If you place a single "normal" weapon on your PDC ship then it will stay in the thick of battle instead of hiding in the corner waiting for missiles to be launched. It makes them *much* more effective. In the later techs, I found a nice combination for a PDC ship is: a whole bunch of PDC followed by 2 warp-weapons. You need 2 warp-weapons since they have a rate-of-fire of 2. The warp-weapons keep them with your main fleet since they will want to use them on the enemy ships. But where it is really cool is if there is a large fighter stack, the PDC will chop it down and when it runs out, then warp-weapon will zap the fighter stack across the screen again.
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Originally posted by Gryphin:
As much as I like "specialty" ships like an "Aegis" PDC Crusier, I have taken to putting 3 or more PDC on most front line ships. If I am in a two front war and one race does not use suitable targets for a PDC, I create an apropriate Front Line Ship for that front. I don't like it, but to hard code a suitable behavior for this situation would probably cost too much.