Poll

Self-explanatory. Choose which is probably the most effective anti-fighter/bomber weapon you can mount on a warship.

Anti-fighter beams
39 (51.3%)
Kaysers
7 (9.2%)
Circe, Maxim combo
4 (5.3%)
Circe, flak combo
7 (9.2%)
Trebuchets
11 (14.5%)
Cluster missiles
2 (2.6%)
Fighterkillers
2 (2.6%)
Swarm missiles
2 (2.6%)
Dumbfire missiles
1 (1.3%)
Heat-seeking missiles
1 (1.3%)

Total Members Voted: 76

Author Topic: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible  (Read 22293 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline headdie

  • i don't use punctuation lol
  • 212
  • Lawful Neutral with a Chaotic outook
    • Minecraft
    • Skype
    • Twitter
    • Headdie on Deviant Art
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
went kayses in the absence of a kayser & HL-7 option
Minister of Interstellar Affairs Sol Union - Retired
quote General Battuta - "FRED is canon!"
Contact me at [email protected]
My Release Thread, Old Release Thread, Celestial Objects Thread, My rubbish attempts at art

 

Offline General Battuta

  • Poe's Law In Action
  • 214
  • i wonder when my postcount will exceed my iq
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
Don't Kaysers have like an 800 meter range? Making them basically worthless on capships, where range is paramount?

Anyone voting for them is silly.

 

Offline Rodo

  • Custom tittle
  • 212
  • stargazer
    • Minecraft
    • Steam
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
not that silly option if you're gonna have a swarm of fighters getting close, or any kind of boarding operation.
el hombre vicio...

 

Offline headdie

  • i don't use punctuation lol
  • 212
  • Lawful Neutral with a Chaotic outook
    • Minecraft
    • Skype
    • Twitter
    • Headdie on Deviant Art
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
Don't Kaysers have like an 800 meter range? Making them basically worthless on capships, where range is paramount?

Anyone voting for them is silly.

Reading the title of the poll I went for that option.  Anyway may marksmanship is poop at maxim range and i enjoy dodging AAAF beams
Minister of Interstellar Affairs Sol Union - Retired
quote General Battuta - "FRED is canon!"
Contact me at [email protected]
My Release Thread, Old Release Thread, Celestial Objects Thread, My rubbish attempts at art

 

Offline General Battuta

  • Poe's Law In Action
  • 214
  • i wonder when my postcount will exceed my iq
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
not that silly option if you're gonna have a swarm of fighters getting close, or any kind of boarding operation.

There are any number of weapons that will do just as well in Kayser range. Standard flak for one, which is god-tier with Fury AI.

 

Offline headdie

  • i don't use punctuation lol
  • 212
  • Lawful Neutral with a Chaotic outook
    • Minecraft
    • Skype
    • Twitter
    • Headdie on Deviant Art
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
not that silly option if you're gonna have a swarm of fighters getting close, or any kind of boarding operation.

There are any number of weapons that will do just as well in Kayser range. Standard flak for one, which is god-tier with Fury AI.

but you cant mount flak on your Erinyes
Minister of Interstellar Affairs Sol Union - Retired
quote General Battuta - "FRED is canon!"
Contact me at [email protected]
My Release Thread, Old Release Thread, Celestial Objects Thread, My rubbish attempts at art

 

Offline Droid803

  • Trusted poster of legit stuff
  • 213
  • /人 ◕ ‿‿ ◕ 人\ Do you want to be a Magical Girl?
    • Skype
    • Steam
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
not that silly option if you're gonna have a swarm of fighters getting close, or any kind of boarding operation.

There are any number of weapons that will do just as well in Kayser range. Standard flak for one, which is god-tier with Fury AI.

but you cant mount flak on your Erinyes

This is a question of anti-fighter CAPITAL weapons...
(´・ω・`)
=============================================================

 

Offline headdie

  • i don't use punctuation lol
  • 212
  • Lawful Neutral with a Chaotic outook
    • Minecraft
    • Skype
    • Twitter
    • Headdie on Deviant Art
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
fair enough
Minister of Interstellar Affairs Sol Union - Retired
quote General Battuta - "FRED is canon!"
Contact me at [email protected]
My Release Thread, Old Release Thread, Celestial Objects Thread, My rubbish attempts at art

 

Offline Kolgena

  • 211
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
and i enjoy dodging AAAF beams

Teach me how T_T

 

Offline Droid803

  • Trusted poster of legit stuff
  • 213
  • /人 ◕ ‿‿ ◕ 人\ Do you want to be a Magical Girl?
    • Skype
    • Steam
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
Sit still and there's a chance the beam will graze you harmlessly, but that's about it.
(´・ω・`)
=============================================================

 

Offline Kolgena

  • 211
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
I do that, which results in 1 of the 3 pulses hitting me. But on insane, that's not really good enough.

 

Offline Fury

  • The Curmudgeon
  • 213
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
Long Range Flak, with or without custom AI. End of topic.

