How do YOU conquer a C3?

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First C3, I took with nothing but 300 FP and an LRD with following weapons:

300 MRMB
400 HT
300 HA

Second C3, I took with 300 FP (300 Q) and the same LRD.

My third C3, I took with one SF unit, 300 P. bombers, and 50 NFP (300 Q).

I'm a newb and trying 1st time to take C3 and failed miserably. I would appreciate if someone could provide a step by step guide. What to attack 1st, with what and such.

I try to have air force and land unit. I use air force to attack defense until nothing to clear then only use LRD to attack target, but it failed miserably. I have no idea at at all. Btw, it is a town I'm attacking. I've even clear their air force with my air force.

In what respect did it fail? Did it get destroyed? If so then you havent destroyed the enemies helicopters. Thats probably what mashed your LRD. Target the helicopter wings directly after you have cleared the interceptors who respond to your attacking the town. Your fighters should take them out, no losses. Then you are safe to use your ground forces to attack targets like cities, towns etc.

Cities will have a small defensive garrison, I prefer to destroy the defences then the target but some just go in there and accept any small losses they receive.

Remember the trick of getting your LRD next to the first town you attack, before attacking, to vastly increase the power of your attacking air wings (presuming this is a next door C3) against their interceptors. The LRD acts kind of like a spotter.

Also I like to just have heavy tanks and artillery in my LRD for this kind of work, and carry more ammo than the default s

Well you can use my war level 3 tactics if this helps.

To raid a C3 country I only use 3 types of weapons which are...

1000 Offensive anti aircraft missile batteries,
1000 mid range missile batteries and
1000 heavy tanks. All at quality 250.

Also with 15000 anti aircraft missiles,
30000 mid range missiles and
2500000 tank Ammunition. All at quality 120.

The first thing you do when attacking is by first..... taking out all the helicopter wings using your offensive anti aircraft missile batteries, but not the interceptor wings as they can not attack ground units and will save you ammo from taking them out.

Then second use your mid range missile batteries which will take out all the defensive weapons that are stationed at cities and forts etc... then thirdly use your heavy tanks to finish off and destroy the cities and forts etc... and keep on repeating this process until the country surrend

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It's a shame that most of these tactics mention here was during a time when most LRD had 3000 weapons. I wonder when people are going to come up with a way to win with a much smaller force.

Easy.
Build a attack/bomber wing. and 3 SF's and 3 Airdrop wings.

Dec a nation that is NOT right next to you. drop the sf's and paint. after most of the country is painted. attack a town and just attack defence. then go on and bomb the crap out of the corps, then capital.
If you did not take it over by then, then your ppl just suck and you should not worries about raiding.
(this plans involves bombers that in a few planets can not me bought in the open market.)

What does it take to conquer a war level 5 c3 on the cheap? I am getting creamed by the stealth bombers...Thought that AA would work with Mids. The documents state they can be destroyed by AA, but in all attempts, no scratch to stealth bombers..

Here's what I do for C3 WL 6:

I use Fleets and Special forces exclusively.

Two ways you can do this: the first is to attack a nearby country and suffer the stealth counter attacks. Make sure you have some air attack units and lots of good interceptor units. If you don't have air attack units, it seems the c3 will target your own stealths (which gets very expensive) Also, if you don't have decent interceptor wings with replacements available, the stealths will hit you badly.

The other apporach makes you invincible.

Send your fleets far off, and use allied bases etc to bring SF within dropping range. Make sure the country you are attacking is far enough away to be out of range of the stealths.

This way, you'll lose nothing except for the cost of the weapons.

For weapons, I use a mixture of Guided Missiles and Cruise Missiles to take out the cities (cruise are vast

I climb onto a big rock on the country's border and turn them all into stone by uglying them to death.

john if you fight that way, then you attack a city or helos and let the stealths respond, they will run out of ammo or weapons, your defense will kill them off. you might want to check your defense, it might not be up to par. I think craig said a mouthful in what he said. I have never lost much even with stealth counter attacks @ WL6. It helps to have a defensive slave that can help you defend. If your doing it alone and have no help from your federation or slaves then your loses will be greater. my interceptors in my attacking country and my def. slave usually does the trick. you get more ints to respond when you have help from a friend or your own empire. BTW I never attack a SBW directly. In my wars the defense kills them off before they cause issues. I think the biggest loss was like 19 pbs and 30 ints. and of course this could be a very long post if I get any more details into it.

@ maclean was it a chemical attack? lol

@ALL ON THIS

This may no longer be the case, but... Stealth prioritize the unit with the largest number of weapons (within the unit type they target). When stealth are targeting Air Wings, you could COMPLETELY AVOID this mechanic by creating a single unit of Attack Drones (which cannot be damaged by Stealth Bombers), then making every other "real" Air Wing 1 weapon smaller. I believe the same is true of ground divisions... using a weapon that Stealth cannot damage.

Of course, in order to be effective, you need the Attack Drone wing to be in range of the Stealth and in a position where your own air defense does not respond. Which can be a simple as dismantling (unless they made dismantling carry a cost of some sort) or airlifting out of air defense range.

Priority is something you should ALWAYS be looking at.

Bump, alot of good things to try out in this thread.

use occupational units. When you take it way less construction cost. you will blow up less cities. Take out defense first. I found the navy ineffective. How do ground units kill a ship. The thing is I can get the airbase construction unit to work

What was ineffective about the navy?

This is how I fight c3s. My method is based on speed, so it is not the most cost effective method. It can still be more cost effective than trial and error for an inexperienced player. When I fight c3s, I'm usually fighting multiple wars, one at a time in quick succession. I like to build up an offensive force to fight around 10-14 wars. Ranging from WL3 to WL11.

All weapons and ammo are 330 quality unless otherwise specified.

I like to have my army set up in advance of the coming multi war campaign. I will have 10 Long Range Divisions. Consisting of 9000 offensive anti-aircraft missile batteries, and 10,710 mid range missile batteries. 900 OAAMB, 1071 MRMB per unit. More batteries will be active in reserve to resupply.

I will set up at least 5 or more attack and bombing wings. All will only have precision bombers. Each wing will have 524 precision bombers.

For war levels 4 and above I like to have both interceptor w

Few errors, 99% good

I use air units and missilles. Use the occupational units to paint target. otherwise you will pay like 10 tril on construction. First attack the units. Blow up all the factories you dont like. All the green ones. Then the forts. Attack the helper unit. Blue all the bases. The capital. You may have to attack 3 regular cities. When your ready to blow up caputal paint the board