What Are Your Fleet Designs?

[Baron Grazic]

My Fleet strategy is usuallty set to either 'Break Formation', 'Capture Ship' or 'Capture Planet' depending on what task they are performing.

The ships usually consist of 50% Direct fire ships, 25% Missile Ships, 10% Point-Defense ships and the Last 15% support ships, including Sweepers, SY/Repair Ships, Transports, Boarders & Carriers.

[Chauron]

lol What Slynky said

Usually when I make a fleet its because I'm in trouble and need to defend a warp point or something... so I pull whatever ships I have nearby and make a fleet lol

One thing I do is have a DN set up as either Heavy combat or Missle Boat and then put a spaceyard on it. Solves the problem of having repair ships in your fleet....

[Gwaihir]

Er, a space yard is a tad costly and large if you only use the repair capability . . . mightn't you want to use repair bays? (Which are stackable, too)

[Baron Grazic]

I'd back a Dreadnaught that uses the extra 400 tonnes for weapons over your DN with a SY.
I perfer a single ship with both a SY & multiple Repairs bays.

[Dingocat85]

Originally posted by Gwaihir:
Er, a space yard is a tad costly and large if you only use the repair capability . . . mightn't you want to use repair bays? (Which are stackable, too)

If you only use the repair capability, yeah...but Space Yards can also Analyze captured ships, and they can retrofit other ships, including themself...which means you could actually update your fleet with new technology you just discovered, without having to retreat back to a Planetary Space Yard
Example:
Your fleet is packed with 'Wave-Motion Gun I' weaponry, and you capture a ship with Wave-Motion II technology. You could Analyze it, update your Wave-Motion I weapons, and repair the updated components - all from the Ship's Space Yard

[Dingocat85]

I always try to have 1 or 2 'Point-Defence Ships' in my fleet, which are just ships with a Shield or two, and as many point-defence cannons as I can muster. Invaluable when fighting Empires that use Missiles &/or Fighters up the wazoo

[Xaren Hypr]

I typically include one SY ship in my fleets and a couple of dedicated Repair Yard ships, usually with 2 or 3 repair comps. That way I can repair battle (or nasty WP) damage, produce some extra units during a break, or even another ship or two if the layover is going to be extensive....a run in with an AI using an obscene number of Ionic Dispersers tought me that one ...