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Re: When to build up defense?

Thu, 01 April 2004 17:47

alric

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If you're using beta torp DDs vs Shielded frigates, you're seriously behind in the tech war. You generally see lots of shielded frigates at weap 8, you should at least be at weap 8 yourself, which means only a couple of years off weap 10. If you're the one pushing, you don't push beta DDs vs shielded frigates. You want deltas at least. Beta torp has power 12 and base accuracy of 45% Even with 2 computers, you get accuracy of 65%

Half damage vs shields so 6 damage per torp hit and DDs only have single weapon slots.
You need 8 hits to take out just 1 shielded FF. That's 12 torps fired. But damage is spread through all of the ships in the FF stack. Say you get the 1st 2 shots off before the FFs shoot back. You need 3 times as many DDs to FFs for a realistic fight. You do the math on minerals and resources needed.

Still think beta torp DDs are a viable tactic?

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		Hull musings 2 By: multilis on Thu, 01 April 2004 11:01
		Re: When to build up defense? By: Ptolemy on Thu, 01 April 2004 11:18
		Re: When to build up defense? By: alric on Thu, 01 April 2004 12:24
		Re: When to build up defense? By: multilis on Thu, 01 April 2004 13:31
		Re: When to build up defense? By: alric on Thu, 01 April 2004 17:47
		Re: When to build up defense? By: multilis on Thu, 01 April 2004 18:22
		Re: When to build up defense? By: LEit on Thu, 01 April 2004 20:39
		Re: When to build up defense? By: Ptolemy on Thu, 01 April 2004 21:31
		Re: When to build up defense? By: Ptolemy on Thu, 01 April 2004 21:45
		Re: When to build up defense? By: xdude on Thu, 01 April 2004 21:53
		Re: When to build up defense? By: multilis on Fri, 02 April 2004 01:34
		Re: When to build up defense? By: iztok on Fri, 02 April 2004 04:16
		Re: When to build up defense? By: multilis on Fri, 02 April 2004 09:17
		Re: When to build up defense? By: Orca on Fri, 02 April 2004 10:42
		Re: When to build up defense? By: multilis on Fri, 02 April 2004 11:27
		Re: When to build up defense? By: LEit on Fri, 02 April 2004 12:14
		Re: When to build up defense? By: multilis on Fri, 02 April 2004 12:48
		Re: When to build up defense? By: Orca on Sat, 03 April 2004 11:07
		Re: When to build up defense? By: multilis on Sat, 03 April 2004 11:28
		Re: When to build up defense? By: Kotk on Sun, 04 April 2004 11:59
		Re: When to build up defense? By: multilis on Sun, 04 April 2004 12:56
		Re: When to build up defense? By: Kotk on Sun, 04 April 2004 14:52
		Re: When to build up defense? By: multilis on Sun, 04 April 2004 15:31
		Re: When to build up defense? By: Kotk on Sun, 04 April 2004 17:34
		Re: When to build up defense? By: Kotk on Sun, 04 April 2004 18:01
		Re: When to build up defense? By: multilis on Sun, 04 April 2004 19:00
		Re: When to build up defense? By: Dogthinkers on Sun, 04 April 2004 20:26
		Re: When to build up defense? By: LEit on Sun, 04 April 2004 20:54
		Re: When to build up defense? By: Orca on Sun, 04 April 2004 21:41
		Re: When to build up defense? By: Dogthinkers on Mon, 05 April 2004 00:36
		Re: When to build up defense? By: Dogthinkers on Mon, 05 April 2004 00:42
		Re: When to build up defense? By: Kotk on Mon, 05 April 2004 08:26
		Re: When to build up defense? By: multilis on Mon, 05 April 2004 09:30
		Re: When to build up defense? By: multilis on Thu, 08 April 2004 12:38
		Re: When to build up defense? By: iztok on Thu, 08 April 2004 14:27
		Re: When to build up defense? By: multilis on Thu, 08 April 2004 14:47
		Re: When to build up defense? By: iztok on Thu, 08 April 2004 17:58
		Re: When to build up defense? By: multilis on Thu, 08 April 2004 18:59
		Re: When to build up defense? By: iztok on Fri, 09 April 2004 03:27
		Re: When to build up defense? By: iztok on Fri, 09 April 2004 04:33
		Re: When to build up defense? By: Kotk on Fri, 09 April 2004 07:31
		Re: When to build up defense? By: multilis on Fri, 09 April 2004 12:31
		Re: When to build up defense? By: Kotk on Sun, 11 April 2004 12:43
		Re: When to build up defense? By: overworked on Sun, 04 April 2004 15:40
		Re: When to build up defense? By: multilis on Sun, 04 April 2004 16:29
		Re: When to build up defense? By: iztok on Fri, 02 April 2004 13:38
		Re: When to build up defense? By: multilis on Fri, 02 April 2004 17:16
		Re: Hull musings By: joseph on Fri, 02 April 2004 14:13
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