Many (semi) newbie questions...advice requested.

[Noble713]

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Originally posted by Dragonlord:
10: Ripper Beams...am still not really convinced, maybe they get better at levels 3 or 4...but a level 1 or 2 is useless compared to other weapons I had at that stage. (I loved the level 5 phased weapons!)

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I've tried to use them in both SE3 and 4 by loading up destroyers and such with them, trying to make some kind of fast attack ship, and it's never worked. I think someone mentioned the following ship design/tactic in another thread:

Baseship hull
make sure the weapons are put in the following order:
Massive Mount Tractor Beam
Massive Mount Ripper Beams (a bunch)
Massive Mount Repulsor Beam (at least 1, maybe 2 or 3)

The plan is for the tractor beam to grap a ship from across the tactical map, pull it in to close range, gut it with the ripper beams, and then push it back across the screen again. You're opponenent ends up with a wrecked ship that isn't in position to even fire back or ram something.