wtf? i still dont get it.....

agreed.. after u pester me long enough, i usually give a tip or two :P

good tip there about attacking people a lot --

my personal experience is that vets respect activity and (possibly suicidal) bravery in new-comers first of all. After you`ve pestered someone repeatedly, they`re liable to help you =)

Allows you to join a decent fed too.

i need some teaching too :D

ephemeral is a good teacher.

Narca feel free to pm me on RT and i will help you as best i can if you still need some help with fighting

guardians who stack are terrible, ruby or tourm spam all day ftw

lmao.. few months? i`ve been here for FOUR freaking years and still can`t figure it out.. :P

garudians stack??

i thought it was just ruby spams....

as Chess says its complicated, its actually a good idea to save a few nice planets to being with not too many , attack other people constantly and see if they`ve certain patterns to their stacking. Learn from teh ones that kill you, use their stacks, best their stacks build other stacks, its all trial and error.

there are always battle calculators out there, and those are useful tools in the short run to see what gets what, and eventually in the long term to plan a long term high pr build.

in the mid term, and short term though just go ape on everyone, pretty soon they get so tired of wiping you out that they will give you tips, or you`ll see patterns and wipe them out and they`ll either avoid you like the plague or beg you to join their new fed.

That`s a complicated question. There are certain places you are more likely to see some ships. For example, at 100 million pr fighting a viral, the most common two ships to see on top are Pyth and D. Angel. So leading Queens *could* be a great idea, or it could end in disaster (if they have, for example, V. Borrelly or V. Chiron on top). If you don`t know where you might see a certain ship, or what kind of ship would most likely be in a certain stack position, then the only thing you can really do is experiment, or possibly appeal to more experienced Guardian players (in your case) for advice. Experimentation is definitely key here; if you want to be able to test out more stacking techniques faster, you can use the Battle Simulator here http://cb-clan.de/sf/battle.php?stylename=sfstyle.

Edited by 420BadWolf on 2008-08-31

If you are a guard you should definitely attack on careful and normal a lot. Careful seems to work out quite nicely actually. For offense as a guard you will probably be using mostly race ships and using both race and neutral on defense.
The trickiest part with guard is defending. You`re going to want to make use of strafez fodders, queens, and large runners. C and F class aren`t too bad of an idea for defense either.

take a few minutes to look at the ship list in the GC manual and make sure your first stack is within roughly 10k pr of your tenth stack when defending and attack on normal. When attacking on careful, use large hull ships in your stacks along with dummy stacks for the stacks that you don`t have big ships to occupy.
Effective use of both neutrals AND race ships will be key in most cases.