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[revo]

Would 6

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Sovereign class Cruiser    10,000 tons     1151 Crew     2294 BP      TCS 200  TH 2100  EM 0
10500 km/s     Armour 1-41     Shields 0-0     Sensors 88/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 18     PPV 32
Maint Life 7.25 Years     MSP 2147    AFR 100%    IFR 1.4%    1YR 71    5YR 1072    Max Repair 360 MSP

Internal Confinement Fusion Drive E6 (21)    Power 100    Fuel Use 60%    Signature 100    Armour 0    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 350,000 Litres    Range 105.0 billion km   (115 days at full power)

25cm C4 Far Ultraviolet Laser (4)    Range 320,000km     TS: 10500 km/s     Power 16-4     RM 5    ROF 20        16 16 16 16 16 13 11 10 8 8
Fire Control S12 160-15000 (1)    Max Range: 320,000 km   TS: 15000 km/s     97 94 91 88 84 81 78 75 72 69
Tokamak Fusion Reactor Technology PB-1 (2)     Total Power Output 16    Armour 0    Exp 5%

Active Search Sensor MR22-R16 (1)     GPS 1792     Range 22.4m km    Resolution 16
Thermal Sensor TH11-88 (1)     Sensitivity 88     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  88m km

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

be able to deal with 46 of these

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star swarm fighters

[Flying Dice]

Technically speaking, a single one of those cruisers could. As long as you've got >10k speed and better range than the Soldiers, you can lead them on a stern chase until you've killed them all.

[revo]

now how long do you think that would take? is their anyways i can put them in the sweet spot out of the meson range but still close enough to have a decent hit chance and just stick them on 10k km/s?

[Girlinhat]

You generally want to be as close as you can get without actually being within range, any further and accuracy is compromised, while any closer puts you at risk.

Mines may do good there as well, since they'll be trailing you that puts them in a prime spot to get bombs dropped in their path.

[Jacob/Lee]

Nah. In Aurora, the alien juggernaught comes to you. If you turned them on, that is.

No matter, it always turns out the same, which this unrelated Loud Whispers quote will tell the outcome.

That's one small step for man, one giant boot crushing alienkind.

[Flying Dice]

Let's see how they like it when the boot's on the other neck, eh?

[Sheb]

However, your lasers are pretty massive, so they should be able to one-shot their target. Whichmean you can speed things up significantly by adding a second fire control.

[revo]

However, your lasers are pretty massive, so they should be able to one-shot their target. Whichmean you can speed things up significantly by adding a second fire control.

I don't understand what you mean. I thought FC worked as fast as possible all the time and adding a second would only help accuracy.

[Metalax]

That isn't how firecontrols work.

FC have a set tracking speed, which limits the weapon tracking speed. The tracking speed used when firing is that of the weapon, so if it is lower than that of the FC it uses that lower value, if it is higher it is limited to that of the FC. The tracking speed is only used in determining penalties to hit if the targets speed is greater than the tracking speed, there is no bonus to hit for having a higher tracking speed than the target.

What Sheb is meaning by speeding things up, is that each FC can only target a single ship, and all weapons linked to that FC will fire on that same ship. If your weapons are powerful enough that, in this case, two of your lasers hitting will kill a target, then by having a second FC the other two lasers could fire at a different ship, causing two kills in the same span of time.

Of course with the fact that you have a longer than 5 second recharge rate on your lasers, you can achieve a similar effect by only linking two lasers to the FC, firing, swapping to the other two lasers and firing on the next increment at a different target.

[revo]

but if I miss then I would be out of luck right? atleast for those 10 seconds. Do you have to manually assign targets for FC for each ship or is their some way to automate it?

[Metalax]

There are buttons in the combat overview screen that will allow you to copy targets and FC setups to other ships of the same class within the taskgroup, and another that will try and split fire between as many targets as possible.

[revo]

ok the thread on the official forums about reduced size lasers got me thinking. What about a ship with so many lasers that is is nearly impossible to not destroy any enemy ship in 1 hit and just downgrade the size of the lasers so that it doesn't take up to much space? You could go with either speed or amour to take up the extra space and allow it to survive during the rediculously long recharge

[forsaken1111]

ok the thread on the official forums about reduced size lasers got me thinking. What about a ship with so many lasers that is is nearly impossible to not destroy any enemy ship in 1 hit and just downgrade the size of the lasers so that it doesn't take up to much space? You could go with either speed or amour to take up the extra space and allow it to survive during the rediculously long recharge

I'd just laugh at you as I launched missiles at you from over a million kilometers away, I guess?

[Metalax]

That wouldn't really be much good except possibly for an alpha strike platform on jump point defence with enough lasers to one shot the entire jumping force.

Reduced size laser tech is really only useful if you actually need the reduced size to fit the lasers onto the platform, eg onto a fighter or FAC. You do better damage over time with regular size lasers.

At fairly high levels of capacitor recharge rate(12/5sec) You can use the 75% size tech to produce size 2 10cm RoF 5 lasers for point defence, enabling you to fit roughly 50% more lasers on the same ship(actually a bit less than that as you will need some space for extra power plants). However the buildcost for the same tonnage devoted to weapons using the smaller lasers will be 4.5 times that of using the regular lasers.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Are there any finished (though unfinished is fine) let's plays that anyone here would reccomend? I've just finished reading Steve's Trans-newtonian campaign, and I've read most of the let's plays here on Bay12, if that helps.