you fly the lobster ships.
Well, clearly, I've been doing something wrong all of this time.
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Azreal
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Joined: March 14, 2004
Posts: 2816
From: United State of Texas, Houston
| Posted: 2009-02-08 07:38
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On 2009-02-06 15:02, Drafell wrote:
Faction Concept
Instead they rely on stealth, cunning, and working in groups to take down a series of targets, much like a wolf pack will work together to isolate and kill individual prey.
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If you don't grasp the wolfpack, no point in trying kluth. Not much to add after that.
except maybe this;
For the record, there are plenty of Kluth that understand that principal. That is not to say that the wolfpack is easy to pull off tho. The advantage is really only realized to its full potential if you have a good group of squadmates, and a comm system. Its too hard to run an efficient wolfpack without a good comm system.
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[ This Message was edited by: Azreal on 2009-02-08 07:44 ]
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Coeus
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From: Philly
| Posted: 2009-02-08 19:01
In some cases if you trust the pilots you're working with and everyone knows their role you can get by without it.
TB did it quite well with just the regular chat. One person would call out a target, and everyone would fall in on that target until dead. Sometimes a series of targets were called, and everyone fell into line doing that, and the targets ended up dead. Everyone knew how to fly, when to cloak & when not to cloak, knew how to fly and avoid friendly fire, and in the inevitable instances that someone did cross the firing line everyone knew to hold fire until they cleared - and we trusted eachother to do that as fast as possible.
Patience, practice, and skill are the K'Luth fleet's best friend.
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Bash
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Joined: February 04, 2005
Posts: 365
| Posted: 2009-02-09 14:35
The Brotherhood and B.U.M.S are the best kluth clans if you go kluth join them and learn how ( not sure if they still alive)
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Sir Diablos {C?}
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Joined: May 03, 2003
Posts: 37
From: Scotland
| Posted: 2009-02-10 20:01
Kluth takes practice for first timers, especially when it comes to energy management, remember disruptors usually suck cause were unbalanced so try popin in and outa stealth to get the hang of the ping times on it cause its mostly peeps that have been playing for a while and can guess where your guna be for the short time your still visible. stellar incinerators and assault disruptors are your your friend, everything else is pretty much a waste of energy/damage ratio
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