Do Small DUCs suck?

[Nethog]

I attacked a Cryslonite planet with a bunch of ships and a Carrier loaded with 44 Small Fighters each configured with 2 Small DUC IIIs. The Cryslonites had around 25 fighters with Small Shard Cannons I. The Cryslonite fighters seem to hit my fighters on average every other shot. My fighters rarely seemed to hit the Cryslonite fighters (the hit chance displayed 1% at 1 square distance). So do Small DUCs have an inherit disadvantage when targeting fighters?

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Nethog

[Nitram Draw]

Don't think so.
Did the other fighters have any ECM or Combat sensors?
Also, there appears to be a bug with fighters, the attack and defense modifiers of all fighters in a group seem to be added together. Were the Groups about the same size?

[Alpha Kodiak]

I haven't seen small DUCs in use in 1.35 yet, but in previous Versions they worked great. They are typically my weapon of choice for fighters and troops.

[geoschmo]

Nethog, just curious. There is another thread describing a problem with percentages to hit fighters being ridiculously low for all weapons except point defense. Looks like its a bug with 1.35.

Are you sure your fighters are being shot down by his fighters and not by PDC on his planet or other ships? That would make sense if that bug is as reported.

Geo

[nerfman]

I used them on some fighters and they worked, although the defensive/offensive bonus stacking bug caused the engagements to have some qwerky differences.

A large group of fighters seems to be able to crush the same number of fighters broken up into smaller Groups, but the single invincible group also wastes a lot of firepower and doesn't cover as much area to protect your fleet. It gets wierd. Hope this gets fixed.

[This message has been edited by nerfman (edited 15 May 2001).]

[Q]

What are the fighter group sizes? The bug is related to fighter group size: The larger Groups will be extremely hard to hit and have a higher chance to hit the smaller Groups.