[Taqwus]

Old DDs?

Hmmm. Depends what you're up against, and how evil you are. If you're feeling particularly sadistic and your borders include a few black hole systems, maybe you could put those engine-killing missiles on 'em. Slow down your foes, then run away and let gravity do the rest, and you're not tying up a particularly valuable ship to do this.

Maybe a minesweeper role would be fine, as well -- IIRC, the sweeper component is pretty small.

I've used DDs as long-range scouts (engines, 1-2x armor perhaps, a single seeker, a single PD, and the rest supply); they're cheap enough that by the time you're pumping out CAs, the loss of such a cheap DD isn't much of a loss at all. Useful for finding the remaining opponents when it's a large galaxy and there's somebody you haven't even seen yet.


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