I once have met a race that destroyed my entire pacifist empire in a few turns with mesons. Now I decided to prepare before I meet them again. So here are my assumpions/knowledge/situation:
1. They prefer to fight at point-blank range, sometimes ramming my ships.
2. They have a lot of meson guns.
3. I have a good kinetic expert, but I do not have any energy weapons guys at all.
4. My railgun tech is pretty short-range.
So I decided to build my fleet with strong emphasis on missiles:
Agincourt - 2 class Missile Destroyer 34,000 tons 379 Crew 1938.6 BP TCS 680 TH 1500 EM 0
2205 km/s Armour 3-93 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 25 PPV 15
Maint Life 3.96 Years MSP 891 AFR 369% IFR 5.1% 1YR 90 5YR 1356 Max Repair 252 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 28 months Spare Berths 1
Magazine 195
"Marko Polo" 150 EP Commercial Ion Drive (10) Power 150 Fuel Use 1.09% Signature 150 Exp 2%
Fuel Capacity 250,000 Litres Range 121.4 billion km (637 days at full power)
CIWS-120 (2x4) Range 1000 km TS: 12000 km/s ROF 5 Base 50% To Hit
25s Size 3 Missile Launcher (5) Missile Size 3 Rate of Fire 25
"Fly Master-3" Missile Fire Control FC39-R60 (50%) (5) Range 39.0m km Resolution 60
"Fly-3" Size 3 Anti-ship Missile (65) Speed: 12,000 km/s End: 44.5m Range: 32.1m km WH: 5 Size: 3 TH: 96/57/28
Active Search Sensor MR13-R1 (50%) (1) GPS 168 Range 13.4m km Resolution 1
Active Search Sensor MR103-R65 (70%) (1) GPS 10400 Range 103.2m km Resolution 65
ECM 10
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
DAC for this ship is mostly engines, so I hope it will remain afloat for uite some time, and will even be able to withstand quite some punishment from meson weapon.
I included ECM and CIWS just in case I will have to fight someone with missiles.
This ship is going to lead the vanguard of a formation, atracting enemy.
Illustrious class Missile Boat 4,500 tons 70 Crew 479.33 BP TCS 90 TH 150 EM 0
1666 km/s Armour 3-24 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 4 PPV 3
Maint Life 5.33 Years MSP 266 AFR 40% IFR 0.6% 1YR 16 5YR 235 Max Repair 200 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 30 months Spare Berths 0
Magazine 39
"Marko Polo" 150 EP Commercial Ion Drive (1) Power 150 Fuel Use 1.09% Signature 150 Exp 2%
Fuel Capacity 25,000 Litres Range 91.7 billion km (637 days at full power)
25s Size 3 Missile Launcher (1) Missile Size 3 Rate of Fire 25
"Fly Master-3" Missile Fire Control FC39-R60 (50%) (1) Range 39.0m km Resolution 60
"Fly-3" Size 3 Anti-ship Missile (13) Speed: 12,000 km/s End: 44.5m Range: 32.1m km WH: 5 Size: 3 TH: 96/57/28
Active Search Sensor MR103-R65 (70%) (1) GPS 10400 Range 103.2m km Resolution 65
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
This is a main fleet boat, that will be deployed in large packs, following "Agincourt-2". It has reduced size to be easily thrown in through jump point, if needed.
What do you guys think? will it work? should I start serial build of these vessels?