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| Dark_Traveller wrote on Sat, 18 October 2003 18:17 |
Thanks for the welcome. True the expense of multitask DD is step but a capital ship missile puts half its damage into Shields and Half into Armor only doubles when the shields are down. With a base of 200 armor,a light cheap armor(organic), and a Jammer this keeps the one ship one missile damage down, when stacked.
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Given the expense at this point I think that this is still an inefficient design for 'chaff' usage. (And I'll take this up elsewhere.)
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Now the cheap build of a Frigate will allow a larger fleet which can cause the same effect when split. I have been experimenting on a chaff fleet with a Alpha missile(something cheap) since it appears Capital ship fleets sometimes will target larger ships first over the chaff until the chaff moves within close range.
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Targeting is based on a known formula. Bora cost + res cost of target divided by defense points (dp adjusted for such things as jamming, computers, shielding, etc.) If the chaff isn't in range yet, then the other ships will be shot at. And putting Alpha torps on a chaff fleet strikes me as being rather expensive in Iron - which is probably better spent on more combat hulls.
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I do have a question though, do you use the frigate style ship for anything other than chaff?
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The answer to this varies greatly on period of the game and the race that I have. For WM designs I'd have to say the frigate hull is fairly under-utilized after the mid-game except as an expendable scout or for chaff. For non-WM and non-SD it's probably in use for most of the game as a minelayer hull. (And I'll carry this part of the discussion to another forum - probably the Academy since it's become a generic hull discussion and not WM-specific.
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Re: The Barbarian Hoard
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