Does size really matter ?

[Gandalph]

I recently had a battle in a PBW game where I had 17 LC's and my enemy had 38 BC's and BB's. My LC's defensive bonuses seriously outwieghed his BC's and BB's offensive bonuses. The 2 weapons I could fit on my LC's hit every shot, his ships weapons hit 1 in 15 shots. His fleet was turned to space dust and I had moderate damage to 4 ships. The moral here is, size is not as important as the ability to hit and not be hit.

[Fyron]

I normally research ECM and Sensors 2 before getting things like Cruisers or PPBs.

[couslee]

"The classic is to research very big, powerful guns only to realise you can't hit the enemy, having not yet got round to researching combat sensors."

Yup. that was me in my current game. his (a neutral at that) one ship bLasted my entire fleet. and to add insult to injury, he sustained zero damage, as the few shots that did get through were not enough to pass the shields he had. I was

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by couslee:
"The classic is to research very big, powerful guns only to realise you can't hit the enemy, having not yet got round to researching combat sensors."

Oh that happens to me sooooo often. Especially vs TDM Modpack AI's they take defensiveness charateristics. Real tough to crack.

[couslee]

arg. credit where credit is due. only the faces were in my post, the original quote was Wander's