Carrier Battles Mod

[Suicide Junkie]

I know what you mean... It is fairly hard to justify the resources to build plasma weapons in bulk.

My ships tend to be really heavily armored, at the expense of everything else, and I build a lot of radioactives extractors, since I know I'll need them... that gives me more wiggle room for installing the high energy toys.

And of course, you can't have your entire fleet be made up of plasma battleships. I had only about 15-20 of them in a fleet of 300. But despite their small numbers, they really cleaned up, scoring at least half the kills in that battle.

[Suicide Junkie]

Here is the updated basic version (4.5mb)

[Suicide Junkie]

An update; default events were a little too extreme.
This is the full atrocities version (8mb)

[scJazz]

OK my comments regarding long range weapons and plasma weapons being nerf magnets sure as hell didn't even contemplate situations where 300 ships engage. However I'm going to revisit this subject after some more review.

[Jake Monroe]

Yeah, SJ and them get some insane battle going in pbw. All weapons in CB have their uses, and that's part of what makes it so awesome.

[dumbluck]

I'm getting an invalid culture error for the Imperials. they're warriors instead of berserkers.

[Suicide Junkie]

Easy enough to fix when I get back from the cottage.

[Black_Knyght]

I downloaded Carrier Battles v1.6a, started a game, and so far it's an exercise in frustration: fighters WON'T load onto my carriers, Kinetic Missiles won't target seekers, and my ships all run out of supplies BEFORE they even leave the system.

What is the point of THIS???

[dumbluck]

Make sure you're putting supply pods on your ships. you NEED them.

The Anti-missle missles only work in strategic combat, not tactical.

The Fighter bays have no cargo capacity in and of themselves. But you are forced to add cargo bays, too, so I don't know why the fighters wouldn't be loading...

[Suicide Junkie]

Dumbluck has most of the answers covered.

The SE4 UI does not support targetting seekers; use AUTO tactical, or strategic. Preferably simultaneous turns.

Might you be designing a carrier using a warship hull? That would allow you to put a fighter bay, but no cargo bays.