[[File:Lizards_Race_Icon_Nu.png|thumb|right|Lizard Alliance race icon from [http://vgaplanets.nu VGA Planets Nu]]]
=Origin=
The Lizard Alliance also known as Lizards are based on the Gorn Hegemony, from the "Star Trek" universe. It's a reptilian species, which showed in the Episodes TOS: "Arena", Enterprise: "In a Mirror, Darkly Part II" and in some books/games.

=Race abilities=
* Ground Combat: 30:1 (offensive); 15:1 (defensive) - strongest in the game (at fully defended planets it can go down to 5:1)
* can capture starbases through ground attack (along with the [[Evil Empire]] and its [[Super Star Destroyer]])
* 2x faster mining
* "Hiss" mission - ships with beam weapons can threaten colonists and natives on a planet to increase happiness by 5 points per ship per turn
* Cloaking device on some ships - [[Reptile Class Destroyer|Reptile]], [[Saurian Class Light Cruiser|Saurian]], and [[Lizard Class Cruiser|Lizard]]
* can take 150% damage on their ships (ships will explode after combat if damage is above 100% and if they are in orbit of a planet)

=Strategy Guides=

From [http://www.donovansvgap.com/ Donovan's VGA Planets] site:<br>
[http://www.donovansvgap.com/guides/lslizards.htm It Ain't Easy Being Green]<br>
[http://www.donovansvgap.com/guides/lizards.htm The Lizards Guide to the Echo Cluster]

=Ship List=
<div style="text-align: center;">
{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="2"
|-
! Tech
! Name
! Mass
! Fuel
! Cargo
! Crew
! Engines
! Beams
! Torps
! Bays
! MC
! Dur
! Trit
! Moly
! Special
|-
| 1
| [[Small Deep Space Freighter]]
| 30
| 200
| 70
| 2
| 1
|
|
|
| 10
| 2
| 2
| 3
|-
| 1
| [[Serpent Class Escort]]
| 55
| 160
| 20
| 35
| 1
| 2
|
|
| 40
| 15
| 33
| 5
|-
| 3
| [[Neutronic Fuel Carrier]]
| 10
| 900
| 2
| 2
| 2
|
|
|
| 20
| 10
| 2
| 20
|-
| 3
| [[Medium Deep Space Freighter]]
| 60
| 250
| 200
| 6
| 1
|
|
|
| 65
| 4
| 4
| 6
|-
| 3
| [[Reptile Class Destroyer]]
| 60
| 120
| 50
| 45
| 2
| 4
|
|
| 50
| 22
| 33
| 15
| [[Cloaking|Cloak]]
|-
| 4
| [[Eros Class Research Vessel]]
| 35
| 110
| 30
| 78
| 2
| 2
|
|
| 30
| 4
| 3
| 13
| [[Terraform Ship]] (lowers temp)
|-
| 4
| [[Lizard Class Cruiser]]
| 160
| 330
| 290
| 430
| 2
| 4
| 3
|
| 190
| 42
| 81
| 30
| [[Cloaking|Cloak]]
|-
| 5
| [[Vendetta Class Frigate]]
| 100
| 140
| 30
| 79
| 2
| 4
| 4
|
| 170
| 12
| 23
| 57
|-
| 6
| [[Large Deep Space Freighter]]
| 130
| 600
| 1200
| 102
| 2
|
|
|
| 160
| 85
| 7
| 8
|-
| 7
| [[Saurian Class Light Cruiser]]
| 120
| 260
| 150
| 336
| 2
| 4
| 2
|
| 85
| 32
| 67
| 23
| [[Cloaking|Cloak]]
|-
| 8
| [[Loki Class Destroyer]]
| 101
| 140
| 80
| 265
| 2
| 2
| 4
|
| 170
| 10
| 20
| 43
| [[Tachyon Device]]
|-
| 9
| [[Madonnzila Class Carrier]]
| 331
| 290
| 150
| 910
| 2
| 4
|
| 5
| 420
| 110
| 123
| 90
|-
| 9
| [[Neutronic Refinery Ship]]
| 712
| 800
| 1050
| 190
| 10
| 6
|
|
| 970
| 125
| 150
| 527
| [[Alchemy|Alchemy Ship]] - 1 Supply + 1 Mineral -> 1 Fuel
|-
| 10
| [[Super Transport Freighter]]
| 160
| 1200
| 2600
| 202
| 4
|
|
|
| 220
| 125
| 13
| 18
|-
| 10
| [[T-Rex Class Battleship]]
| 421
| 490
| 190
| 810
| 2
| 10
| 5
|
| 350
| 140
| 153
| 100
|-
| 10
| [[Merlin Class Alchemy Ship]]
| 920
| 450
| 2700
| 120
| 10
| 8
|
|
| 840
| 625
| 250
| 134
| [[Alchemy|Alchemy Ship]] - 3 Supplies -> 1 Mineral
|}
</div>

