| Re: How to catch cloaked sweepers? |
Thu, 23 July 2009 06:32   |
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 iztok |
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Messages: 1211
Registered: April 2003
Location: Slovenia, Europe | |
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Hi!
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I have a number of cloaked sweepers running around behind my front lines.
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Fighting highly-cloaked sweepers is an expensive task. You need to invest in counter-measures significantly more resources, minerals, MM and free fleet slots, than your opponent has invested in cloaked sweepers.  BTW I use it whenever I can.  "Unfortunately" there are only SS and HE that can do it effectively before nubs are out.
There are some things you can do against cloaked sweepers (ordered by increasing costs):- make peace with your opponent.
- ignore him. That's dangerous, because you allow him free movement in your territory, and you never know what's behind those cloaked sweepers.
- trade for Tachion detectors from the IS. A galleon with 8 TDs, 2 Cheetahs and NAS should see an 98% clokaed ship 91 LY far. That's the cheapest way to stop his sweeping operations. Actually TD totally ruins MOST cloaked operations.
After this there are just high-costs possibilities and combos:- ask SD friend to cover that area with lots of detonating minefilds. With time opponent will need to withdraw, or lose his sweepers to accumulated damage.
- if his sweeping power is low, lay big minefields around your planets in the area and in biggest gaps among planets.
- cover your area with many overlapping small minefields, laid by cheap minelayers. This will reveal approximate position of his sweepers and decrease his ability to move around.
- cover "infected" area with lots of cheap scanner ships (like FF with 2 or 5 RNA or Gazelle), and move them randomly around. However for this task to be effective, you need either NAS or a JoaT friend to cover that area with lots of his chaff.
- have fleets of interceptors ready to hit any revealed sweeper from many directions, so it doesn't cloak again.
- have there small fleet of heavy warships to attack his (probable) reinforcements or cloaked planet raiders, and finally
- attack him, so his main force is tied to your attack, instead your main force to his harrasing.
BR, Iztok
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