Pax Imperia 2 Cheats (PC)

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WIZZARD´s Power Words for Pax Imperia II

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After "Dungeon Keeper" - the second Power Words
are about the strategy

game "Pax Imperia II" (These PWs are released
4.1.1998, after playing

this game for several days. Thanx to Andreas for
hardware). This game is

let`s say very similar to "Master of Orion II".
If you´ve played that

before it is not too difficult to start your own Empire.
The

realtime-mode is not too bad, slow it down at the
beginning or in

important phases. For those who never saw Orion: you can
create your own

galactic empire with colonizing planets, doing research,
conquering

worlds and managing your empire. It is a complex
strategic and economic

simulation where you often have to think about all
aspects at once, in

short- and longterm-plans.

I played only the German version, so I am not shure about
some original

names. By the way, the German translation of this game
has many funny

or  just stupid mistakes. (ever seen
"Schlitze" in a spaceship? ;-).

Here is one strategy (there are many ways to win) and
some common tips:

- I don`t play custom races. My created race are the
Elarians. They are

a proud race of scientists (science +5 in the attributes)
and

constructors (construction +5) of mighty spacefleets.
Doing Spionage or

sabotage is against their honor (spionage -5). They don`t
need that

because of their superior technologigal knowledge
(weapons, shield, ship

& colonial research "high+1"). Alcyone, the
home planet of the Quantum

Empire is well kown for ist great cities and impressive
buildings, for

the Elarians are a rich race (finace +1). - Staring your
empire: better

test your staring position. If you have many opponents,
check out that

no one is directly nearby. Start on the edge of the map.
Important is to

find several green planets (very fast population growth)
in range of the

start-position. Build at once another transporter and
send the other off

at once (Speed = 0). The research should go 100% on
research buildings

(750 points, 3750 points) & then on construction.
Build these buildings

very fast on your planet & start all yur new planets
with research. This

is a very important phase. After some time (hope to have
no encounter

yet) you can start researching some weapons & shields
& basic spaceship

equipment like fast tactical engines. But do most
research on weapons &

shields at the beginning for they are the most important
at that time.

When you have some destroyers (don´t resesarch or use
rockets -> trash)

you should research very fast for better colonizing units
(Class C).

Never build a ship with old weapons when you found new
technology, e.g.

the waveshield.

- The Elarians don`t like spionage, so don`t pay any
money for it (0%).

- Planets: at the beginning is finding & chosing the
right planets very

important. Green is top, best with high wealth, orange is
OK when having

more than 10 population with at least 3 wealth. Don´t
build colonies on

red planets in the beginning, they have no population
growth. This and

efficient research are the keys for your superiority in
the virtual

galaxy.

- When you found in the beginning of your game a green
planet with a
high wealth & population then start with building
buildings and later

with a wharf in the orbit to build fast transporters for
more

colonisation.

- Research in mid-game: try to skip useless things like
the tactical

drives with defense bonus (takes too long to research). I
don´t research

any warpdrives for more than 2 jump range, because I
never needed them.

But: to get the biggest ship fast you need to research
the neutronium

(in the field of shields) and some other warp-engines
& fundamental

research. Try fast to develop the biggest ships. While
waiting for

research (Speed = 5) don´t forget to look from time to
time after your

colonies that they always buld what you want.

- Computer-research: very stupid. Never stressed on a
special field like

("How do I get the best shield in the
galaxy?"), it just goes through

all topics with 750 points, then all with 3750 and so on.
The Elarians

are much more effective.

- Computer-constructing: again stupid. You should be more
clever &

specialize planets for research, finance-centers (many of
them in the

mid-game to finance your future fleets!) or planets with
fast

contructing. Don´t build some constructing buildings at
the beginning,

time is too short, just start directly with science or
finace. Don´t

ever build a spionage-building (in this partuculary
strategy).

- Weapons-research: don´t waste any time on rockets and
do not research

at the beginning too much in planetary bombs (firestorm
is quite

enough). But get fast some good long-range weapons
(Durg-Cannon) and

then some nice mid-range weapons.

