Freighter Chaff |
Tue, 24 February 2009 23:18 |
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Is there such a thing as freighter chaff? Is there any way to protect pop freighters from kamikaze with other freighters?
And if so how?
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Re: Freighter Chaff |
Wed, 25 February 2009 17:02 |
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would dd shells with 1 xray and 1 cargo pod be good to protect galleons?
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Re: Freighter Chaff |
Wed, 25 February 2009 20:42 |
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A DD with a cargo pod would be a freighter and would draw missle fire from missle ships set to frieghters/bombers. But why use that instead of a scout. It would be more expensive, and be less attractive.
The moment you put an xray on it, it would not be a freighter any more.
But you have hit upon perhaps the best way to protect frieghters (other than *not being there!!*)
Use a galleon, or nubian, and put a missle in one slot. Then the ship is no longer a frieghter. It is a warship. Give it lots of manuvering jets (6 OTs will do), so it has a 2 1/2 battle speed *loaded*. This becomes an almost impossible ship to kill in any large battle, unless the rest of the fleet is heavily outnumbered. Just give your fast armed frieghters a retreat fire battle order. (They may even score a few hits before they go)
Mind you this kind of a ship is expensive, compared to your normal freighter. But it may be worth it for certain circumstances, for example the IS orgy, or at least the forward part of that orgy.
naz
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Re: Freighter Chaff |
Fri, 27 February 2009 22:10 |
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6. Colonizer.
I would consolidate these 6 into 3 designs.
1. IS10 superfreighter for main orgy. I know it is expensive, and you have to scrap all the earlier ones, but it is worth saving a slot. You could carry the cheap one for a while as a 4th design, depending on other needs.
2. Combat freighter (galleon)with 1 range 6 missle, 6 OTs and colonizer module.
3. Tachyon scanner freighter (or nubian)
3 ships saved:
no need for the frieghter chaff.
no need for the colonizer
ditch the cheap early superfreighter in favour of the IS10 design.
I try and play with one spy, and one frieghter/colonizer design in most games I play, but I *often* end up with a third.
naz
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