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Re: "New" player

Mon, 20 May 2019 09:45

magic9mushroom

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Loïc wrote on Wed, 19 December 2018 03:46

I agree with you on the point that the expansive research for weapons or for all is interesting as it prevent the game for being quickly just a big battle with massive fleets of battleships with shaff.

Eh. Chaff is overrated. Of the five eras of Stars! warfare (pre-cruiser, cruiser, early battleship, late battleship, nubian), there are only two when it's useful (late battleship, where it's indeed very important, and nubian, when it's substantially less so but at least of some use).

A lot of people think chaff is decent in the early BB era. It is not. A battleship with six Jammers 20 absorbs more Juggernaut Missiles than its cost in chaff - ergo, there is no point in building chaff. It's only when Doomsday Missiles appear that chaff becomes relevant, and when Armageddon Missiles appear that it becomes vital. In the nubian era, a beamer nubian does not absorb quite as many missiles/torps as its cost in chaff (due to the massive drop in chaff cost when weap/con are both maxed), but it's close and chaff's vulnerabilities (e.g. not being mineproof or Warp-10-safe, chaff-shredders) and the potential for beamer nubians to be under 200kT (thus removing the gateability and Dock-buildability advantages of chaff over BBs) make it a less attractive option.

Weapons forced expensive does basically remove the late BB era, which is indeed the period when chaff is most useful, but it's hardly a dominating force forever.

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		Re: "New" player By: ccmaster on Fri, 01 February 2019 08:03
		Re: "New" player By: magic9mushroom on Mon, 20 May 2019 09:45
		Re: "New" player By: magic9mushroom on Tue, 21 May 2019 00:27
		Re: "New" player By: Loïc on Wed, 19 December 2018 11:51
		Re: "New" player By: Loïc on Fri, 01 February 2019 15:27
		Re: "New" player By: ricks03 on Mon, 11 February 2019 17:49
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		Re: "New" player By: magic9mushroom on Tue, 21 May 2019 10:52
		Re: "New" player By: Altruist on Fri, 24 May 2019 13:34
		Re: "New" player By: magic9mushroom on Sat, 25 May 2019 07:11
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		Re: "New" player By: magic9mushroom on Mon, 27 May 2019 23:19
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