| Re: Beams - DN or BB |
Mon, 26 June 2006 20:16   |
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| joseph wrote on Mon, 26 June 2006 02:37 |
b) Build BB beamers because they are gateable and as such even though they are only 1/4 as good as DNs they can be in "several" places in the time it takes a DN to get there.
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I think the answer to your question is buried in this statement - If the DNs are that much more effective, then they can also quite literally be in more than one place at once - you can build two or more fleets each with greater power than the combined BB fleet would have had anyway...
Supposing that the DNs are 4x as effective, as you say, then the BBs would only start to become interesting defensively if you needed to cover five or more fronts at once. Even then it's not an easy decision.
BBs are also interesting if you need to get ships to the front extremely quickly. Although the gatable-with-losses style of designs above are probably more efficient there.
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