I'm fighting Star Swarm. I have a big fat swarm of 48 freaking 800 tons little piranhas in front of me.
Assigning fire control for each of my weapons to each of those critters is giving me a vision of what hell must be.
So I put all my ships on auto-fire and. . . The result is not really what I expected.
My task group is composed of three different classes. Jump Cruiser Resolution, Missile Cruiser Furious, Anti-Missile Cruiser Hunt.
The only class that actually auto-fire is the Furious. Its also the worst, their missile are very big expensive long-range ones, so firing those on swarms is a big waste.
Resolution should be the ones that does most of the job, they have medium range missiles, and some lasers for close range. They do nothing. . .
Hunt should also help, with short range anti-missiles which could be used offensively rather well on small fast enemies like those swarm. They are not in range yet, but last time they had enemies in range, they did nothing.
Is there a solution to make auto-fire work as intended? Or am I doomed to manually target everything?
I am posting the characteristics of my ships, maybe its a design error I overlooked:
Resolution MK3 class Jump Cruiser 14 150 tons 1366 Crew 3101 BP TCS 283 TH 1562 EM 0
5519 km/s JR 4-50 Armour 6-52 Shields 0-0 Sensors 48/28/0/0 Damage Control Rating 26 PPV 75
Annual Failure Rate: 100% IFR: 1. 4% Maint Capacity 2192 MSP Max Repair 230 MSP Est Time: 3. 88 Years
Magazine 950
J14400(4-50) Military Jump Drive Max Ship Size 14400 tons Distance 50k km Squadron Size 4
MCF Boosted Drive E4.5 (10) Power 156.25 Fuel Use 45% Signature 156.25 Armour 0 Exp 20%
Fuel Capacity 350 000 Litres Range 98.9 billion km (207 days at full power)
Twin 15cm C3 Far Ultraviolet Laser Turret (5x2) Range 256 000km TS: 12000 km/s Power 12-6 RM 5 ROF 10 6 6 6 6 6 5 4 3 3 3
Fire Control S12 128-12000 (1) Max Range: 256 000 km TS: 12000 km/s 96 92 88 84 80 77 73 69 65 61
Magnetic Confinement Fusion Reactor Technology PB-1.2 AR-1 (1) Total Power Output 12 Armour 1 Exp 16%
MRM Launcher (10) Missile Size 5 Rate of Fire 125
MR Jaguar Fire Control FC60-R4 (1) Range 60.5m km Resolution 4
MRM Jaguar MK2 (190) Speed: 25 000 km/s End: 40m Range: 60m km WH: 16 Size: 5 TH: 216 / 130 / 65
MR Active Search Sensor MR63-R10 (1) GPS 1440 Range 63.8m km Resolution 10
Thermal Sensor TH2-48 (1) Sensitivity 48 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 48m km
EM Detection Sensor EM2-28 (1) Sensitivity 28 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 28m km
ECCM-1 (1) ECM 30
Furious class Missile Cruiser 14 000 tons 1202 Crew 3148 BP TCS 280 TH 1406 EM 0
5021 km/s Armour 4-51 Shields 0-0 Sensors 48/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 20 PPV 100
Annual Failure Rate: 78% IFR: 1.1% Maint Capacity 2811 MSP Max Repair 432 MSP Est Time: 3.57 Years
Magazine 1400
MCF Boosted Drive E4.5 (9) Power 156.25 Fuel Use 45% Signature 156.25 Armour 0 Exp 20%
Fuel Capacity 350 000 Litres Range 100.0 billion km (230 days at full power)
LRM Launcher (10) Missile Size 20 Rate of Fire 500
LRM Bear FC270-R20 (1) Range 270.5m km Resolution 20
LRM Bear MK1 (70) Speed: 40 600 km/s End: 110.8m Range: 269.8m km WH: 25 Size: 20 TH: 135 / 81 / 40
LR Active Search Sensor MR270-R20 (1) GPS 8640 Range 270.5m km Resolution 20
Thermal Sensor TH2-48 (1) Sensitivity 48 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 48m km
ECCM-1 (1) ECM 30
Hunt class Anti-Missile Cruiser 12 400 tons 1386 Crew 2656.5 BP TCS 248 TH 1562 EM 0
6298 km/s Armour 5-47 Shields 0-0 Sensors 48/28/0/0 Damage Control Rating 17 PPV 50
Annual Failure Rate: 72% IFR: 1% Maint Capacity 2276 MSP Max Repair 112 MSP Est Time: 7.01 Years
Magazine 950
MCF Boosted Drive E4.5 (10) Power 156.25 Fuel Use 45% Signature 156.25 Armour 0 Exp 20%
Fuel Capacity 350 000 Litres Range 112.9 billion km (207 days at full power)
AMM Launcher (50) Missile Size 1 Rate of Fire 5
AM Hornet Fire Control FC11-R1 (10) Range 11.8m km Resolution 1
AMM Hornet MK1 (950) Speed: 37 500 km/s End: 2.7m Range: 6m km WH: 4 Size: 1 TH: 487 / 292 / 146
SR Active Search Sensor MR15-R1 (1) GPS 112 Range 15.7m km Resolution 1
Thermal Sensor TH2-48 (1) Sensitivity 48 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 48m km
EM Detection Sensor EM2-28 (1) Sensitivity 28 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 28m km
ECCM-1 (10) ECM 30