| How to catch cloaked sweepers? |
Wed, 22 July 2009 17:30  |
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I have a number of cloaked sweepers running around behind my front lines. (At least I think so)
I am getting messages saying that minefields in my interior are getting swept. I can see the fields shrinking.
How do I catch those sweepers?
It would seem I need to do 2 things:
1. Have enuf minelayers in the vicinity to pinpoint sweeper location using the intersection point of 2 swept fields. (preferably 3 swept fields..)
2. Set up a sensor net around that location to catch the sweeper the next turn.
What is the general consensus on fighting this problem. This is the 1st game I have been in, where it is more than just a minor annoyance. Should I:
1. Just build more minelayers to maintain my fields.
2. Spend the micromanagement time to accomplish the above?
The only reason to really be worried if fields are maintained, is that you can't tell the difference between an strike fleet and a lone sweeper, but then a strike fleet would approach with sweeping off anyways.
My best scanner is only the eagle eye at 335 ly, so with NAS that is only a 6 ly radius (or is it rounded up to 7ly?), for a 12 ly diameter of scans. Say an 8 ly spacing of ships, to set up a 128x128 ly grid would take 16x16 = 256 ships. (I know, it is a circle, not a square...) (so really only 3.14/4 x 256) Seems too much work and too many fleets with only this scanner. (Any advice on exactly how to calculate and set up the scanning net?)
It would seem worthwhile to set up a sensor grid to protect an AR HW mining site. Does anyone do it for cloaked sweepers?
naz
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