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Re: When to build up defense? Thu, 01 April 2004 18:22 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Still think beta torp DDs are a viable tactic?



Yes. I have done it. Of course you WANT delta torps. If we are talking about WANTS I would much rather have Jihads on Battleships. Smile

If we are talking stacks... You have a stack of ships shooting as well so you kill ships. Bigger stacks actually favour beta torps over beamers compared to single ships, you can't kill 10% of a single ship.

You usually don't bother with battle computers, germ is worth too much at that stage. Your destroyer of frigate tends to have 2 beta torps on it (on a frigate 2 beta torps gets .25 movement over 3). You do an average of around 10 damage with the 2 torps.

For the first number of turns, your ships are doing damage and your opponents aren't. So his ship counts are going down.

There are tricks such as retreating decoy flak to stretch this out. By the time his stack reaches you (if it is big enough to survive), you may have disengage retreated out of the battle. Lots of fun, best enemy can hope for is really fast engines and/or a warmonger to transfer the ships to.


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