=Notes=

* Build an Eros starbase early on to pump out HISS-er ships. Every large cluster of planets should have one HISS starbase. Eros ships are 100mc each (ish) even if you outfit them with t5 engines (nice but not necessary).
* Some players build tons of small deep space freighters late in the game to fill up the build queue, then recycle them for priority build points. The Lizards can do one better - build Serpents with tech-1 engines and beams and use them to HISSS! until you want to recycle them.
* starbase-inna-can ships are extremely valuable for getting starbases up and running fast. Null-tech starbases can still pump out HISS ships, and you may not get the chance to make them later.
* The T-Rex is a midrange attack ship, and is extremely cheap for its armament. Don't treat it like a heavy warship - it's in fact the least powerful tech-10 ship in the game. (Nevertheless it is superior to Fascists/Crystals (Diamond Flame)/Privateer and Fed (Missouri) main warship if you have a Lizard crew on board). T-Rex Classes often are one-way-ships when it comes to fighting carriers.
* LCCs are awesome but they're heavy and they suck up fuel. Make lots, but be aware that scavenging for fuel in enemy territory is hard, particularly if you're gravid with troops.
* Lizard players can win alliances by offering to HISSSS! other players' planets - have them tow a Serpent with tech-1 engines and beams to the planet of their choice. Note that you can't give your ships to them - you must be in control of them in order to HISSSS!
* The Lizard Alliance is the race with the strongest economy in the whole game. Infrastructure is their backbone, and therefore all ships improving that (hypers, fireclouds, freighters) are most desirable.
* The Lizards are very versatile on both the offense and the defense, but definetely an aggressive race. While on the offense they "colonize" already developed spaces, they should treat their own territory as soft matter on the defense. With cloakers and ground attack, they can just lift one leg, as soon as a strong battlegroup appears to be attacking. And put it back on, as soon as the enemy has left this planet.
* The main weapon of the Lizards are their colonists. So every single one should be treated and fed properly.
* Never underestimate the psychologic effect of cloaking devices. You see everything in your turn while your opponent often believes that there is a little or nothing.

=Strategies=

==[[Alliances]]==

===With the [[Feds|Solar Federation]]===

* Refitting of ships
* You can provide cloakers, which they can make pretty good use of (immune to Lokis)
* Can HISS his planets
* [[Madonnzila Class Carrier|Madonzilla]] benefits highly from Fed ship bonus (extra bays)
* Economies: they have double taxes, you have double mining - trade-off (hissing a fed planet will make it a cash cow)

===With the [[The Empire of Birds|Empire of the Birds]]===

'''What you can give'''

*Economic power: Hiss his planets for more cash-flow
*Terraforming with Eros Classes
*Decloaking with Loki Classes
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'''What you can get'''

*Darkwings are stronger than T-Rex Class Battleships
*The Resolute Class is the big brother of the Lizard Class
*Superspy to control nasty minefields
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===With the [[Fascists]]===

