A thoughest enemy never seen before..

[waresky (OP)]

A strange 60.000tons-Class (probable an Parassite Carriers because ive show around 20-800tons fastGunboat,..) r ACTUALLY (am in combat from half hour:)..) resist from 3 Squadroon of 12's ships same as:

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HMS Arleigh Burke II class Missile Frigate    4200 tons     422 Crew     2341.12 BP      TCS 84  TH 180  EM 0
8928 km/s    JR 3-50     Armour 1-23     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 5     PPV 8
Annual Failure Rate: 25%    IFR: 0.4%    Maint Capacity 2916 MSP    Max Repair 900 MSP    Est Time: 4.53 Years
Magazine 239    

J4200(3-50) Military Jump Drive     Max Ship Size 4200 tons    Distance 50k km     Squadron Size 3
M-Newark III SCAM Drive E3.75 (3)    Power 250    Fuel Use 37.5%    Signature 60    Armour 0    Exp 20%
Fuel Capacity 150,000 Litres    Range 171.4 billion km   (222 days at full power)

ASL-2 R9 Launcher (4)    Missile Size 2    Rate of Fire 10
AS900 Missile Fire Control FC180-R18 (50%) (1)     Range 97.2m km    Resolution 18
AS Sidewinder 2 T2 (119)  Speed: 80,000 km/s   End: 30m    Range: 144m km   WH: 8    Size: 2    TH: 533 / 320 / 160

Active Search Sensor S600-R108M (50%) (1)     GPS 10800     Range 108.0m km    Resolution 18

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes

ive discharge ALL ordnance up this Carrier..so 12 ship*119 missile..!!!! and this damned r now near my entry Jumpgate:)..NOW this dastardly loose some fluid..

Argh..damn Steve's EvilMind:D..

[Hawkeye]

[spoiler:28gxg18i]Yep, mothership of the FACs. It´s shields are incredible!
Fought one of those, fortunately not too close to home in my last game. Managed it by keeping my torpedo cruisers at 130k and punding it for half an hour .

In my newest game, I have just destroyed the FACs of one of these, about 200 gunboats. Took me some 5.500 missiles (every single missile I brought and yes, the hit rate was horrible) and still had to take care of the last 20 in close combat. Lost my entire FAC fleet in order to buy time so my escort cruisers could finish of some 50 with AMMs.
The combat took some 5 hours realtime and I am still in the process of cleanup (i.e. killing off the 120 cripples)[/spoiler:28gxg18i]

[waresky (OP)]

Yeah..this "Gunboat-FAC-Carrier" are very slow..1000 km/s..but advance same as Elephant:)..or Dyno:))
NO on can stop'em..hehehe my 4 Missile Squadrron have time to reload ordnance at 2 jump away and RETURn just in time for discharges..AND re-loading again:))))

Ahahaha..dastardly ALiens:))) thoughest and "hard head"..

[darkrider2]

Could you board it with a combat drop module?

If it moves that slow you should be able to get a better hit chance for the boarding pods.

dear god just imagine actually taking that behemoth. . .  you'd be unstoppable. . .  after all the repairs and such

[Brian Neumann]

Could you board it with a combat drop module?

If it moves that slow you should be able to get a better hit chance for the boarding pods.

dear god just imagine actually taking that behemoth. . .  you'd be unstoppable. . .  after all the repairs and such

Unfortunately they are not capturable as they are an "organic" ship.  Ie a space monster.

Brian

[Libelnon]

Unfortunately they are not capturable as they are an "organic" ship.   Ie a space monster.

Brian

So. .  it's star swarm?

[Brian Neumann]

So. .  it's star swarm?

yes
Brian

[sloanjh]

Added spoiler tags to Libelnon's post (and the quote of it).

John

[Libelnon]

Added spoiler tags to Libelnon's post (and the quote of it).

John

Ah, cheers.  Sorry about that.

[darkrider2]

okay, just board the living ship bringing Forks, Knives, and a portable stove.

[Starkiller]

Well, I got to see something I thought I'd never see. This will be spoilered
because some of what I saw, may be a surprise to some players, as it was
to me.
First, the Star Swarm seems to be able to move from system to
system. I know the Precursers don't, yet they were fighting. I would be
cheering wildly because the two biggest PITAs in space were kicking the
crap out of each other, but that isn't what happened. If ever I wanted to
know just how dangerous Star Swarm are, this combat showed it. They
went through the Precursers like crap through a goose. I decided to make
myself scarce before they did the same to me! Now I wonder if my jump
point defences are strong enough.

Eric

[DatAlien]

The robots can move to other systems. At least if they can watch another ship using the jumppoint.

[Beersatron]

I watched the Swarm and Precursors go up against each other in one of my games.

The Precursors formed in the system on generation, and it was a very well developed Precursor Naval Depot. 3 squadrons totaling about 9 ships patrolled the system, there were 4 orbital defense bases over a ruined colony and multiple sensor stations with missile stores.

The Swarm migrated into the system and the fun commenced!

I think the Swarm did win it in the end, but only by the slimmest margin.

[Icebird]

I managed to one-shoot one of those mothership with my FAC squadron. 20 FAC Hermes, each with 8 box-launchers firing MIRV separating in 4 heads dealing 4 damage each.
Meanwhile, in my home system, 30 cruise missile from planetary fortress, firing from 1.5 billion km away, dealing 50 damage each, didn't manage to one-shoot it. But the second salvo did.

Of course, the real problem is the shield. If you don't have a strike strong enough to pass the shield, you will never destroy it.

[Starkiller]

Very true. And never NEVER fight them close-up and personal, because
The Swarmlings have Meson cannons, and the Queen has 32 of
them. Since they bypass shields and armour, you're dead if they get too
close.

Eric