Best ship size?

[Fyron]

Do you remember the Wiley Coyote guy with the ACME Uber-Escort strategy. ROFL! That was too funny. That might have been before you were hanging out on the forum though. What was his name anyway? I can't remmeber now. I don't think he Posts anymore.

His name was GUTB.

My only problem is that dreadnoughts have no defensive penalties, but baseships have a 40% defense penalty; that seems like a big jump to me, even if baseships DO get to use massive weapon mounts...

Remember, a Baseship is essentially a Starbase fitted with engines. That is where the 40% comes from. It is slightly more manueverable than a sitting space hulk, but not by much.

[ July 23, 2002, 19:24: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Suicide Junkie]

LCs at first.
Later, a mix of BCs and DNs.
Late in the game, all Battlemoons (in fleets of 2 or 3) to minimize the micromanagement.

[Puke]

Heavy transports.

fill half with cargo modules. pack in engines, solar sails, ecm, and stealth/scattering armor. fill the rest up with as much organic armor or shields as you can fit, maybe leaving enough space for a point defense gun or two.

guard it with a couple minesweepers, and space-to-space combat ships, and go conquer some worlds.

[Puke]

honestly though, i usually use battleships as troop transports. same size, but you can put on less cargo and more armor/shields. 1/4 of the space devoted to cargo is usually more than enough to conquer a homeworld class planet, in the unmodded game.