Posted by: Charlie Beeler
« on: November 26, 2012, 01:23:04 PM »Being able to engage your enemy at extreme range is a huge advantage missiles give you. Yes, you can design ships with absurd point defense, but even those can be overwhelmed with volume. There's a reason blue water navies don't field battleships anymore.
Right up to the point that the OPFOR knows your designed engagement range and designs to use superior EW to deny you the use of an average of 20% of your deployed smallcraft missile fire controls. No absurd PD needed with sufficient data to design against. The Achilles Heel of smallcraft is that they average being 2 tech levels behind fullsized EW systems.
In this case blue water naval operations do not reference well to Aurora.
The beauty of Aurora is that there is no pat design path. To truly find how flexible the system is, play the NPR's and not use the AI.