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Re: DDs and FFs: Small hulls in the BB era and beyond |
Thu, 30 October 2003 07:02 |
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iztok | | Commander | Messages: 1207
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Hi!
Quote: | ...which brings me to another merit of DDs or FFs in lategame: cheaper for simpler tasks. Don't send a man to do a boys work, if you get what I mean
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Perfectly! In the current game (large sparse uni) I'm playing an HP IS and am fighting an advanced SD. I did quite a study of what sweeper would be the best for late game. Here are some designs:
1. DD as sweeper/light skirmisher: DD, Heavy Blaster, tech 14 sapper, AD-8 engine, tech-10 shield, organic armor, capacitor.
Pros: good sweeping and sapping, kills his sweepers with r-2 weapon.
Con's: mineral and res expensive, can't catch his 2.5 speed super-minelayers.
2. FF: single Heavy Blaster, 2 crobbys, FM.
Pros: quite cheap, kills his sweepers.
Con's: low speed, armor and fuel, bad skirmisher.
3. DD sweeper: 2 Gattling, 2 organic, tech-14 shield, TGSS-12 engine, OT.
Pros: durable, big sweeper.
Con's: mineral and res expensive, can't catch his 2.5 speed super-minelayers, can't kill his sweepers.
4. DD sweeper V2: 2 miniguns, crobby, FM.
Pros: dirt cheap, esp. germ; in pairs survives minehit.
Con's: who cares, it's throw-away design.
Since I couldn't catch his SMLs with any DD/FF design I decided to build just the cheapest sweeper, coupled with a CC skirmisher with 4 MegaDisruptors, 2 tech-21 sappers, 2 OTs, 2 tech-18 shields and TGSS-12 engine, that can catch his SMLs AND can escape most ships. Now I can combine both designs when sweeping: If he has not 2.5 speed R3 ships in defense I sweep with CCs at W-6, set to chicken. Else I throw close to the center of his heavy minefield a dozen of pairs of DDs. A half got destroyed, some are stopped in normal field, but about one third gets through and does its job. Big MM needed though My advice: avoid war with SD, if you don't like MM.
BR, Iztok
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