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Re: Meta-morph

Tue, 18 February 2003 12:32

johng316

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In the early stages of the game when cruisers and MMs are newly available, the Cruiser is GENERALLY the more cost-effective and combat-effective option. The initiative of the MM hull is a problem in this era.

At max tech, the cost issues are minimized because of the miniaturization of the hull cost, but who really fields front-line MMs and Cruisers in great numbers at this stage of the game? Usually, you see chaff, BBs, Nubians, and DNs.

The MM is extremely useful as a counter-design platform in the early game and even in the BB era. You can design one to take out bombers with first-shot capability. You can design one that's 98% cloaked that will lay mines or sweep (incredibly effective). In the mid-game, you can sweep almost any minefield back to 16 LY without detection, and you can lay mines behind the attacking enemy ships, cutting off their route of escape. If you're facing a cloaked enemy, you can design Anti-cloak scanning platforms loaded with your best scanners. If you're facing a FF horde, the MM with Delta torps in the early game will mow them down like grass.

The usefulness of the MM depends on the situation, but in general, I think it is FAR more valuable as an auxiliary unit than a front-line combat ship. I'd take cruisers in most situations.

John G

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		Meta-morph By: The Taubat on Mon, 17 February 2003 10:07
		Re: Meta-morph By: Crusader on Mon, 17 February 2003 23:30
		Re: Meta-morph By: Ron on Tue, 18 February 2003 10:59
		Re: Meta-morph By: Crusader on Tue, 18 February 2003 14:44
		Re: Meta-morph By: Hetzer on Tue, 18 February 2003 01:09
		Re: Meta-morph By: freakyboy on Tue, 18 February 2003 03:28
		Re: Meta-morph By: gible on Tue, 18 February 2003 04:36
		Re: Meta-morph By: The Taubat on Tue, 18 February 2003 10:17
		Re: Meta-morph By: johng316 on Tue, 18 February 2003 12:32
		Re: Meta-morph By: The Taubat on Tue, 18 February 2003 14:10
		Re: Meta-morph By: freakyboy on Tue, 18 February 2003 16:59
		Re: Meta-morph By: zoid on Wed, 19 February 2003 03:28
		Re: Meta-morph By: Hetzer on Wed, 19 February 2003 15:05
		Re: Meta-morph By: The Taubat on Wed, 19 February 2003 22:24
		Re: Meta-morph By: zoid on Fri, 21 February 2003 01:06
		Re: Meta-morph By: BackBlast on Thu, 20 February 2003 03:04
		Re: Meta-morph By: freakyboy on Thu, 20 February 2003 03:34
		Re: Meta-morph By: johng316 on Thu, 20 February 2003 10:42
		Re: Meta-morph By: zoid on Fri, 21 February 2003 00:56
		Re: Meta-morph By: yucaf on Sat, 22 February 2003 11:59
		Re: Meta-morph By: The Taubat on Thu, 20 February 2003 11:36
		Re: Meta-morph By: freakyboy on Thu, 20 February 2003 16:13
		Re: Meta-morph By: johng316 on Thu, 20 February 2003 18:25
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Tue, 16 December 2003 19:12
		Re: Meta-morph By: bigdave on Wed, 24 December 2003 06:19
		Re: Meta-morph By: Sotek on Thu, 25 December 2003 00:12
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Thu, 25 December 2003 03:15
		Re: Meta-morph By: Sotek on Thu, 25 December 2003 03:53
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Thu, 25 December 2003 21:03
		Re: Meta-morph By: Sotek on Thu, 25 December 2003 21:49
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Fri, 26 December 2003 20:46
		Re: Meta-morph By: alexdstewart on Sun, 28 December 2003 18:00
		Re: Meta-morph By: Sotek on Sat, 03 January 2004 05:38
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Sat, 03 January 2004 14:03
		Re: Meta-morph By: Sotek on Sat, 03 January 2004 14:43
		Re: Meta-morph By: alexdstewart on Sat, 03 January 2004 16:43
		Re: Meta-morph By: Sotek on Sat, 03 January 2004 18:45
		Re: Meta-morph By: Nevski on Sat, 03 January 2004 20:50
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Sun, 04 January 2004 00:32
		Re: Meta-morph By: Sotek on Sun, 04 January 2004 01:53
		Re: Meta-morph By: Orca on Sun, 04 January 2004 02:38
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Sun, 04 January 2004 00:24
		Re: Meta-morph By: Sotek on Sun, 04 January 2004 01:52
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Sun, 04 January 2004 15:22
		Re: Meta-morph By: alexdstewart on Sun, 04 January 2004 21:12
		Re: Meta-morph By: LEit on Sun, 04 January 2004 21:25
		Re: Meta-morph By: alexdstewart on Mon, 05 January 2004 21:09
		Re: Meta-morph By: Sotek on Mon, 05 January 2004 21:35
