ship strategy, ECM ships

[Ruatha]

So if I construct 1 ECM fighter and 9 offensive fighters at a planet, in wich order should they ba loaded onto the ship, if the ship can launch 10 units per combat turn?

[Pocus]

with cargo transfert you can determine precisely which thing is loaded first iirc. Now sensors are cheap on fighters but are costly on a WP, so it is perhaps better to try optimizing whose WP.

For fighters it is true that you gain one kt of space though... can be slightly interesting.

[Ruatha]

Ah, but the ECM fighter doesn't just have the ECM, it has combat sensor aswell, and can you put scattering and stealth armour on it?
ECM+Combat sensor=2 kt, mucho percentage on a small fighter!

And I do know that I can load them in whatever order I want too, but what I don't know is how that will effect the fighter launch.
How will I load to get the ECM fighter to be the Last one to be blown up by the enemys PDC?

[ May 13, 2003, 21:21: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Fyron]

Test out the loading and launching sequences.

Fighters can't have stealth or scattering armor.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:


Fighters can't have stealth or scattering armor.

Unless you mod it of course.

[Pocus]

loaded first, launched first.

Without speaking of trying to do such kind of optimization, I like to use two kind of fighters, one with direct fire which stay the whole battle, and one with rockets which fire once. I always load the DUC fighters first, so that they get out first of the carriers, and get pLastered first too.

[Loser]

But, with the ECM fighter you need to make certain that an ECM model goes out with each stack. Is that possible?