Posted by: Erik L
« on: June 04, 2018, 10:13:25 AM »I've used MIRV'd AMMs before. if you have the range to hit the separation range, then you can deliver larger AMM salvos with fewer launchers. Of course, your AMMs will need sensors.
The missiles are a final defense for larger ships beside their CWIS.So basically a defensive option in the event that your standard defenses fail? I'm by no means an Aurora veteran but by the sound of things, it's not like it would be useless, but it wouldn't be anywhere approaching optimal. I'm not great at number crunching Aurora stuff off the top of my head, but any defensive MIRVs you bring with you cost you space in the form of how much of the magazine they take up. If you're looking for a something to use long term, but don't want to lower the number of large missile launchers on your BC and CA, I'm not sure if just using smaller magazines and adding more CWIS wouldn't be better (again though, I've got no idea on the math behind that).
I don't think there is any defensive rationale for them, but they might have an offensive application or two, if they match the range of his regular missiles and they get their second stage separation timing right they might work to overwhelm defensive fire if seeded into a normal salvo possibly. Might be more trouble than it's worth in practice but for RP purposes it could be decent.
I'm trying to think of a use case where this MIRV would win out, and coming up short.I suppose if you're already using missile ships with size 12 launchers, having a few of these might allow for a last ditch defence, in case your escorts run out of missiles, but unless you don't have colliers, it seems like it would just make more sense to bring more AMMs, and if you're really that worried about running out of AMMs, it seems like using beam escorts would be the better option over the MIRV.