Posted by: Sematary
« on: January 07, 2014, 12:55:13 PM »I tried to play a game with just beam weapons and the first time I came up to an NPR that was faster than me I lost my entire fleet in less than 5 minutes against 2 enemy ships.
So far pretty much every battle I've been in has been decided by the quantity of missiles I can fire (both the # of missiles per volley, and the # of volleys). I've worked hard at refining my offensive energy weapon technology and designs, but darned if I've ever used them for anything except finishing off stragglers. (Mesons and gauss cannons for point defense do get a lot of use on my ships, though.)