Lessons Learned from Battles

[SkulkrinBait]

Inspired again by Timbus/Perun, what have we learned from battles so far:

1. Don't use "go to" when sending relief forces, use "defend".

2. Spirit class fighters are useful, give them firing priority so they can freeze enemy ships who then can't fire back (not sure if this actually works or not)

what else?

One other think not exactly learned from this battle is that it will be useful in future to station forces at a nearby friendly planet rather than launch direct attacks against planets a long way off to get more surprise.

For example if we go for a planet in another quad it might take 9 hours for the fleet to arrive which is a good amount of warning./ But if we go via a nearby friendly planet it might only give 4 hours notice, if you catch my drift!

;D

[Perun]

2a. Spirits are extremely useful ;D when they fire first.

3. Try to have at least a few anti-PDS ships in your fleet when you're attacking.

We can also try to engage few fleets of different speeds, depending on a time we will have: send large Bullet-only fleet (it arrives in 2 hours), then 3-hour fleet, then 4, etc. That way pressure is constant, and fresh troops arrive all the time, additionally demoralizing an enemy.

[Harlequin]

At this stage in proceedings, even high rank players like Bye-bye mack had a lot of Bullets. Therefore a healthy supply of CO.3 Sirrius' will be useful. These ships can hit fighters, but bullets can't hit them.

[soiram]

Remember: If you send a fleet to station at a planet it WILL get involved in case of an attack on that planet. This can be used as a pre-emptive measure if attack on one planet is suspected.

[Harlequin]

What do we think is a good fleet mix? I obviously don't have the answers because I got a large slice of Ouch pie against Himack and chums. ;D

I noticed that lots of my ships were frozen and a good proportion of those ended up destroyed. So that would mean a good fleet ought to have some:

FI.5 - Spirit fighters
FR.3 - Spirit frigates
CR.2 - Spirit cruisers


What else?

[SkulkrinBait]

Bullets are the best fighter pound for pound so have a good few of those, as mentioned before CO Sirrius are handy as they can hit Bullets which can't hit them back. I think bigger is better in general as the big ships tend to have more survivability.

Spirit class ships are good as well, not sure what mix exactly.

[SkulkrinBait]

We need to make sure in future we launch attacks from as close to the targets as possible to reduce any early warning for the enemy so they can't concentrate their forces from several planets against us. Try to time it so everything arrives at the same time or as soon as possible after the first attack.

[Shendemiar]

When do we crush all others?

[SkulkrinBait]

shendemiar said:

When do we crush all others?

Erm, not just yet, we aren't strong enough!

Our next target will be the RSR planet in quad 1:2:4, after that who knows?!

;D

[SkulkrinBait]

After the revealation that damage isn't persistent even from one tick to the next, surely bigger is better when it comes to building ships? I knew from the rules that damage didn't persist, but I assumed it was from one battle to the next. If it's from one tick to the next, if you remember the example I gave of 300 Bullets vs 1 Jugger class flagship, the Flagship would win every time as the Bullets wouldn't be able to deal enough pain to kill it in one tick.

I think those were the odds, 300 Bullets cost about the same as 1 Jugger flagship IIRC.

[SkulkrinBait]

Does anyone know how combat works in relation to the types of ships attacked.

For example if you had a fleet of 10 fighters, who had their targets as Fi, Cr, De for example, against a fleet of 1 fighter and 2 Cruisers, would they all target the fighter on the first tick or just target the fighter until it was destroyed and then go for the cruisers in the same tick?

Do you understand what I'm getting at?

We might need to arrange some test battles again.

[SkulkrinBait]

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Strange! 1 Bullet beat 1 Sirrius corvette.

Bullet - damage per tick = 10
Sirrius - Armour = 150

Anyone explain that?

[Perun]

It was battleship, not fighter.

[SkulkrinBait]

Ah, that would explain it!

[SkulkrinBait]

The fact that Imp could launch that attack succesfully must mean I lost my "immunity" as soon as I ordered the attack and not from when they actually hit. I've less than 60% of his score.