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[Girlinhat]

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Swarms have a number of CIWS and gauss turrets, I believe I read.

Matriarchs are massive beasts.  Let's see if your troops can capture it!

[Jacob/Lee]

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You can capture Swarm ships? Cool. I won't though, it'll probably explode the next increment...

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Matriarch #8632 class Star Swarm    200000 tons     11341 Crew     60185 BP      TCS 4000  TH 25000  EM 150000
6250 km/s     Armour 24-304     Shields 5000-300     Sensors 3750/3750/0/0     Damage Control 1     PPV 503.1
Annual Failure Rate: 249124%    IFR: 3460.1%    Maintenance Capacity 0 MSP
Parasite Capacity 64000 tons     

Magnetic Confinement Fusion Drive E7 (200)    Power 125    Fuel Use 70%    Armour 0    Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 650,000 Litres    Range 8.4 billion km   (15 days at full power)
Tau R300/70 Shields (500)   Total Fuel Cost  35,000 Litres per day

Twin R10.5/C6 Meson Cannon Turret (43x2)    Range 105,000km     TS: 50000 km/s     Power 6-12     RM 10.5    ROF 5        1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Fire Control S04 100-50000 (3)    Max Range: 200,000 km   TS: 50000 km/s     95 90 85 80 75 70 65 60 55 50
Plasma-core Anti-matter Power Plant Technology PB-1 (43)     Total Power Output 516     Armour 0    Exp 5%

Thermal Sensor TH50-3750 (1)     Sensitivity 3750     Detect Signature 1000: 3750m km
Active Search Sensor MR5400-R100 (1)     GPS 72000     Range 5,400.0m km     Resolution 100
Active Search Sensor MR45-R1 (1)     GPS 60     Range 45.0m km     Resolution 1
EM Detection Sensor EM50-3750 (1)     Sensitivity 3750     Detect Strength 1000: 3750m km

ECCM-3 (1)         ECM 30

This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes

I'd also need a train of tankers right behind it to gas it up every half a month.

[Girlinhat]

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You don't have a 250,000 capacity carrier sitting about?  Funny, I thought everyone had a planet mover!

[forsaken1111]

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You don't have a 250,000 capacity carrier sitting about?  Funny, I thought everyone had a planet mover!

Planets are quite a bit bigger than that. Like the moon is ~8x10¹⁹ tons iirc

/pedantic

[Flying Dice]

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Swarms have a number of CIWS and gauss turrets, I believe I read.

Matriarchs are massive beasts.  Let's see if your troops can capture it!

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They are exclusively meson-armed, and as you can see from the class design, the hives are heavily shielded. This means that unless you have very good missile tech, the best way to deal with hives is usually to build laser/railgun/particle beam ships that are faster than the hives and just sit outside meson range with a follow command, continually firing on it until the shields go down.

[Girlinhat]

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Those mesons and shields are a tough combo.  Best bet may be to load ECM and some oversized Meson power to try for lucky internal hits.  If you can get a reactor chain explosion, that'll probably destroy it outright.  Alternatively, microwave does great damage to shields and lasers/troops do a good job of penetrating armor.  If you could microwave it to hell and shut off the sensors and firecon, then you could even bring in something like carronades to bludgeon it.

[Sirus]

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There is nothing to spoil here. I just wanted in on the fun 

[SirAaronIII]

So... ECM and ECCM? Are they worth it? Because ECM seems really awesome at high levels. Maybe even at low.

[Flying Dice]

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I heard you like spoilers, so I put spoilers in your spoilers. Look again, because the spoilers are now diamonds! Oh, wait, they're still just spoilers.

Yeah, they're worth it.


On another note, MW seems like a waste of research, but I'd go for it in multiplayer games just for the sheer dickery factor.

[Girlinhat]

ECM reduces the enemy sensor range.  If they have a 100k km fire control, then ECM might reduce that to 50k km or whatever.  It reduces a lot of their range advantage.  1 strength ECCM counters 1 strength ECM.

[Jacob/Lee]

On another note, MW seems like a waste of research, but I'd go for it in multiplayer games just for the sheer dickery factor.

What's MW again?

[Flying Dice]

On another note, MW seems like a waste of research, but I'd go for it in multiplayer games just for the sheer dickery factor.

What's MW again?

Microwave, though it doesn't seem like it gets used enough for there to be a need for any sort of collectively agreed-upon shortening.

[Jacob/Lee]

On another note, MW seems like a waste of research, but I'd go for it in multiplayer games just for the sheer dickery factor.

What's MW again?

Microwave, though it doesn't seem like it gets used enough for there to be a need for any sort of collectively agreed-upon shortening.

Oh, what's the dickery factor with microwaves?

[LostCosmonaut]

They won't actually kill your ship, they'll just blind your sensors and fire controls so that you flail about helplessly while being pounded into scrap.

[Girlinhat]

They strike at sensors, fire control, and I think ECM/ECCM.  They do 1 damage per hit, but ignore armor and do 3 damage to shields.  Good for ripping through shields and then crippling a ship for your marines to take over, but in a large fight you need to disable ALL the ships via microwave, or else it's not worth it.  It's a fair way to cripple a heavy ship too, if you don't have the firepower for a brawl you can fight dirty.