which is best?

It really depends on what you play: stock, BM, DevnullMod, Gidmod,...
Generally in stock, fighters rock. Drones are very good in BM and some other Mods. There is a thread somewhere...
Sats are generally good for warp point defence and as sensor arrays.

dont use sats much except as cheap planet missile defense, having 20 sats with CSM's can spoil or at least slow down an attack force while ground based defenses pound em to.

fighters less usefull for planetary defense as they rush ahead of everything and get massacred, btr in space battles with support ships and missiles flying.

nvr realy use drones but there are creative ways to do so... load up a freighter with missile armed drones and watch the slaughter... drones take up very little room so u can load far more drones with CSM's than any ship can mount itself, i.e frighter could hav 2 or 3 CSM's but can launch 20 drones each with 1 or 2... that much massed firepower will overwhelm point defense and smash everything, also drones much faster than anything except fighters so they wont get shot in return.

Sensor Satallites are excellent for surveying your own territory (especially when your opponent uses cloaks) and they are easy to set up as well (build a single satallite on every planet for only one turn).

Fighters are more flexible on offense/defense. I only use sats as sensor buoys as Khizlek says. Drones and mines are a waste of precious unit limit space.

I personally perfer fighters. They're really efficient on offense and defense. The only things I use the satallites for is sensors and defense. Drones I've never tried, but I'm sure you could get them to be useful for something.

Sorry, lagged and double-posted.

I imagine one could use drones as ICBMs but I never bothered with them either.

i find drones to be a bit too pricey to be really usefull..(long to produce.. keep their tech lvl low!) but i like them as decoys; they go first in the fray, and are fast and hard-ish to hit.. and also hard-ish to take down (being equiped with good hardware) and are targeted by pretty much everything.. with a big enough cloud, you can keep the ennemies weapons and PDs busy so you can move in without any returning fire.

But their beahvior is weird.. sometimes ureliable..
I find it satisfying when i launch a whole cloud of them, they really fit my idea of long range missiles (with kamikze warheads)

Otherwise, i use them just as decoys and LR support fire.

Without ammo, nice guns are just sophisticated clubs.

Switch to no ammo weapons.

I believe thats part of his signature, Vince

Ha ha

That is correct Astorax.
Sorry for the confusion.

Without ammo, nice guns are just sophisticated clubs.

Many people use a seperator line to avoid confusion.

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