Corporate Federation - Comments

[Kurt (OP)]

Glad to see you're able to start building meson PDCs to start taking some of the pressure off your ordinance factories - even though they're too slow like you said enough quantity can substitute for quality.  Then the freed-up production can go towards more Bludgeons, heh heh heh...

How's the mineral situation?  Are you experiencing any bottlenecks, considering how much you've had to turtle on Earth and just churn out missiles and ordinance factories?

The mineral situation is okay for now, but long-term the Republic is going to be behind the curve in moving its mining facilities off of Earth before the final depletion of the resources there.  As for the mesons, there really isn't any excuse for not building them right away, except that I didn't really think that Earth was going to pull through, and just didn't think of it.  In game terms, the chaos of the bombardment has caused much confusion in the upper command staff of the Republic, leading to a nearly constantly changing strategy that is only now settling down and firming up. 

Kurt

[Garfunkel]

Sol is clear!

Oh wait, four more battleships...

Incoming!

[Garfunkel]

It seems that the tide has turned!

[Neophyte]

Yeah, the perfidious aliens' days are numbered!  Probably a LOT of numbers, to be fair, but still!

[TMaekler]

Have never played with an NPR yet - except once. They plastered everything with jump gates and explored systems like crazy. Is there an overview of experiences with NPRs? Do they research quickly? I mostly refrained from using NPRs because I like a more "slow" research and "slow" buildup over centuries rather then rushing everything with 100+ research centers.

[TMaekler]

Bludgeon III LRASM
Speed: 31,200 km/s
Range: 395.6 mkm’s
Warhead: 20
Armor: 1
ECM: 2

Any particular reason for such an unusual warhead size?

[Kurt (OP)]

Bludgeon III LRASM
Speed: 31,200 km/s
Range: 395.6 mkm’s
Warhead: 20
Armor: 1
ECM: 2

Any particular reason for such an unusual warhead size?

Unusual how?  Having said that, the reason is that it was the largest warhead I could fit on the missile and still have the range, ECM, armor, and sensors that I felt I could cram into the basic frame. 

[Rich.h]

Bludgeon III LRASM
Speed: 31,200 km/s
Range: 395.6 mkm’s
Warhead: 20
Armor: 1
ECM: 2

Any particular reason for such an unusual warhead size?

Unusual how?  Having said that, the reason is that it was the largest warhead I could fit on the missile and still have the range, ECM, armor, and sensors that I felt I could cram into the basic frame.

I would say the unusual damage comment is due to how missiles normally work. Due to their damage pattern missiles are most efficient when they have a square number for warhead amount. A strength 20 warhead will pierce the same amount of armour layers as a strength 16 warhead.

[TMaekler]

That is, what I meant. Thanks for the explanation.

[Kurt (OP)]

That is, what I meant. Thanks for the explanation.

I understand now.  I usually design missiles by determining the speed I'll need, then adding the other things I think the missile needs, then finally putting the remaining space into the warhead.  If the warhead isn't big enough, then I rebalance the design (usually by reducing my soaring expectations) and come up with a warhead that will work.  I knew there were break-points for warhead strength based on the way the armor worked, but I usually don't let that affect my designs too much. 

Kurt

[Neophyte]

Looks like the Federation got caught in a little bit of a time loop!

[Garfunkel]

Amusingly enough, there is a strong chance that my current game will develop to resemble this one. I only have minimal Fleet built and the enemy - right next door to Sol - seems to out-number, out-tech and out-mass me significantly. Following Kurt's example though, I've built loads and loads of PDCs to defend Earth, so we'll see.

[Kurt (OP)]

Looks like the Federation got caught in a little bit of a time loop!

Groundhog Day?  Maybe?

Ummmm...Oops?

Kurt

[Panopticon]

That last ship exploding maybe an example of shock damage in action? or a lucky pair of missile hitting the same armor columns and a magazine maybe?

[Kurt (OP)]

That last ship exploding maybe an example of shock damage in action? or a lucky pair of missile hitting the same armor columns and a magazine maybe?

That's certainly possible.  I can't remember if there were internal explosions listed for this battle.  This very thing has happened several times, confusing me, until I noticed the internal explosions.  Eventually I realized that all of the Dregluk ships I killed early on had already fired all of their missiles and thus had empty magazines, thus no internal explosions.  Several times Mammoth class BB's, which I know to have thick armor and to be very difficult to kill, have blown up after much fewer hits than it should take.  When I looked at the log I realized that in every case there was a massive internal explosion, or even several explosions.

Kurt