Best defence weapons |
To put it simply on saturday i got owned.
I had 20 bases, 201 destroyers (I used no mainatince cheat) v 70 battleships (whose weapons were max tec whereas mine where lvl 20) Now i only lost 50 ships and got rid of that enemy BUT then (since i controlled both sides) i let loose a hundred fighters on the 151 remaining ships and the 20 bases.
PWNAGE! Utter choas, DEATH! all of it and more as my entire fleet was wiped out by a hundred tiny fighters, tech superiority is an advantage but i out numbered them, i had flak cannons and phased beams and strong shielding but LOST! I know there's a balance mod and i'll try it when i complete the game normally but is there a effective means of defeating such an absurdly overpowered ship that are those fighters!
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Given how much an advantage fighterss have over most ships, are defence weapons (such as flak cannon or defence beam) considered to be a waste of space?
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No, some amount of pd and pd specific ships are a normal fleet component. The best way to fix the overpowering-ness of fighters though is to quit playing stock and play BM or something.
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Plus, while PD has limited effect against stock fighters they are still about the only defense against seeking weapons such as missles and torpedos.
"Don't Panic"
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I changed some of the bigger guns to include fighters as a target.
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If you look at real life.... Fighters are the ultimate weapon in war. Fighters can kill anything and hardly ever touched. The United States is dependant on fighter planes (helicopters included) In real life, Fighter planes are the only defense against fighter planes. SAM sites and all that other crap have almost zero chance of taking one down.
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Yeah, in stock fighters have ridiculously durable weapons. and some of them do as much damage as ship weapons do.
The only counter is to make fighters that are designed to kill other fighters.