My intended battle group of two Troy class, a missile cruiser and a smaller surveillance ship (Agamemnon B and Albatross classes shared below) encountered hostiles in the system next door and managed to take out two separate fleets of 24 and 20 750-ton fast-attackers (~10,500 km/s). The Agamemnon seems to have done the lion's share of the work with it's ASMs and AMMs, but the Troy didn't hold up particularly well once the few remaining bogies managed to close within something like 50,000 km and open up with what I believe were railguns. In this engagement, the gauss turrets proved useless, but I designed this battle group with a different threat in mind . . . I still don't know if it would succeed against a missile attack, since my point defense setup was not tested. Here are my missile cruiser and surveillance frigate:
Agamemnon B class Missile Cruiser 15 200 tons 375 Crew 2703.6 BP TCS 304 TH 1520 EM 540
5000 km/s Armour 6-54 Shields 18-300 Sensors 28/80/0/0 Damage Control Rating 30 PPV 23
Maint Life 4.78 Years MSP 2168 AFR 94% IFR 1.3% 1YR 156 5YR 2341 Max Repair 380 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 18 months Spare Berths 0
Magazine 675
760 EP Internal Fusion Drive (2) Power 760 Fuel Use 18.6% Signature 760 Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 750 000 Litres Range 47.8 billion km (110 days at full power)
Delta (2.5) R300/180 Shields (7) Total Fuel Cost 53 Litres per hour (1 260 per day)
CIWS-160/8 (4x8) Range 1000 km TS: 16000 km/s ROF 5 Base 50% To Hit
ML-S6-Mk2 Missile Launcher (ASM/45s) (3) Missile Size 6 Rate of Fire 45
ML-S1-50t Missile Launcher (AMM-1) (5) Missile Size 1 Rate of Fire 10
MFC-19m/2m-Res1t (AMM-1) (1) Range 19.1m km Resolution 1
MFC-201mk-R3000t (ASM-1) (1) Range 201.3m km Resolution 60
ASM-1 (42) Speed: 33 700 km/s End: 49.9m Range: 100.9m km WH: 12 Size: 6 TH: 191/114/57
AMM-1 R2.5mk (423) Speed: 61 200 km/s End: 0.7m Range: 2.5m km WH: 1 Size: 1 TH: 489/293/146
Active Search MR206mk-R4000t (1) GPS 16800 Range 206.6m km Resolution 80
Active Search (PD) MR2mk-R50 (1) GPS 32 Range 2.6m km MCR 279k km Resolution 1
Thermal Sensor TH2-28 (SR) (1) Sensitivity 28 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 28m km
EM Detection Sensor EM10-80 (1) Sensitivity 80 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 80m 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
Albatross class Recon Frigate 8 000 tons 217 Crew 1738 BP TCS 160 TH 800 EM 540
5000 km/s Armour 6-35 Shields 18-300 Sensors 700/80/0/0 Damage Control Rating 9 PPV 0
Maint Life 3.21 Years MSP 1222 AFR 56% IFR 0.8% 1YR 179 5YR 2686 Max Repair 700 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 18 months Spare Berths 0
400 EP Internal Fusion Drive (2) Power 400 Fuel Use 24% Signature 400 Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 500 000 Litres Range 46.9 billion km (108 days at full power)
Delta (2.5) R300/180 Shields (7) Total Fuel Cost 53 Litres per hour (1 260 per day)
Thermal Sensor TH50-700 (1) Sensitivity 700 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 700m km
EM Detection Sensor EM10-80 (1) Sensitivity 80 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 80m km
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
As this battle group finished its engagement a second Agamemnon B and a pair of an improved class of area defense cruisers came off the docks. After fleet training I sent a battle group of my two missile cruisers, two of the new Salamis class, and the Albatross back to Proxima to engage the scary 60,000t, 600 shield-strength monster (which before I couldn't scratch with a few missile volleys before the second fleet of 20 fast attackers drove me off) . . . I now very much see the value in 15cm lasers over the 12cm variety in the old class. The engagement would have taken forever without four, 15cm quad-turrets. Gauss turrets still useless (didn't want to close within the same range those fast attackers managed to hurt me, which worked great), but they still haven't been tested against the intended threat.
Salamis class Area Defence Cruiser 15 200 tons 461 Crew 3881 BP TCS 304 TH 1520 EM 540
5000 km/s Armour 6-54 Shields 18-300 Sensors 28/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 30 PPV 84.14
Maint Life 5.32 Years MSP 3192 AFR 92% IFR 1.3% 1YR 189 5YR 2831 Max Repair 384 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 18 months Spare Berths 0
760 EP Internal Fusion Drive (2) Power 760 Fuel Use 18.6% Signature 760 Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 750 000 Litres Range 47.8 billion km (110 days at full power)
Delta (2.5) R300/180 Shields (7) Total Fuel Cost 53 Litres per hour (1 260 per day)
Quad 15cm C6 Far Ultraviolet Laser Turret (2x4) Range 300 000km TS: 16000 km/s Power 24-24 RM 5 ROF 5 6 6 6 6 6 5 4 3 3 3
Twin Gauss Cannon R4-100 Turret (3x8) Range 40 000km TS: 16000 km/s Power 0-0 RM 4 ROF 5 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fire Control S08 160-16000 (UL12cmT) (2) Max Range: 320 000 km TS: 16000 km/s 97 94 91 88 84 81 78 75 72 69
Fire Control S02 R32-TS16000 (GCT) (3) Max Range: 64 000 km TS: 16000 km/s 84 69 53 37 22 6 0 0 0 0
Tokamak Fusion Reactor P8-50t (6) Total Power Output 48 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Active Search (PD) MR2mk-R50 (1) GPS 32 Range 2.6m km MCR 279k km Resolution 1
Thermal Sensor TH2-28 (SR) (1) Sensitivity 28 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 28m km
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
I welcome thoughts and advice on the designs and the doctrine. I recently finished research on the next engine tech and I'm working on a new generation of defenses; after upgrading weapons tech, I'll probably be looking to field an improved battle group with the same doctrine. I have a shipyard prepped to pump out a single 20,000t addition to my force, but I'm both leaning towards and shying away from (I designed and researched systems that I couldn't use and had to redesign) the notion of it being a carrier so I can specialize for mission. I could have used a high-powered microwave (for which I've done no research) on the big target at Proxima, where a faster enemy might have diced my fragile fleet, but it would have been a waste of space if I had only encountered the unshielded 750t ships.