Newbie Question...Weapon Platforms ?

[nweaver]

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Originally posted by Nyx:
I find that WP with several PD weapons and missiles can stalemate or win against any ship that tries to duck in and out of weapon range. Especially if you have missiles with a range of 10 or more as no direct fire weapons can fire from that range.

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Unfortunatly, this dies to dedicated bombers: Back when I was actually building ship fleets against the AI, I'd have to deal with some rather tough planets, full of weapons platforms, and the AI has a "thing" for such weapons platforms.

Dedicated bombers, a few in each fleet, chassis with only point defense and bombs (+ armor/shields), tended to shread these planets. They would have enough point defense to knock down most of the missile swarms, and one or two bombloads tended to be enough to eliminate the platforms.