Okay, I've just spent three game years setting up my fleet and jump gates to try and attack a system with several brilliant colony sites ( and the wreckage of 6 of my survey ships. I want vengeance.) This will be my first game using missiles, as I realised I can't beat the NPR's with beam weapons only, at least not until I can get much better engines.
So I enter the system, engage all the active sensors on all my ships, and move in towards the inner system.
I get a contact, 5 missile-armed ships I met from the prior encounter. Unfortunatley they are at 60mkm from me, but my EM sensors still detect them.
Now here's where I must be missing something big. I open up the individual ship details page, go to my destroyer ( all statistics posted at the bottom), and go to the Combat Settings tab. In there, I manually assigned three of the 5 launchers to have the Wookie missiles, and two of them for the Thunderbolt interceptors. I assign two of my cruisers three launchers to interceptors, and the third to anti-ship missiles.
However, I can't get the Point Defence mode button to stick on any SFC. I assumed it was because I had no sensor contacts with missiles ( I could see their ships on the system map, but I couldn't see them in the SFC). 16 minutes later, I get missile sensor contacts. I go into the fire control, and try to manually fire the missile launchers at the contacts I now have. 5 seconds later, as far as I can tell, no missiles were fired and all of their ones hit me. I lost one ship instantly.
tl;dr, I want a rundown of how the heck i'm supposed to play a battle ( everything to do with it, after having missiles loaded into the ship. That's about as far as I think I understand)
It's also possible my designs just fail, constructive criticism greatly appreciated:
Asceticism of Action class Destroyer 6800 tons 617 Crew 836.56 BP TCS 136 TH 400 EM 0
2941 km/s Armour 1-31 Shields 0-0 Sensors 8/8/0/0 Damage Control Rating 6 PPV 15
Annual Failure Rate: 61% IFR: 0.9% Maint Capacity 1461 MSP Max Repair 96 MSP Est Time: 6.53 Years
Magazine 570
Nuclear Pulse Engine E8 (10) Power 40 Fuel Use 80% Signature 40 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 50,000 Litres Range 16.5 billion km (65 days at full power)
Size 3 Missile Launcher (5) Missile Size 3 Rate of Fire 25
Missile Fire Control FC0-R1 (1) Range 864k km Resolution 1
Missile Fire Control FC28-R100 (1) Range 28.8m km Resolution 100
Size 3 Wookie Missile (100) Speed: 10,000 km/s End: 21.4m Range: 12.9m km WH: 6 Size: 3 TH: 60 / 36 / 18
Size 3 Thunderbolt Interceptor Missile (90) Speed: 26,700 km/s End: 0.5m Range: 0.9m km WH: 1 Size: 3 TH: 195 / 117 / 58
Active Ship Search Sensor MR9-R100 (1) GPS 1200 Range 9.6m km Resolution 100
Active Missile Detection Sensor MR0-R1 (1) GPS 96 Range 768k km Resolution 1
Thermal Sensor TH1-8 (1) Sensitivity 8 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 8m km
EM Detection Sensor EM1-8 (1) Sensitivity 8 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 8m km
Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s
This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
Fingers of Dawn class Cruiser 4300 tons 314 Crew 609.44 BP TCS 86 TH 120 EM 0
1395 km/s Armour 4-23 Shields 0-0 Sensors 8/8/0/0 Damage Control Rating 1 PPV 9
Annual Failure Rate: 147% IFR: 2.1% Maint Capacity 1089 MSP Max Repair 96 MSP Est Time: 3.42 Years
Magazine 379
Nuclear Pulse Engine E8 (3) Power 40 Fuel Use 80% Signature 40 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 50,000 Litres Range 26.2 billion km (217 days at full power)
Size 3 Missile Launcher (3) Missile Size 3 Rate of Fire 25
Missile Fire Control FC28-R100 (1) Range 28.8m km Resolution 100
Missile Fire Control FC0-R1 (1) Range 864k km Resolution 1
Size 3 Wookie Missile (60) Speed: 10,000 km/s End: 21.4m Range: 12.9m km WH: 6 Size: 3 TH: 60 / 36 / 18
Size 3 Thunderbolt Interceptor Missile (66) Speed: 26,700 km/s End: 0.5m Range: 0.9m km WH: 1 Size: 3 TH: 195 / 117 / 58
Active Search Sensor MR25-R100 (1) GPS 3200 Range 25.6m km Resolution 100
Active Missile Detection Sensor MR0-R1 (1) GPS 96 Range 768k km Resolution 1
Thermal Sensor TH1-8 (1) Sensitivity 8 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 8m km
EM Detection Sensor EM1-8 (1) Sensitivity 8 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 8m km
Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s
This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes