| Re: Tachyon Detectors |
Mon, 28 April 2003 16:50  |
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| Micha | 
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| freakyboy wrote on Mon, 28 April 2003 20:04 |
Realistically...
What you need is a nubian that can scan 37 light years (preferable penertratingly so) against a 98% cloaked vessel. That way even an SD cannot get close to the ship without risking hitting mines - this is a good thing :¬)
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I *think* that this is the cheapest design capable of 38ly pen scanning against a 98% cloak. I challenge anyone to find a cheaper design (if you do I'm really happy  )
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Why stop 38/56ly? People can crash sweep from much larger distances, either go as far as you can or don't even try it. Which means load up your nub with as many TDs as is usefull (6 slots was it?), load the rest of the slots with scanners. True it will be an expensive ship but such dedicated designs are the best for the job.
As for cloacking them, don't put the cloacks on the ship, that's wasting scanning power, merge them with an OC (you should have them anyway). A few fleets of a pair of these ships (OC+scanner) spread across your space and at the borders is very nice. An enemy that does not know that he has been spotted can easily be lured into a trap. If he knows he is seen he will back off ...
I haven't played an IS before, and only had them very few times as ally, and only once far into the nub era and that was a long time ago. So my advice is more in general, when building a dedicated ship, go ALL the way. I've used nubs fully loaded with peerless scanners for instance, with NAS almost 49ly scanning against 98% cloacked ships, very expensive eyes! Close to 3500 resources and 1000kT germ.
So I can people imagine thinking: put some shields on them, and jets so they can escape, but that means that a full nub can see your scanner from 49ly while you can only see that nub from let's say 40ly, IOW you don't know you have been seen and your enemy can prepare to kill your expensive ship anyway ...
But like always, the design will depend on the situation, and of course you need to have nubs and peerless scanners before you can ev
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