Posted by: nuclearslurpee
« on: January 03, 2021, 10:36:31 PM »Right now there’s just no reason not to stack 10cm rail or gauss when it becomes more efficient. I honestly never even bother using AMM’s for missile defense because there’s not really a reason to. Just stack more energy coverage. If I have missiles blowing up 80k meters off my bow and pelting me with the equivalent of a small caliber railgun swarm, I’m damn sure going to start fielding AMM’s and forward deploying small laser craft again.
AMMs are actually useful to thin out a very large wave of missiles since with decent tech levels you can launch several waves of AMMs. This is an important counter to massed box launchers which would otherwise be able to overwhelm beam final fire PD.
By "is" I mean "would be, if the AI actually built box launcher swarms". Thus as it stands AMMs are really only necessary in games with multiple player races.