- Research in Space: don´t waste many points here at the
beginning. A

C-class colonizer is important and a level-3 wharf is
good, but here are

not too many important things. But in the mid-game you
will encounter

intelligent mines. To get rid of them research the mines
& then the

anti-mine-ship and build it in your bigger ships. Later,
you might

encounter mines this ship can`t see & so you must
research better mines

& the better anti-mine-ship.

- The Elarians conquer other worlds & protect these
with their fleets

which guard their systems (the guarding-symbol). They
don´t ever need a

planetary defense system, because parts their fleets (two
ships) always

protect their systems at the border to other territory.
They are smart

enough not to fight at too many places of the galaxy at
once, they first

finish a branch off & then go to another. Because of
their superior

technology theyr ships win nearly every battle.

- And the computer can play very stupid, he has only
three little

spaceships, notices my big fleet & declares war.
Talking about

stupidity: the computer is not bad at automatic fighting,
but has

difficulties with good moving big fleets. Sometimes you
have to move

your ships to the right position & click again on
automatic fight.

- Cracking the planetary defense system: can be difficult
with even very

modern ships, so take at least four big ones (4000) and
some medium

ships (2000) to attack a system with mines, rockets and
battlestation.

- In the later mid-game you should start to research goodfighters. The

Elarians don`t have any problems fighting their opponent
fleets, but

have to be careful about fighter pods &
battlestations on other planets.

Now you should fast research all fighters & develop a
carrier-ship with

some weapons.

- Talking about weapons: the Elarians never use weapons
on the left or

right side on their ships, they attack always from the
front, for they

never flee. Weapons for the front are: long-range like
gauss cannon and

mid-range weapons like the quantum torpedoes. Important
especially for

attacking mined systems are the point-weapons for the
around-defense of

the ship. Here you should place mostly mid-range or
short-range heavy

weapons, but many different ones. Don´t let the computer
automatically

equip your ship!

- The computer places two fighting fleets in
far-weapon-range. But it is

better to move your ships very near to the enemy fleet
& then switch

back to automatic fight. Then the heavy short-range
weapon can be used.

With this tactics, the Elarians destroy ever four times
bigger fleets.

- Attacking heavily guarded systems: the others launch
their fighters

and they come near, your fleet starts. Then press the

stop-automatic-button and wait for your fleet destroying
the fighters.

Then start to attack the mines and the battlestation.
With this easy

tactics you save a lot of ships.

- In the mid-game you`ve got many nice planets (I hopefor you), so you

should look from time to time to find the best
administrator for the

fields like ship construction or research. This brings
much more points,

often 10%,

- Damage: in Pax Imperia II, the ships don`t just have
hitpoints going

to zero when being attacked, the enemy attacks can damage
important

systems as tactical engines (no moving), weapons or
warp-engines. If

your fleet doesn`t move or go through the wormhole, try
to find out

which ship is damaged and scrap it.

- Moving your damaged ships back to a construction bay
repairs them

faster. You should research fast the repairing-drone. For
fast Hit

Recovery (reminds me on Diablo...), put two reairing
drones in one ship.

- You will see that having a good fleet will be
expensive: after the

first research & colonizing phase start with building
specialized

finance worlds. When having the class-C colonizer, you
should also

colonize on red worlds if they are rich (at least x4).
This is a good

trick to get many money, because you have five million
colonists at once

on this planet.

- In the end-game (I think you came so far ;-) your
empire should attack

the strongest opponent & build many tranceporters and
move the front of

your systems through the galaxy. With the
InfiniShield(tm) and the

Corona (great weapon) you can easily destroy any
planetary defense

system. But in the rush of building a big fleet look from
time to time

if you have enough money to finace it. If not, scrap the
oldest and most

damaged ships in the fleet menu.

- During the end-game, the Elarians have enough research
points, so they

only build finance worlds (change switch to
"finance").

- When playing against 15 computer opponents, you will
see they mostly

work all together against you, even do research together!
But no problem

- the superior Quantum Empire of the Elarians win all
battles.

Now start your empire and colonize the galaxy. Good luck.

Christian Wizzard

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