 minigun frigate chaff |
Sun, 20 January 2008 20:14  |
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FF+QJ5+Minigun
Wonderfull.
Once you are in the BB era it's only a couple of resources more than regular scout chaff.
It's a totally disposible minesweeper. They kill over 200 mines each, yet they are cheap enough you can throw them at fields like crash sweepers. 2000 mine field? Just throw in 20/25 of these into it at warp 8/9 - it'll be gone next year and you'll still have 10 left.
Less attractive than scout chaff (so the cheaper scouts get shot first in battle if you bring both,) yet thanks to the extra bor cost it remains attractive enough to draw fire away from your beam BBs. It still has the extra armour to make it expensive to kill with dedicated chaff killers.
The range 2 beam even makes it a plausible freighter / minelayer killer if your opponent exposes them (I know, not very effective, but it worked several times in the game I just played.)
If your opponent tries to skirmish with them you can just overwhelm them with targets since they are so cheap... And if they are busy eating them, you can just group them all to one place occaisionaly, and laugh as your 'chaff' chews through all their unmerged skirmishers thanks to the 'shoot everything in range' gatling ability and high init.
I've used gatling chaff before, in late game, for the same purposes... But they were a bit frustrating to use because they were more attractive than scout chaff, so I had to remember to keep them out of battle if I thought I had enough scout chaff... No such problem here.
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