Want strategies for seiging a planet

[Silent Sorrow]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
There are no such thing as massive defenses in this game (unmodded, ofc). You can always get enough ships to overwhelm any planetary defense.

Yes, I know that. And that's often what I do. But I find it's not all that fun. You just kind of get a huge fleet together, go in and calculate that you've got enough ships left over after you've destroyed the defences. But when you have to do that for 20 or 30 planets, it gets old real fast. And that doesn't take into account having enough ships for my own defence and battling other enemy fleets.

Just wondering if there were other finesse ways of handling this.

[Suicide Junkie]

If you're facing massed massive guns, try fighters.

They should be able to get in under the guns, as long as there isn't too much point defense.

[Silent Sorrow]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
If you're facing massed massive guns, try fighters.

They should be able to get in under the guns, as long as there isn't too much point defense.

Interesting, but those well defended planets I spoke of always have tons of PD as well. Plus some of the regular guns can target fighters anyway so I have a strong feeling the fighters would get chewed up real bad.

Still, I haven't tried that before so I'll defintiely give it a shot.

[geoschmo]

One suggestion that might help is to set your fleet to point blank range. If the planets weapons outrange you anyways there is not really a point in keeping to optimal distance or anything. And doing so will sometimes cause your formation to "stack up" and leave half your fleet out of range of the planet. You end up attackign with 6 or 8 ships at a time and getting chewed up when you could swarm him with your entire fleet at once.

Geoschmo

[Scipio]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
If you're facing massed massive guns, try fighters.

They should be able to get in under the guns, as long as there isn't too much point defense.

I didn`t saw it in the FaQ or perhaps I oversaw it. Does mount weapons like heavy or huge mount means they can not target fighters as good as normal mount? Does they have a negative to hit modifer?

[Phoenix-D]

No, they don't. But barring the Talisman, most ship-to-ship weapons don't hit fighters all that well. Especially on planets, where you can't get a training bonus.

[Mephisto]

Then again ground based weapons with mounts get very high to-hit boni. They will eat your fighters at close range.