Want strategies for seiging a planet

[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.

[Stone Mill]

I like to use medium or large transports...

ECM III
Stealth and Scattering III
Lots of extra armor III
Solar sails III
A few point defense.
Maybe a weapon or bomb if I feel giddy.
Usually trained 20% in a 20% fleet

This gives your invasion vessel some quickness, defense, and survivability.

Carry a small sample of every breathing type for instant exchange.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by 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.

My DUCs, PPBs, APBs, etc. never have problems hitting fighters.