		Re: Meta-morph By: alexdstewart on Tue, 06 January 2004 00:07
		Re: Meta-morph By: Sotek on Tue, 06 January 2004 00:14
		Re: Meta-morph By: alexdstewart on Tue, 06 January 2004 00:49
		Re: Meta-morph By: timmy on Tue, 06 January 2004 04:21
		Re: Meta-morph By: iztok on Tue, 06 January 2004 08:59
		Re: Meta-morph By: alexdstewart on Tue, 06 January 2004 15:10
		Re: Meta-morph By: timmy on Wed, 07 January 2004 21:31
		Re: Meta-morph By: alexdstewart on Thu, 08 January 2004 01:11
		Re: Meta-morph By: timmy on Thu, 08 January 2004 01:34
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Fri, 09 January 2004 02:50
		Re: Meta-morph By: Kotk on Fri, 09 January 2004 09:01
		Re: Meta-morph By: LEit on Fri, 09 January 2004 09:48
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Sat, 10 January 2004 11:10
		Re: Meta-morph By: iztok on Mon, 12 January 2004 02:18
		Re: Meta-morph By: Kotk on Mon, 12 January 2004 07:12
		Re: Meta-morph By: schpat on Fri, 23 January 2004 05:24
		Battle simulator (Re: Meta-morph) By: Micha on Fri, 23 January 2004 06:04
		Re: Battle simulator (Re: Meta-morph) By: iztok on Fri, 23 January 2004 10:11
		Re: Battle simulator (Re: Meta-morph) By: Micha on Fri, 23 January 2004 11:09
		Re: Meta-morph By: zoid on Sat, 03 January 2004 05:17
		Re: Meta-morph By: Sotek on Sat, 03 January 2004 05:36
		Re: Meta-morph By: zoid on Mon, 19 January 2004 21:54
		Re: Meta-morph By: iztok on Tue, 20 January 2004 09:00
		Re: Meta-morph By: zoid on Tue, 20 January 2004 20:01
		Re: Meta-morph By: iztok on Wed, 21 January 2004 04:53
		Re: Meta-morph By: LEit on Wed, 21 January 2004 09:33
		Re: Meta-morph By: mlaub on Wed, 21 January 2004 12:06
		Re: Meta-morph By: LEit on Wed, 21 January 2004 12:39
		Re: Meta-morph By: mlaub on Wed, 21 January 2004 14:04
		Re: Meta-morph By: Kotk on Wed, 21 January 2004 15:09
		Re: Meta-morph By: iztok on Fri, 23 January 2004 03:36
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Fri, 23 January 2004 03:50
		Re: Meta-morph By: iztok on Fri, 23 January 2004 09:43
		Re: Meta-morph By: Kotk on Sun, 25 January 2004 06:15
		Re: Meta-morph By: mlaub on Sun, 25 January 2004 16:19
		Re: Meta-morph By: Kotk on Mon, 26 January 2004 05:44
		Re: Meta-morph By: iztok on Sun, 25 January 2004 20:04
		Re: Meta-morph By: alexdstewart on Sun, 25 January 2004 21:11
		Re: Meta-morph By: iztok on Mon, 26 January 2004 05:26
		Re: Meta-morph By: alexdstewart on Sun, 25 January 2004 21:22
		Re: Meta-morph By: Kotk on Mon, 26 January 2004 06:32
		Re: Meta-morph By: iztok on Mon, 26 January 2004 09:48
		Re: Meta-morph By: Kotk on Mon, 26 January 2004 13:04
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Mon, 26 January 2004 17:11
		Re: Meta-morph By: iztok on Wed, 28 January 2004 02:34
		Re: Meta-morph By: Kotk on Wed, 28 January 2004 07:20
		Re: Meta-morph By: iztok on Wed, 28 January 2004 09:15
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Fri, 30 January 2004 04:00
		Re: Meta-morph By: Kotk on Fri, 30 January 2004 11:59
		Re: Meta-morph By: zoid on Fri, 30 January 2004 17:59
		Re: Meta-morph By: Sotek on Fri, 30 January 2004 20:18
		Re: Meta-morph By: Kotk on Sat, 31 January 2004 07:02
		Re: Meta-morph By: Sotek on Sat, 31 January 2004 07:31
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Fri, 30 January 2004 20:41
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Fri, 30 January 2004 20:19
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Wed, 21 January 2004 15:23
		Re: Meta-morph By: Sotek on Mon, 19 January 2004 23:27
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Tue, 20 January 2004 00:20
		Re: Meta-morph By: alexdstewart on Tue, 20 January 2004 20:18
		Re: Meta-morph By: timmy on Tue, 20 January 2004 21:02
		Re: Meta-morph By: zoid on Tue, 20 January 2004 22:09
		Re: Meta-morph By: zoid on Tue, 20 January 2004 22:40
		Re: Meta-morph By: Sotek on Wed, 21 January 2004 17:20
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Wed, 21 January 2004 18:13
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Wed, 21 January 2004 18:29
		Re: Meta-morph By: Sotek on Wed, 21 January 2004 22:35
		Re: Meta-morph By: multilis on Thu, 22 January 2004 00:12
		Re: Meta-morph By: Steve1 on Thu, 22 January 2004 10:26
		Re: Meta-morph By: Steve1 on Fri, 23 January 2004 10:53
		battle sim (Re: Meta-morph) By: Micha on Fri, 23 January 2004 10:59
		Re: Meta-morph By: mlaub on Fri, 23 January 2004 16:16
		Re: Meta-morph By: Steve1 on Fri, 23 January 2004 11:08
		Re: Meta-morph By: Steve1 on Fri, 23 January 2004 11:13

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