Posted by: xenoscepter
« on: June 11, 2020, 05:29:54 AM »Space Stations, they are all engineless. If you have some decent Laser and Railgun STOs, you can defend them from enemy ships quite readily, but boarders... anything designed to board an actual enemy vessel will be fast and may very well get close enough to deploy and get out.
Versing a speed of 1 km/s... even regular old infantry would probably take 0% casualties... never mind your Fuel Harvesting Bases, Terraforming Stations, Orbital Mining Platforms and other such things which are not nearly as likely to be well defended falling prey to a slow, quiet, maybe even cloaked boarding transport...
Boarding combat is very useful, very useful indeed... Oh, and it's also really cool!
Versing a speed of 1 km/s... even regular old infantry would probably take 0% casualties... never mind your Fuel Harvesting Bases, Terraforming Stations, Orbital Mining Platforms and other such things which are not nearly as likely to be well defended falling prey to a slow, quiet, maybe even cloaked boarding transport...
Boarding combat is very useful, very useful indeed... Oh, and it's also really cool!