Posted by: TallTroll
« on: April 03, 2012, 03:16:03 AM »OK, well I'll forget the passive sensor and lasers then. Makes it easier to build anyway. I haven't designed a single missile / launcher / etc yet, so I can cut them from whole cloth when I'm ready
>> you would not need any active sensors of the FACs to be active when guarding said JP.
The FAC sensors are a joke. They're only there so they can go on a death ride to cover the withdrawal of the tender in the face of serious opposition. The tender will need to paint the targets for them. Essentially, I'm going to use Hydran tactics. The FACs ride 30k out from the tender (range of the mesons) for max PD coverage, and the tender launches missiles to cover their approach. With careful timing, the first missiles should reach PD range a little before the FACs, so the enemy PD unloads on missiles, then gets cooked by massed meson fire.
I even managed to sneak the FAC in at 900 tons, so all those res 20 sensors will have a slightly harder time seeing them, and the meson cycles at 5 secs, so they have some real bite. Be interesting to see if any of this actually works
>> Where Lasers can be of use on PDC's is after you have teched up to having a decent range, shipping the parts to a close in airless moon along with some engineers to assemble them.
"That's no moon. . "
>> you would not need any active sensors of the FACs to be active when guarding said JP.
The FAC sensors are a joke. They're only there so they can go on a death ride to cover the withdrawal of the tender in the face of serious opposition. The tender will need to paint the targets for them. Essentially, I'm going to use Hydran tactics. The FACs ride 30k out from the tender (range of the mesons) for max PD coverage, and the tender launches missiles to cover their approach. With careful timing, the first missiles should reach PD range a little before the FACs, so the enemy PD unloads on missiles, then gets cooked by massed meson fire.
I even managed to sneak the FAC in at 900 tons, so all those res 20 sensors will have a slightly harder time seeing them, and the meson cycles at 5 secs, so they have some real bite. Be interesting to see if any of this actually works
>> Where Lasers can be of use on PDC's is after you have teched up to having a decent range, shipping the parts to a close in airless moon along with some engineers to assemble them.
"That's no moon. . "