Posted by: kilo
« on: September 18, 2021, 03:27:07 AM »Range is not the most important characteristic of my ships, therefore I need to resupply reaction mass to my warships regularly. This is either done by one of my three tanker fleets or preferably by planet based fuel depots. My current naval doctrine is heavily relying on surface infrastructure in the form of either simple and undefended listening posts or defended bases with fuel jetties, cargo handling, tracking stations, ground forces and STOs on worlds with advantageous terrain.
Setting up these bases requires some time and escorting at first, because of all the heavy infrastructure required to build these, but they are quite hard to remove by the enemy at the same time. In the long term they are freeing up a lot of naval units though, as supply fleets and oilers are not required for every long endurance mission. There is one big negative though, the installations get destroyed during orbital bombardment and ground combat occasionally.
Setting up these bases requires some time and escorting at first, because of all the heavy infrastructure required to build these, but they are quite hard to remove by the enemy at the same time. In the long term they are freeing up a lot of naval units though, as supply fleets and oilers are not required for every long endurance mission. There is one big negative though, the installations get destroyed during orbital bombardment and ground combat occasionally.