One of the main drawbacks of Fighters is the number of Officers that they require, if you want them all commanded. Three Carriers loaded with Fighters require 156 Officers (instead of three!).
I would rather have that range _increased_ to lower the risk of the bus getting shot down before separation. A size 20 missile will be seen quite some way out and even if the enemy doesn´t have long ranged AMMs he would quickly adapt to this (assuming a human enemy, of course)And of course, if the separation range don't work, you could always use a longer ranged submunition. Cuts into the speed but the submunition is always going to be better than a 60mkm ASM. I suppose I need a better drone engine if I want this to work though since drone engine power is 3 or 4 tech levels behind missile engine.
This all depends on the state of the game, obviously. Early game, a separation range of 5 mkm will probably be suffice, mid game 9mkm looks ok, late game, I would go up to as much as 20 mkm
Interesting - the Precursors in my game all have 23.5mk AMMsI have a feeling they are spawned based on the tech the empire that explored the system they are in. Theres definatly multiple variations of the same roll within the precurser fleet.
I like this fact as I can use the fighter commands to season my officers a bit. Whilst they are commanding there is the random chancethat they can advance in useful stats like crew training rating. That makes them more useful for commanding the bigger ships later on.
Do you mean to shorten the separation range?
I would rather have that range _increased_ to lower the risk of the bus getting shot down before separation. A size 20 missile will be seen quite some way out and even if the enemy doesn´t have long ranged AMMs he would quickly adapt to this (assuming a human enemy, of course)
This all depends on the state of the game, obviously. Early game, a separation range of 5 mkm will probably be suffice, mid game 9mkm looks ok, late game, I would go up to as much as 20 mkm
Note: I have encoutered Precursors with AMM-ranges of 15+ mkm
I like the MIRVs except that at 9mk separation range even at 100,000k you are going to need a lot to get through estimated 16-18 AMM salvos - admitted ly my AMMs only have a speed of 50,000k but it's going to take a lot! They are nice but I think the fighters are a better bet - especially as my next generation of MFCs will be able to see the Size 20 jobbies at about 12mk.
Great thing about this game - lots of possibilities
One of the main drawbacks of Fighters is the number of Officers that they require, if you want them all commanded. Three Carriers loaded with Fighters require 156 Officers (instead of three!).I like this fact as I can use the fighter commands to season my officers a bit. Whilst they are commanding there is the random chancethat they can advance in useful stats like crew training rating. That makes them more useful for commanding the bigger ships later on.
How about this doctrine: ...
Missile Size: 20 MSP (1 HS) Warhead: 0 Armour: 0 Manoeuvre Rating: 5
Speed: 12000 km/s Endurance: 1500 minutes Range: 1080.0m km9 MSP in MIRVMissile Size: 3 MSP (0.15 HS) Warhead: 3 Armour: 0 Manoeuvre Rating: 10
Speed: 100600 km/s Endurance: 2 minutes Range: 10.3m kmLet's see you catch that one!