[Phoenix-D]

"Why Direct Fire warheads instead of contact ones? Is this something that fits with the HH universe, or a workaround for some problem you came across trying to implement the missle drones."

Ramming is not affected by ECM; HH universe missiles are very much affected by ECM. So the contact warheads are range-1 single shot. The HH books also have a weapon called the laser-head missile; it's a bomb-driven laser mounted on a missile. Missile flies to within 40k kilometers, denonates the bomb which fires the laser at the target.. it's also supposed to destroy the missile, but I can't make SE4 do that.

"What do you mean by "the Drones get in each others way"? I can see a hundred drones with direct fire weapons milling about could be a problem, since they dont' stack like fighters. Is that what you mean? I wonder if maybe my first question has the answer for the second. If you change the warheads back to ramming warheads don't you eliminate the problem of them getting in each others way?"

No, you don't. The HH universe also has ships firing *obscene* numbers of missiles to saturate the enemy point defense. I've cut that down by at least a factor of 10, but in a major fleet battle there will STILL be hundreds of drones flying around; even before they get to the target they get in each other's way because they can't stack. I suppose I could use fighters for the missiles instead of drones, but then I wouldn't be able to do another component, that is light attack craft.

"Your other three problems stated in your post aren't really problems for the mod I am considering."

Good..

"The store 50,000 drones and launch them at the first fleet that attacks would be a problem. However, it would actually be a problem for attacker and defender as well, since once launched the drones cannot be recovered a simple single ship probing defenses would clear out any stockpile of drone missles and these two things would cancel each other out and make the defenders less likely to attempt this tactic, don't you think?"

Perhaps. We'll have to see I guess..

Phoenix-D