First REAL Combatants

[tryrar (OP)]

Hmm, I have plenty of space still on the hoplite for more mags so that's not too hard to fix, and yes I do have a dedicated collier/tanker attached to each squadron that goes into engagements with them(armored and shielded to a fare-the-well of course). Also, How did I miss the shield upgrade? No big though, a simple fix

[Charlie Beeler]

Some observations on missile defense.  AMM's should not outrange your MFC's ability to engage incoming salvos.  Design your detection sensors and fire controls first and then match the AMM's to make best use of the ranges available.  Remember that AMM's have to able to launcher against incoming missiles at 10seconds range of the target missile.

Make sure to know what your AMM's hit chances are vs the missile speeds you except to encounter.  Remember that you can assign upto 5v1.  With that in mind balance your defensive MFC's to launchers for best effect against the salvo sizes you expect the defend against.  

Example:  if you can only get 20% vs target missiles set your PD at 5v1. If you have 20 launchers you can use 1 MFC to engage salvo sizes of 4 missiles with full coverage.  If you have fewer launchers then you need to be able to engage at greater ranges to acheive the same coverage.  

Beam defense turrets should never to consider your primary missile defense.  In a fleet with AMM's thier job is to engage missiles that leaker past the AMM's.  Design turrets at maximum size per BFC,  multiple turrets assigned to single BFC that could be in a single turret (ie 3 singles vs a single triple) are wasting hull spaces that could be used elsewhere, It's not much but could come in handy.

[Arwyn]

Edit: There seems to be a pattern appearing, Arwyn

Great minds think alike? 

[tryrar (OP)]

Just got done finishing fire-testing them, and I'm not sure how good they are since it seems my missiles are substantially outranging my opponent's average AS! The only really large active sensor I've encountered was on a PDC I took out, and the ONLY damage  I took was when I sent my destroyer flotilla in to investigate the planet the PDC was on...and forgot to activate the DL's sensors. Needless to say, I ran into a small minefield and caught a few missiles. Thankfully, I at least know my DLs can take some punishment as he only came of with rather light damage considering there had to be at least 25 munitions(only shaved off a few layers of armor, damaged an engine and PD mount).