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Re: Taking down an SD

Sat, 10 May 2003 13:30

tprescott

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I like stacks of 5 DDs for the regular fields. 5 gives best distributed damage for longevity, but even just a pair will survive one hit (better shields will help out). Use 2 beams and a shield (at least 50 dp) with a no-ramscoop engine. The additional armor is optional. I would go without it for better fuel economy and battle speed. Without additional armor, the stack of five will take 4 mine hits. Send multiple stacks at the the mine layers at best warp. Some stacks will hit a mine and stop short - taking mine damage twice if the field also detonates. But others will make it all the way to the layers to kill them.

For heavy mines, you could try a stack of 5 CCs in the same manner as above - but you would want 500 dp shields on each CC to minimize the hull damage. By this approach, the stack would survive the first heavy hit but the second hit would kill it. Not much longevity for the investment I think.

Alternately, you could stick with the DDs and send them in individually - crash-sweep style - and accept the losses of those that hit mines. I like this approach as is does not require an additional design slot.

Tom

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