SE4 and the Navy

[Alpha Kodiak]

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Originally posted by raynor:
Trying to move this conversation back into the realm of SEIV... Have you ever rammed a ship? Drake suggested using colony ships to ram the enemy ships instead of running them into the corner to hide. This works great! My huge world with 25 mineral miners was being attacked by a fleet of 3 frigates and 3 destroyers by a former ally. (Really, I was just caught with my pants down. But I'll say it was a former ally so you don't pick on me.)

All I had in orbit were three colony ships and 12 fighters. The three destroyers had Point Defense Cannons. All six of the enemy ships just had Capital Ship Missile I's otherwise. I rammed the three destroyers with my colony ships and then had my fighters target the destroyer that survived ramming. I won! I won! I won!

Ramming is cool!

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I learned that lesson in one game where I was using a colony ship to scout out a new sector. My first contact in that game was with a frigate at the warp point I went through. For some reason I chose tactical combat, even though I knew I had no weapons. Then, as I started to run for the corner, I thought, why not put up some sort of fight? So, I let the frigate (only armed with range 2 DUC I's) get to range 3, then turned and rammed him. He didn't have much left, so I rammed him again, killing him. I still had enough colony ship (barely) left to limp back to my homeworld.