| Re: How to catch cloaked sweepers? |
Thu, 23 July 2009 17:14   |
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| Eagle of Fire | 
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Until Nubs are out, only SS can efficiently send cloaked sweepers. If your opponent is not SS then it is likely that the max they can cloak their ship is around 80%, which greatly increase their chance of being spotted with random scanning.
Also, if you have NAS then you don't calculate 98% (which is the max cloaking which can be achieved) out of the 335, but out of the 670ly. This mean that you will be able to spot cloaked fleet at a range of 13ly instead of 12. A normal player before Nubs can usually max cloak at 97%, increasing your detection range.
I would not recommend building that much ships simply to have a "sensor net" unless you absolutely need it. The best way to prevent sweepers from entering your territory is to lay small fields which cover the entirety of the entry of your territory, and preferably more than one row. This way you can see better where they sweep, and can send scout ships to try to catch them off guard. Once you see one then you can send an interception ship to catch them.
Most cloaked sweeper are extremely weak, usually either not carrying much weapons at all or using cheap gattling to sweep a big radius with reduced cost. This mean that a weak ship can usually take care of them easily.
Consider fielding specialised cloaked interceptors which sports mine layers. Being cloaked will prevent them to see you, which increase your chances to catch them as they might simply fly right next to your detection range without noticing or expecting a cloaked counter measure. The reason of the mine layers would be that space mining occurs at WP0 while movement occur later: a cloaked ship not expecting the creation of a new mine field might just crash into one. A cloaked ship not exploding on the first hit would be greatly damaged, increasing the paranoia of the opponent. This could lead him to retreat some or all of his sweepers, or to be more carefull which can also lead to having him delaying his sweeping efforts.
As always, don't forget that the psychological war can always work both ways. 
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