Post by kashre on Jun 27, 2010 15:54:07 GMT -5
i was trying to respond to a comment about CA's in the Hiver vs Terran battle report but it seems to have gotten locked when it got moved to the AAR forum 
So I'll make a comment here in response to the concern that the ability to fire first makes a BC more effective than an even weight of CAs.
My 2 cents on CAs:
They do make good missile boats. You can give them Delta 3 in the RDF role a lot easier than you can larger ships because of the way delta scales, and the advantage of multiple fast missile ships is that you can split your fleet without sacrificing the ability to focus your fire because your arcs are 360 and your weapons skip shields. I would expect that in a battle between even points of direct-fire BCBs and missile heavy CARs that the CARs would have a better than even chance of winning. BCR vs CAR is a different story... that would probably come down to whoever wins the initiative imo.
of course, I haven't tried that yet, so I could be wrong.
Also, from looking at the fleets I have built so far... a mass 593 BC has 77 hull where two mass 250 CAs have 100 hull between them. Which is offset somewhat by the lower max armor of the CAs, but I'm not sure it's offset enough to make it more than even for the BC, even if it gets to fire first. You just have to make sure that your CAs have enough high pen weapons.
So I'll make a comment here in response to the concern that the ability to fire first makes a BC more effective than an even weight of CAs. My 2 cents on CAs:
They do make good missile boats. You can give them Delta 3 in the RDF role a lot easier than you can larger ships because of the way delta scales, and the advantage of multiple fast missile ships is that you can split your fleet without sacrificing the ability to focus your fire because your arcs are 360 and your weapons skip shields. I would expect that in a battle between even points of direct-fire BCBs and missile heavy CARs that the CARs would have a better than even chance of winning. BCR vs CAR is a different story... that would probably come down to whoever wins the initiative imo.
of course, I haven't tried that yet, so I could be wrong.
Also, from looking at the fleets I have built so far... a mass 593 BC has 77 hull where two mass 250 CAs have 100 hull between them. Which is offset somewhat by the lower max armor of the CAs, but I'm not sure it's offset enough to make it more than even for the BC, even if it gets to fire first. You just have to make sure that your CAs have enough high pen weapons.
Glad to hear it. I think the 'governing a star empire' stuff is best left to PC games these days. They make it much easier to track all of the details that make a system that complex worth running.