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Re: Capital ships and escort ships

Sun, 30 September 2007 21:16

gwellman

Petty Officer 1st Class

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Registered: January 2007
Location: Seattle, WA

I'll give a description of an arms race in a recent game that shows both "smaller can be better" and "bigger can be better". This should give Machalot some ideas about how different hulls can be used against each other, and when smaller can be better.

One player playing a -f race planned a cruiser horde as follows:
CC, TGSS, 2xOT, 4x MkIV, 3x Bear, 1x Jammer20. He had RS.
For the money, a very capable ship (speed 2.5 for rushing in on missle ships, does plenty of damage, cheap, can be built at Docks (he had ISB) and at mass 148 is convenient for gating through the 150/600 gate). So, it's a ship that can do well in "the cruiser era", but can also do well in hordes against BBs later.

Well, it worked pretty well as he first deployed them, but without missles in his arsenal, his opponents defended with ... wait for it ... miniblaster frigates. With RS too, a FF with a relatively cheap engine, 2x Bear, 3x miniblaster turned out to be a cost-effective defense.

Meanwhile, two other players were researching like mad, and got lucky with tech from the M.T. Those two players fielded Doomsday BBs and MegaD BBs (16 Dooms or MegaDs, 4 SychroSappers). Ultimately, the BBs won the game, but really it was because they had higher tech weapons, not because they were bigger. (But of course those higher tech weapons go better on a big hull with lots of electrical gadgets.) Also, this shows the strength of fielding a beamer design *and* missle design together.

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		Re: Capital ships and escort ships By: Machalot on Fri, 28 September 2007 04:15
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		Re: Capital ships and escort ships By: AlexTheGreat on Sat, 29 September 2007 16:41
		Re: Capital ships and escort ships By: Machalot on Sat, 29 September 2007 18:54
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		Re: Capital ships and escort ships By: m.a@stars on Sun, 30 September 2007 04:05
		Re: Capital ships and escort ships By: Machalot on Fri, 28 September 2007 20:56
		Re: Capital ships and escort ships By: gwellman on Fri, 28 September 2007 21:58
		Re: Capital ships and escort ships By: Machalot on Fri, 28 September 2007 22:34
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