posted on May 6th, 2011, 12:36 am
At the moment we have a fair number of ships to choose between sort of.
A20 Attack Destroyer. Its a small fragile medium range destroyer that does better against medium range ships but takes more damage from the usually anemic support types. Not really a terrible ability.
C11 Interception Destroyer. small fragile destroyer who is medium range but is a support ship. Has some useful specials but usually targeted before even A20s so its hard to use them in a mixed fleet as only scout ships get shot first.
S2 Escort Cruiser. Small Short ranged Cruiser. This is your meal ticket as dominion in some ways, fast enough to escape just about everyone and with a massive weapons array it does well against long range ships but takes more from short ranged.
A26 Bomber. Small Long ranged Destroyer. Big gun takes out short range units but takes more damage from long. Its an average small ship speed and pretty easily crushed. They are pretty cheap tho.
B8 War Frigate. Medium Long ranged Cruiser. This ship has an odd special which really shouldn't be on a baseline ship. but past that its a more durable and slower bomber. but limit 6 means you can'[t backbone a fleet with them.
Breen Cruiser. Medium Long range Cruiser. Its flimsy and only does well against battleships really but it can be used and its our only cloak.
To me we really need to mix up some ranges. Maybe the interceptor gets long or short? maybe the B8 gets a baseline model thats medium range but we can upgrade 6 into troop carriers giving us a better feel for things.
At the moment anyone who resists long range or torpedo volleys has us thinking of teching up or of bug spamming and building a wall of ships. And most players seem to regard any use of the S2 as over powered yet it doesn't really become broken until you triple yard it.
