Lotsa fighters...

[Master Belisarius]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
MB, aren't shields on units considered hit points of the unit, and not actually shields?

Well, this would be not the first time that I'm wrong about something!!!
But at least in the simulator, at the right side you could see the red line for the components, and the blue line if the fighter group has shields. If the fighter group only has armors, you only will see the red line.
Also, the shield depleters can hit the fighter's shields.

[Skulky]

do your best to increase odds to hit, fights can be tuff to hit even with PDC (you can get them up to 110% "to miss") make sure u have either talismans or combat sensors on your ships, then do the usual ecm, scater armor, cloak armor, APB's seem to work wella gainst large Groups, you could also try just ignoring the planets (like hiding in the corner with heavy PDC) and use tectonic bombs.

[oleg]

Originally posted by Master Belisarius:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
MB, aren't shields on units considered hit points of the unit, and not actually shields?

Well, this would be not the first time that I'm wrong about something!!!
But at least in the simulator, at the right side you could see the red line for the components, and the blue line if the fighter group has shields. If the fighter group only has armors, you only will see the red line.
Also, the shield depleters can hit the fighter's shields.

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Indeed, shielded fighter group shows both "red" and "blue" bars. But "blue" is for decoration only. If you check the amount of points in "red" bar, it will be exactly fighter' structure+shields ! Thus, neither PPB or null-space give any benefits. 1.78 bug aside, neither is time-distortion bust. AFAIK, shield depletors are wasted against fighters. I'm still confused about crystalline energy lense. There are conflicting Posts that it is either does not work at all or it works and add points to all fighters in stack.

[ September 14, 2002, 13:44: Message edited by: oleg ]

[TerranC]

If you are a religious player:

create your basic ship with your basic defenses and components.

for whatever space you have left in the ship:

fill it up with the latest APB, or PPB or maybe PDC.

put in a religious talisman inside the ship.

You now have the never miss aegis cruiser.