Galactic Civilizations 2 - Dread Lords

Cheat Codes:
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Submitted by: RM

Cheat mode:
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If you want to enable cheats, you have to add the "cheat" command line 
parameter (Note: that's 'cheat' [singular], not 'cheats' [plural]) to a
shortcut to the application and you need to add it *outside* the quotes 
that enclose the application path in the shortcut. For example: 
"C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2\galciv2.exe" cheat

After that, enter one of the following cheat codes: 

Result                                    Code 
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Add 1 to planet class                   - [CTRL] and P
Add 10,000 BC                           - [CTRL] and M
Add battleship                          - [CTRL] and B
Assign remaining planets to major races - [CTRL] and L
Complete social projects                - [CTRL] and J
Clone selected ship                     - [CTRL] and C
Heal selected ship                      - [CTRL] and H
Hail's major races                      - [CTRL] and 0-9
Restart on new map with new race        - [CTRL] and N
Research all techs                      - [SHIFT] and [CTRL] and R
Research current tech                   - [CTRL] and R
Teleport selected ship to pointer       - [CTRL] and T
Save game                               - [CTRL] and S
Upgrade selected ship                   - [CTRL] and A
United planets meeting                  - [CTRL] and V
Remove fog of war                       - [CTRL] and U
Upgrade selected ship                   - [CTRL] and A
View frame rate                         - [CTRL] and F


Use the Dread Lords to your advantage:
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Dread Lords are extremely tough if you don't have enough fire power. But 
their advance in technology is ultimately their weakness. When playing 
with AI allies, you may wonder why sometimes they get really advanced 
technology. That's because they just captured a Dread Lord occupied planet.
Fortunately, their defensive capabilities are not as good as their offensive
capabilities in ground attack. So if you want to get full advantage of the
Dread Lords, prepare one planet near their border for continuous capture 
and re-capture. Each time you re-capture the planet, you get one really 
advanced technology. 


Dealing with Dread Lords:
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There is a way to effectively deal with Dread Lords. Their tactic is to send
in small ships to weaken your planet defenses and then send in their usually
unguarded troop ships. Their ships are all weapons and no defense. So its best
you create a fleet of tiny ships with the best weaponry available. Make sure 
you have logistics technology so you can attack their ships with your fleet 
with an adequate number of ships. Their tiny ships has the speed of 11 and 
their small/medium ships have the speed of 5 and their troopships (that look 
like squids) have a speed of 6, so be sure to have sufficient ship engine 
technology to catch up with them. The troop ships is only a problem if you 
don’t have ships orbiting your planets. Since they are usually unguarded, 
its best to create a small or tiny ship with only one minor weapon and a lot
of engines, so you can attack them quick and clean. Creating a scout ship with
no weapons and full of scanning modules, positioned at border planets also 
helps you prevent surprise attacks.