===With the [[Privateers]]===

===With the [[Cyborg]]===

* HISSSS! their planets! The Borg need fighters for their deadly Biocides, and for those they need a TON of cash.
* An amazing strategy to try:
** Put a cloaker ([[Reptile Class Destroyer|Reptile]], [[Lizard Class Cruiser|Lizard]], or [[Saurian Class Light Cruiser|Saurian]]) on an enemy planet where there is also in orbit a very strong enemy ship (say, a [[Virgo Class Battlestar|Colonial Virgo]]). Make sure the ship is cloaked.
** Have the Cyborg player move a [[Firecloud Class Cruiser|Firecloud]] about 80 lightyears away from the planet - enough to reach in one turn.
** When you are both ready, have your cloaker tow the enemy ship to the Firecloud.
** The same turn, the Cyborg should [[Warp Chunnel|chunnel]] that Firecloud (and, by extension, the enemy ship) to one of his worlds, where he has a low-[[Ship ID|ID]] Biocide waiting, mission set to "Kill!".
** When the enemy ship comes through the chunnel, its shields will be down. Because the Biocide has the lowest ship ID, it will attack the enemy ship first, easily destroying it.
** If the friendly code of your cloaker is different from that of the Firecloud, you can stay around and do it again!
* Cool any hot planets they may have (above 50) using [[Eros Class Research Vessel|Eros Researchers]]. This increases not only the rate at which their colonists grow, but also increases the maximum colonist population. Essential when combined with assimilation.
* Borg colonists are deadly when given to [[Lizard Class Cruiser|LCC]]s. Capture enemy planets (and even starbases) with those clans via ground combat.
* Probes, Firecloud Classes and Biocide Class Carriers are very desirable ships for the Lizard.

===With the [[Crystals]]===

* Give them LCCs with good torpedo tubes (Mark VII). The LCC has a very decent cargo space, which is great to lay big webmine fields.
* The Crystals have a terraformer to raise the planet temperature, combine them with the Eros to keep the temperature at 50 degrees.

===With the [[Empire]]===

===With the [[Robots]]===

'''What you can give:'''

* Hiss mission boosts his torpedo production.
* Mining rate boosts his fighter production.
* Your cloaking ability shows robotic carriers where to strike.
* The Lizard Class is a very good robotic minelayer and -producer, due to his great cargo hold.
* The Saurian Class is a very good offensive minelayer due to his large cargo hold and low fuel consumption.
* Be careful with giving cloaking minelayers away. They are gold.
* The T-Rex is an ideal shield-killer against all carriers.

'''What you can get'''

* Huge mine-covers destroying the last weapon your opponent has against your cloakers.
* Carriers and fighters making your weak combat groups the strongest in the game.

===With the [[Rebels]]===

===With the [[Colonies]]===

==[[Enemies]]==

===The [[Feds|Solar Federation]]===

'''Offense'''
* Feds have a rough time getting minerals; hit their laden freighters.
* Their [[Nova Class Super-Dreadnought|Nova]] can easily take out two T-Rexes in a row. Be careful.
* Your ships are immune to the Loki Class, so ground attacking his bases is fairly easy.
* A captured starbase will destroy (or take over) all non-refitted ship-hulls.
* The Solar Federation is your natural prey, ground attack them until they are ruined.
* The Fed becomes strong in the mid-game, when he can refit his empty ship hulls. So try to attack him as early as possible.

'''Defense'''
* The most federal ships have small fuel tanks. Beam up all fuel, most colonists and one torpedo-relevant mineral from the planet and take it back as soon as it has been captured.
* The Federation has a hard time to destroy starbases.. build and guard defensive bases with a torper or a small freighter, so that an attacking torpedo ship will discharge it's tubes and beams before attacking the base.
* Counterattack immediately and ruin his economy and his supply lines.
* Lay mines in the beginning to provoke him to put the most (mineral-) expensive beams into his ships.

