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ORBITAL DEFENSE POD
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- Each undeployed Orbital Defense Pod has a 50% chance to prevent a Planet Buster attack against any of your bases
- Defense Pods may only deploy once per turn; when no undeployed Pods remain, a Planet Buster can only be stopped by sacrificing one of the already deployed Pods
Let's talk Planet Busters for a minute.
OK, say you're going at it hot an heavy with Yang
or Santiago, and you start to get the
upper hand. They lose patience and let loose a Planet Buster on one of your bases.
Now, if the U.N. Charter still holds, every faction on Planet immediately turns
against them. Suddenly, they have alot more on thier mind than just thier vendetta
with you. Bottom line, they're not very likely to blast you with another Planet
Buster anytime soon, and in a grim, Machiavellian way, you've probably actually
gained from the exchange. In that situation, there's no need to panic and start
sending up flocks of Orbital Defense Pods.
On the other hand, if the U.N Charter falls, for any reason, or if you're the hot-head who starts lobbing Planet Busters around indiscriminatel, then you will most definately need Orbital Defense Pods - as many as possible, as soon as possible.