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Offline illrede (OP)

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Invader Fighting
« on: February 15, 2016, 11:53:33 AM »
Well.  I had my very first contact with the big, bad spoilers.  My Navy was dominant against the "lesser" spoils and NPRs, so I was fairly confident. . .

Now two strike groups are floating wreckage. . . 20 ships destroyed.

Time to get to R&D once more. . .

OK, you're spoiler Initiated. Welcome!

I try to be as coy as possible about Invaders, it was the thing that addicted me to this game. Then again, I had a very positive first experience. Out of pure ignorance, I made an average-tech system defense fleet that could actually give them a fight. The new wave of players is starting to have their first experiences, and there is a metastasizing meta consensus that the answer is to break the game with tech or specialize to ridiculous degrees in both scope and size.

But instead, look at this:

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Goiingsak class Battleship 15000 tons     408 Crew     2446.2 BP      TCS 300  TH 1200  EM 0
4000 km/s     Armour 5-54     Shields 0-0     Sensors 8/11/0/0     Damage Control 7     PPV 83
Annual Failure Rate: 36%    IFR: 0.5%    Maintenance Capacity 713 MSP
Magazine 232   Spare Berths -8   

600 EP Ion Drive (2)    Power 600    Fuel Use 30%    Armour 0    Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 920 000 Litres    Range 36.8 billion km   (106 days at full power)

20cm Railgun V4/C4 (5x4)    Range 160 000km     TS: 4000 km/s     Power 12-4     RM 4    ROF 15        4 4 4 4 3 2 2 2 1 1
10cm Railgun V4/C3 (8x4)    Range 40 000km     TS: 4000 km/s     Power 3-3     RM 4    ROF 5        1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fire Control S02 128-4000 (1)    Max Range: 256 000 km   TS: 4000 km/s     96 92 88 84 80 77 73 69 65 61
Fire Control S00.5 32-4000 (1)    Max Range: 64 000 km   TS: 4000 km/s     84 69 53 37 22 6 0 0 0 0
Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor Technology PB-1 (10)     Total Power Output 45     Armour 0    Exp 5%

Size 8 Missile Launcher (25% Reduction) (12)    Missile Size 8    Rate of Fire 8000
Missile Fire Control FC185-R180 (2)     Range 185.9m km    Resolution 180
.067 LSpS Doorknocker (29)  Speed: 20 000 km/s   End: 110.8m    Range: 133m km   WH: 16    Size: 8    TH: 73/44/22

Thermal Sensor TH1-8 (1)     Sensitivity 8     Detect Signature 1000: 8m km
Active Search Sensor MR154-R180 (1)     GPS 18900     Range 155.0m km     Resolution 180
Active Search Sensor MR11-R1 (1)     GPS 105     Range 11.6m km     Resolution 1
EM Detection Sensor EM1-11 (1)     Sensitivity 11     Detect Strength 1000: 11m km

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

That's a core design, a battleship in truth. There are other ships in the fleet to meet necessary roles, but that one forms battleship divisions. They compete at about 4-1, which is decent for 4 tech levels down.

Edit: It began at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_class_battleship, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg-class_battleship
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Re: Invader Fighting
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2016, 02:03:35 PM »
Oh I have no doubt that I'll be able to beat them.   I'm actually now quite a few tech levels ahead of what my own fleet was.   I was in dire ressource shortage after fighting a drawn-out war against an NPR so I never got around to creating and refitting new designs.   Instead I focused on getting ressources, fix the wealth situation and get my production in order. 

I didn't go looking for the fight.   Chance encounter while my fleets were on their way back for some slight repairs and overhaul.   I, realistically, had no way to go, so I took the chance.   These were also my first real warships, they did quite well.  .  but I found several oversights that I'll correct in the next generation. 

They were quite far away from home, so I'm in no giant hurry to rush out new designs.   For the time being, I'm beefing up my system defenses with some of my cheaper warship designs and some FACs, while I wait for some more key techs that are about to trickle in.