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Biggest/Best Fleet

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  • 23-07-2002 10:33am
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    oeNeo
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    The biggest fleet I ever had in a Skirmish against the CPU was when I had the difficulty set to easy and had resources of 9999 every minute. I built a total of 72 Ion Cannon Frigates afair.

    I'll do it again and take a screenie of it to show off. ;)

    Another one is when I had 6 or 7 Heavy Cruisers, mucho-fun. I decided not to kill th enemy CPU, but I just crippled it by destoying every Harvester and every ship that it built. :)


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    Celt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭Celt


    3 Heavy Cruisers, 4 Destroyers, 2 Missile Destroyers.
    Every game I get this many , hyperspace to enemy #1, kill, claim bounty, hyperspace to #2, win game.


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    oeNeo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,299 ✭✭✭oeNeo


    My 72 Ion Frigs own your puny Cruisers and Destroyers!


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    Celt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭Celt


    yes, but I'm quote sure they also cost much MUCH more to hyperspace.
    So while your halfway to my mothership, I hyperspace to yours, pwn you and win :)

    Or I could build 70 attack bomber, 8 mine layers and they would also pwn your puny frigs :)


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    Celt
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    btw, anyone up for a game tonight?


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    oeNeo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,299 ✭✭✭oeNeo


    I had resources at 9999 every min remember, so RU's weren't a problem. As for bomber, I had 80 of the at one time, didn't bother building Capital Ships, just pwned them with my bombers. :)


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    Celt
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    2 Missile Dests would probably maul the bombers, but ion frigs suck at killing fighters, they have incredibly weak rear and side armour.


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    oeNeo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,299 ✭✭✭oeNeo


    Yeh but 72.. come on, even if I was swarmed by fighters, there would still be enough Ion Frigs to pwn the mothership!

    As for the bombers getting mown down by the missle destroyers... yeah you're right, but 80 bombers would still win, they'd lose about 1/4 of their fleet though imo.


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    Celt
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    2 missile destroyers would kill a 1/4 of the attack bombers in the first 5 to 10 seconds.


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    oeNeo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,299 ✭✭✭oeNeo


    20 bombers in 5-10 seconds? I doubt it, really. Agressive tactics in Sphere formation, then yea probably, but Neutral/Agressive Claw or X and they would last longer than 5-10 seconds.


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    Celt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭Celt


    2 in 3 missiles hit on average, 32 missiles firing in a salvo taking ~5 seconds, regenerating a missile every .475 seconds.

    Multiply that by two :)


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    #12
    oeNeo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,299 ✭✭✭oeNeo


    Go away with your numbers, we'll see, I'll make a demo and show you. ;)


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    Monty - the one and only
    Registered Users Posts: 3,274 ✭✭✭Monty - the one and only


    What he says is quite true, large groups of fighters/bombers can be cut to pieces in the opening seconds of a battle with missle destroyers, if used correctly.


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    Belisarius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 784 ✭✭✭Belisarius


    absolutely right , a single missle destroyer can easily hope to drop 20 fighters *thats conservative* in the first ten seconds *provided the missle banks are full* , if its facing head on , once the fighters break formation or start taking runs from behind its different matter , but even then a missle destroyer deadly enough to come out on top


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