===The [[The Empire of Birds|Empire of the Birds]]===

'''Offense'''

*Always move under mine cover, because cloaked bird ships don't see minefields
*Ground attack if nothing else
*Try to touch planets with your battle ships as little as possible.
*Always fly in Battlepairs
*Refuel your battle ships with cloakers
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'''Defense'''

*Darkwings have a small fuel tank
*Strip your border planets from fuel
*Counterattack as soon as possible
*Lay mine belts
*Loki Class Destroyers will not decloak birdman ships
*Max out planetary defenses to prevent him from superspying you minefields
*Set the minefield-code on the highest id planet which is far away from bird ships.
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===The [[Fascists]]===

===The [[Privateers]]===
'''Offense'''
* Groundattack if nothing else.
* Watch out for the Privateer NUK Trap
* Do not tow-kill privateer ships,
* Especially not from places where lady royale classes are stationed. They will rob you dry.
* Bring highly equipped Lokis Class Destroyers with your Battlegroups. Not only one.
* The Privateer most likely has weird stolen ships he will throw at you. Expect everything.

'''Defense'''
* Loki Classes
* Minefields
* Set Starbases NUK.
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===The [[Cyborg]]===

'''Offense'''
* Kill them early if you can! The Cyborg are at their strongest later in the game, while the Lizards are strongest earliest in the game. If you are playing as the Lizards and you come across a fledgling Cyborg player, don't hesitate to destroy them - you probably won't get another chance.
* Don't make the mistake of building only T-Rexes. A single Biocide well-stocked with fighters can destroy four, maybe five T-rexes depending on their torpedo tech. A Rex-Mad-Rex or Rex-Mad-Mad combo will usually do the trick. Annihilations are somewhat easier to destroy (as they are torp ships), but they can still destroy several of your ships, so be careful.
* Don't overestimate the Cyborg, although they are your natural enemy. Cubes and starbases are hard to destroy, but all other ships are weaker than your Lizard Class Cruiser. Without his large-scale economy the Cyborg cannot produce enough fighters for the deadly Biocides, so go for fireclouds, probes and freighters.

'''Defense'''
* Take out all Firecloud Classes as soon as possible (immediately and by any means) to cut the connection to his main space, and to stop offensive minefields. Then take out all Annihilation Classes. Then the carriers.
* Beam up all fuel, supplies and colonists, and take back the planet via ground attack, as soon as it has fallen.
* Cubes have a very high fuel consumption, so their range is pretty limited without Firecloud Classes. Just let them run dry, and then gather the battlegroup that will destroy them.
* Guard starbases with torpers.

===The [[Crystals]]===

===The [[Empire|Evil Empire]]===

===The [[Robots]]===

===The [[Rebels]]===

===The [[Colonies|Missing Colonies of Man]]===

'''Offense'''
* Go for the ships supporting the Virgo Class Battlestars, like the Cobol Class, Gemini Class and Sagittarius Class.
* Always try to keep the Colonial Player on the defense, fight in his space, destroy his freighters and his economy.
* Hang around cloaked over his main bases and tow off any ship that can be destroyed. Like this you gain control over a base that is maybe (still) too hard to take.
* Only fight Virgo Classes if you have to. Do so with a T-Rex Class / Madonnzilla Class combination and a torpedo ship as backup.
* Use Mid-Tec beamed T-Rex Classes for Minesweeping.
* Never forget the main aim to colonize enemy territory, especially his starbases.

'''Defense'''
* Take out intruding Cobol Classes by any means, because they are the legs of the colonial battlegroup. Then all other supporters. Then the carriers.
* Beam up all fuel and fighter-relevant minerals from planets. Beam up colonists and take it back by ground attack, as soon as one planet has fallen.
* Guard starbases with a torper.

==Other==

=See Also=

[[Category:Player Races]]