Carrier Battles Mod

[sachmo]

Question:

Why are satellites considered ships in this mod? Was the intention to make them only able to be constructed one at a time?

[Suicide Junkie]

The one at a time building is an unavoidable side effect.

The intention is to make them require resupply and repairs after combat.
To make them spread out, and allow formations.

Generally, it was done to avoid the lame satellite stacking you see in stock, and to make them detailed and useful combat units.

[Atrocities]

Now that is NOT a bad idea. Mind if I use it?

[sachmo]

Atrocities said:
Now that is NOT a bad idea. Mind if I use it?

And fighters work the same way? (im running on memory here since I'm at work!)

It just seems like it will take forever to get a large fighter force up and running when building them one at a time.

[Ed Kolis]

No, fighters in CBmod are still fighters - else they would not be loadable on ships

[sachmo]

Thanks, Ed Kolis. I'll check it out tonight some more.

[Suicide Junkie]

Fighters have a similar end result, although the causes/reasons are different.

Launching fighters in groups of, say 25, will get your navy slaughtered. Covert Jaguar had to learn this the hard way
Launching fighters in groups of three (the default), will keep you competitive in battles. For particularily large fleets (300+), where there simply aren't enough combat squares to launch in groups of three, fives or eights can be useful.

[Dizzy]

Suicide Junkie said:
The one at a time building is an unavoidable side effect.

Ahh, well, if you want one satellite to represent more than one, then make a satellite mount that reduces the weapon tonnage.

I'm not sure how the building shipyards go in CBmod, but my shipyards allow me to spend about 3000 minerals per turn. So if I want one satellite built per turn
so it acts as a ship, can be deployed in formations, and be repaired and all that jazz, but want to represent that each satellite is actually 4, then a general weapon mount for satellites would be made at 25% of tonnage cost. So you'd have one satellite, just with 4x the weaponry on it as an example.

[Suicide Junkie]

Go ahead, Atro.

Dizzy, that's not an issue.
Just use BSYs or SYSs to build the satellites.

Besides, sats in CB are quite strong compared to stock... each one is already big enough to rival a frigate since the sat dosen't use engines or crew.

[Dizzy]

Like I said... I dont know how yours works, but CBmod is the next one Im trying.

Instead of calling it a satellite... you could call it a satellite group, not for you SJ, but this was my reply to the others discussing yours.