I'm going to start booting people who don't upload their EMPs in order to make room for those who are more serious about this.
CB#8 has four players at the moment.
Its enough for a small game, but it would be nice to have enough players to form multiple alliances. Now's your chance to join.
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Atrocities:
Carriers are quite difficult to kill, particularily if you devote the appropriate tonnage to a good ratio of shields and armor.
Although when empty, a carrier is barely worth its tonnage in warships and can be easily overwhelmed, its fighters can be designed to make up for all of its deficiencies (point defense, mainly, but sheer firepower is good too).
The only thing a carrier and its fighters are not so good at, is missile bombardment. For the best bombardments, you want a constant stream of missiles with which to saturate the enemy ranks and avoid too much overkill.
A carrier which has lost its fighter complement has been essentially neutered. Unless its fighters dealt severe damage to the enemy before dying, the carrier dosen't stand a chance. It can certainly take hits, and may dish out enough damage to finish cripples, but its cargo bays are now empty, and support weapons should not have been a high priority.
Support weapons are for support ships.
Carrier weapons are the cargo bays
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PS:
Perhaps I should make a graphical "Fighters 201: Design and Strategy" and post it up on imagemodserver.