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View Poll Results: What is your favourite weapon early game?
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Depleted Uranium Cannons
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44.68% |
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Torpedos
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2.13% |
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Anti-Proton Beams
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12.77% |
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Missiles
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25.53% |
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Meson BLaster
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6.38% |
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Racial Weapon
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4.26% |
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October 8th, 2004, 06:44 AM
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Re: What is the weapon of your choice, and Why?
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I looked at torps earlier, and concluded that the only reason why you would want to use torps would be for the negligible cost decrease.
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We have discussed this before.
Torps are a great tool when coupled with the strategy Maximum Weapons range.
In one game a player used APB's and Torps as primary weapons in a small fleet of about 30 BC and wiped the board against a fleet of superior BS + DN with PPB's because his ships had the range to fire. They fired first and the rest is history.
(Coupled with 115% Agg/Def with 10% fleet and Ship training with the EMC - Scattering Armor - Combat sensors - and such.
Both fleets were evenly matched in all regards except one used PPB's Optimal range with more ships, the other APB's and Torps at Max range.
Simulation after simulation showed the PPB fleet obliterating the APB/Torp fleet but when actual combat occured, it was the APB/Torp fleet that won.
Tnarg, CNC, were in on the game as well. I honestly don't recall the other three players. Was a brillent game though. One of the Star Trek ones.
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October 8th, 2004, 09:53 AM
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Re: What is the weapon of your choice, and Why?
Does Torpedoes have some accuracy bonus which is not mentioned anywhere? THis has been debated time and again in this forum, but I don't remember if anyone has provided a clean ansver to that. That is about only reason I can think a torpedo fleet to win against PPB or APB fleet if other ways equally matched.
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October 8th, 2004, 10:03 AM
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Re: What is the weapon of your choice, and Why?
I wish I could find the thread where we discussed strategies. But following the Forum update all links are significantly frelled.
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October 8th, 2004, 01:43 PM
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Re: What is the weapon of your choice, and Why?
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Karibu said:
Does Torpedoes have some accuracy bonus which is not mentioned anywhere?
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Nope, they do not get a bonus.
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That is about only reason I can think a torpedo fleet to win against PPB or APB fleet if other ways equally matched.
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Everything else being equal, the PPB and APB fleets would win most of the battles. If one side manages, through ship placement, to get of a significant salvo against the other side first, then they'd win. |
October 8th, 2004, 01:54 PM
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Re: What is the weapon of your choice, and Why?
So torpedoes are good for defending warp points, then? Hmmm...
edit: also for use on weapons platforms, bases, and satellites, I guess, since they can get range bonuses...
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October 8th, 2004, 02:13 PM
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Re: What is the weapon of your choice, and Why?
Torpedoes only have accuracy bonuses in mods.
With the reload, you may be able to jump out of weapons range while reloading, thus negating the enemy's ROF advantage.
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