Strategic Help required!

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, they are range 4, and if I research the Talisman, I'll go from 10% chance @ range 1 to 100% chance @ range 4.

I'm thinking that with the tachyons & talisman, I might take out all the weapons on a DN with 2 LCs at max range, and only end up taking one volley of enemy fire. I could then capture the ship with a few normal weapons, for ship, shield, engine, armor, ECM, ComSen, etc.


[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 23 April 2001).]

[Nitram Draw]

It may work provided you survive long enough to take out most of their weapons. APB XII at range 4, (heavy mount?), pack a pretty good punch.

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, one LC getting hit by one HM-APB-XII will lose shields & armor, but internals survive.
I do have a pair of repair ships (with resupply pods on 'em)

If I found a solo Jreanar DN, I could jump him with 2LCs and a Repair ship.
The Jreanar have only one APB per ship (rest missiles) and I've got decent PD.

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 23 April 2001).]

[Nitram Draw]

SJ,
This will probably work in tactical IF there is only 1 DN.
Build 10-15 kamakize escorts and 1-2 capture escorts.
Attack the DN with the kamikazis, you will probably lose 5 - 10 of them in closing the range. 5 kamikazis with cobalt warhead III (1500 damage points) should take down all the shields. Then capture it and use it as a defender in the WP until you can capture another for analysis. The AI should target the kamikzis because the capture ship doesn't have a weapon.
Don't know if it will work in strategic but it may.
If you can capture enough of them you may have max shields and APB's in only a few years!

[This message has been edited by Nitram Draw (edited 23 April 2001).]

[Suicide Junkie]

I'd rather not go kamikaze. And I don't have the funds to be (re)building ships like that. If I took the Cobalts off & used Tachyons, I could disable the weapons & have lots of time to cut away at the shields, then capture.

Not sure if I'm gonna absolutely require the talisman to pull it off...

[Nitram Draw]

If you can capture just 1-2 for defending the WP you should be ok. Sounds like there is a lot of free, expensive research available on those ships, if you can just grab the first one!

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, with a simulator test, I realized the Jreanar have two HM-APB-XIIs (and 9 CSMs) on their newest DNs.
With 6 TPC Vs on 2 LCs, I managed to take out half his weapons over 2 volleys of tachyons at 50% accuracy (1 range).

I reduced my shielding & armor to fit 3TPC and a DUC on, so the first hit takes out my shields the second takes out half my armor. Hits 3 takes out armor & #4 does some internal damage.

I'm gonna have to Strike a single DN with at least a third of my LCs converted to 3TPC/1DUC/low defence.

I may be able to use my Frigates as PD support & DUCs for shield draining, and give my LCs more defence or more TPCs.