Posted by: Jorgen_CAB
« on: January 11, 2013, 08:40:07 AM »Sorry to be late to the party here but I would like to give one suggestion that I think would enhance this squadrons performance.
If the active sensor was dropped in favor of some stronger passive sensors or magazines you could use one or two 500 ton scout crafts with active sensors instead. The major benefit here is that you don't want your rather defensively weak squadron anywhere near an enemy. And since your strike crafts has such long strike range you can't really make good use of their strongest ability as it is.
All in all, scouting in force usually need either more or bigger ships. In the early game I rather just use scouting squadrons with defensive weaponry and equipped with some beam ASM if they are caught by a faster enemy. My earliest scouting in recon force usually is about 20k in size, but this generally need some investment in jump engine size efficiency to be economically sound. It is totally viable at Ion tech depending on your other priorities of course. That would be one command/light cruiser and two light carriers. They would in general be about 2/3 defense and 1/3 offense.
If the active sensor was dropped in favor of some stronger passive sensors or magazines you could use one or two 500 ton scout crafts with active sensors instead. The major benefit here is that you don't want your rather defensively weak squadron anywhere near an enemy. And since your strike crafts has such long strike range you can't really make good use of their strongest ability as it is.
All in all, scouting in force usually need either more or bigger ships. In the early game I rather just use scouting squadrons with defensive weaponry and equipped with some beam ASM if they are caught by a faster enemy. My earliest scouting in recon force usually is about 20k in size, but this generally need some investment in jump engine size efficiency to be economically sound. It is totally viable at Ion tech depending on your other priorities of course. That would be one command/light cruiser and two light carriers. They would in general be about 2/3 defense and 1/3 offense.