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DN vs Nubian Mon, 06 October 2003 18:55 Go to previous message
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It's old and it's a relatively tired subject but why not post it up on here...

Nubian Vs WM dreadnaught.


Nubian better than DN

More versatile
More Armour (ship hull)
Can mount a decent number of beam deflectors
Gateable
Cheaper

DN better than Nub
2x 8x weapon slot
2x 6x weapon slot
2x 5x weapon slot - i.e. excellent missile platform.
Can mount 38 weapons. Same number of weapons on a nub leaves 1 free 3x slot
Higher base init (fires first in a beamer battle)


The way I figure it is as such....

If you want high stacks of armour and sheilding - the DN is king
If you want sheer firepower DN is still king (38 beam weapons + 8x capacitors = big bang)
If you want a missile platform - DN is king.

But not all battles are about firepower or damage absorbtion. The nubian is gateable and most of all you can REDUCE the enemy's ability to hurt you: less sheilds and/or armour, but it's not as required.

A Nubian will more than likely cost alot less too (a 10 decrease in incoming damage costs 2 resources at max tech - you do the math on the sheilds vs beam deflector ratio for best performance) than a DN.

But there's the phsychological effect of 1000 DN's heading for you. 1000 nubians is bad.... but 1000 DN's is scary.

As a slight note... 1000 DN's with a full payload of missiles can take out 38,000 chaff with the first volley - that's basically all the chaff in a fleet unless you bring alot of fleets/designs of chaff.

Personally I'd design unattractive DN's and use them as a missile platform (artillery if you will) and then build chaff and nubs to sap up the enemy firepower (a max tech DN loaded with a galaxy scoop, armageddon missiles, 2x jammer 30's and 8 sheilds costs 1104 resources) - downside is it costs about 2000kt of Ironium and it's so heavy you can forget stargating.


What do you guys think?

If you don't rate the DN at all as a missile platform thanks to it's lack of gatability - then what would you use for a missile platform?

For a gateable missile platform i l
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