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I'll start by saying I like HE. I'm a newbie in terms of my stars! playing experience. I'm in my first PBEM game, I'm also playing HE. Though I have done much analysis in the art of logistics and ship design.

The first problem that I see with the comparisons so far are the focuses on base armor and initiative. Let us look at the strengths of each hull. Cruiser has indeed higher initiative (5 vs 2), and a slightly higher base armor (700 vs 500). The cruiser also only get 2 elect/mec slots and 2 general slots as opposed to the versatile Meta Morph. This seems somewhat akin to BB vs Nubian, though a slightly less important (one race gets Metas) and different question (ever so slightly). Nubians get their advantage from not the number of weapons, but from defensive systems and their price. So lets make all out war vehicles with both of them.

I'm going to assume tech 12 everything. For simplicity, I will have no miniturization (I don't want to make a test bed with exactly tech 12 everywhere, heh).

We'll start with missles since everyone is oddly fond of them... (I think this design was used in an earlier post)

Jihad CC:
2x Alpha 8
2x SBC
2x Bear
6x Jihad
700 armor, 200 shields
302 I 83 B 126 G 263 R

Jihad MM:
3x Alpha 8
4x SBC
3x Bear
2x J 20
5x Jihad
500 armor, 300 shields
296 I 77 B 188 G 389 R

So we can now decide what we want to make the limiting factor. In the particular era it would probably be resources for an HE who gets to make this choice. 263/389 is roughly equal to 6/9. So 9 cruisers 263*9 = 2367 R and 9 Metas 389*2334 R. 2 runs gives me the same results, 6 Metas at 33-36% damage, and 9 dead cruisers. Don't even get my started on how much more Iron the CCs are using. More computers would have helped the design though. Germ cost is about at the same proportions as the resources. The important thing that swings things the Metas way is the jamming in this scenario. I like only having 5 jihads in the 8 slot to balance iron cost for the defences available
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