Carrier questions

[Narlotep]

Baron,

Actually fighter Groups can be "Fleeted" just like ships, which permits the rotation of resuppliers into the "fleet" to maintain supply.

I have made extensive use of Starfuries with the B5 "race" for both frontline and rear area security. In cooperation with smaller vessels, they provide pretty good and quick defense in depth.

If based at a planet, you may as well launch them to act as a quick reaction force anywhere in a system. As long as they are stacked on the planet, they are resupplied...er, not sure even if Resupply Depot is required. I'll double check later.

Now if only they could get through WPs...
Narlotep

[LazarusLong42]

quote:

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Originally posted by Taqwus:
Since your fighters are probably faster than your carriers (eventually they can get up to combat speed 9)

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Combat speed 15.

Nine engines (9) + three point bonus for Quantum (3) + Afterburners III (3).

9+3+3 = 15

LL

[Taqwus]

Engine movement points, and their bonus movement, is rated in strategic movement, and needs to be divided by two (rounding up). Afterburners is in combat movement.

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[Shadow99]

Fighter combat gets really good if you switch vehicle sizes for the larger fighter types like I did (30 for medium, 45 for large). This keeps them useful well into the end of the game & replace most of my escorts & frigates... Though I'm thinking of adjusting them down a notch to 25/40 (medium/large)... Course I also added 5 lvls to each smaller sized weapon to balance out dmg caused by fighters, so you need to dedicate more to make them effective...