 

Offline headdie

  • i don't use punctuation lol
  • 212
  • Lawful Neutral with a Chaotic outook
    • Minecraft
    • Skype
    • Twitter
    • Headdie on Deviant Art
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
I do that, which results in 1 of the 3 pulses hitting me. But on insane, that's not really good enough.

just done a few test runs against a Fenris on insane, trying a mix of fighters, approaching the rear of the ship from the side so easily in clear line of sight of one of the beams but not the other and...  ok the best I managed was 2 clear misses and a graze on the 3rd pulse while in a Zeus, anything heavier and you just don't have the agility to dodge anything except blobs and anything lighter than a Myrmadon gets chewed before you can do any notable damage to the beams with all the dodging, the only "cheat" I used was to pack 1 rack of torpedoes where the tables allowed, releasing 1 torp after the second set of pulses which had me pretty close and only carried HL-7 and if available a bank of Kaysers in the cannons so no maxim sniping.  oh and helios cant lock fast enough to do it between dodges, Cyclops can with a little luck but I usually got hit by the first pulse waiting for lock to finish.
Minister of Interstellar Affairs Sol Union - Retired
quote General Battuta - "FRED is canon!"
Contact me at [email protected]
My Release Thread, Old Release Thread, Celestial Objects Thread, My rubbish attempts at art

 
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
and i enjoy dodging AAAF beams

Teach me how T_T
You could go at a 90 deg angle from the beams and hit burners. That way, when you get hit, you'll be out of the beam before it ends shooting, and only take a very small amount of damage at the beginning of the shot.

Another method is to fire a bomb and move 20-30 meters away- especially when there's no blobs or flak on the enemy ship. Beams take time to hit bombs pretty often, and bombs are the #1 target for turrets.

Also- after making a few tests, the Standard Flak wins against AAAf in shooting down both bombs and bombers.

The test was made by arming one Deimos with all Flak, and one with all AAA. Both were attacked by waves of 6 bombers, armed with Shivan Megabombs in all bays. Only the Flak Corvette survived the first wave nearly every time. The AAA ship did that only once. There were some 10 tests.

Here's a screenshot:


'Teeth of the Tiger' - campaign in the making
Story, Ships, Weapons, Project Leader.

 

Offline NGTM-1R

  • I reject your reality and substitute my own
  • 213
  • Syndral Active. 0410.
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
Cluster missiles, if they were competently designed. Which they are not.

Realistically, the best anti-fighter weapon for a capital is escorting fighters.

In the awesome world of completely impractical silliness: Cluster missiles firing submunitions that fire AAA beams when they explode!
"Load sabot. Target Zaku, direct front!"

A Feddie Story

 

Offline headdie

  • i don't use punctuation lol
  • 212
  • Lawful Neutral with a Chaotic outook
    • Minecraft
    • Skype
    • Twitter
    • Headdie on Deviant Art
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
Cluster missiles, if they were competently designed. Which they are not.

Realistically, the best anti-fighter weapon for a capital is escorting fighters.

In the awesome world of completely impractical silliness: Cluster missiles firing submunitions that fire AAA beams when they explode!

if you could miniturise anti fighter beams enough you would basicaly have a missile delivery system for a group of one shot cannons
Minister of Interstellar Affairs Sol Union - Retired
quote General Battuta - "FRED is canon!"
Contact me at [email protected]
My Release Thread, Old Release Thread, Celestial Objects Thread, My rubbish attempts at art

 

Offline NGTM-1R

  • I reject your reality and substitute my own
  • 213
  • Syndral Active. 0410.
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
if you could miniturise anti fighter beams enough you would basicaly have a missile delivery system for a group of one shot cannons

I was actually figuring something like take FS' more efficient use of explosives and make scaled-down X-ray lasers.
"Load sabot. Target Zaku, direct front!"

A Feddie Story

 

Offline Charismatic

  • also known as Ephili
  • 210
  • Pilot of the GTVA
    • EVO
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
First choice is Anti-Fighter Beamz. Voted for FighterKillers tho as teh beam is obvious choice.
:::PROUD VASUDAN RIGHTS SUPPORTER:::
M E M O R I A L :: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,46987.msg957350.html#new

"IIRC Windows is not Microsoft."

"(CENSORED) Galatea send more than two (CENSORED) fighters to escort your (CENSORED) three mile long (CENSORED), STUPID (CENSORED).  (CENSORED) YOU, YOU (CENSORED)!!!"

 

Offline Dragon

  • Citation needed
  • 212
  • The sky is the limit.
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
In canon, AAA beams.
Outside it, rapid-firing Phalanx-style CIWS (or a Morningstar with "same turret cooldown").
Uninterrupted, almost perfectly accurate stream of fire, which creates a disorienting flash and tears attacking fighters to shreds.

  

Offline headdie

  • i don't use punctuation lol
  • 212
  • Lawful Neutral with a Chaotic outook
    • Minecraft
    • Skype
    • Twitter
    • Headdie on Deviant Art
Re: Deadliest anti-fighter capital weapon possible
In canon, AAA beams.
Outside it, rapid-firing Phalanx-style CIWS (or a Morningstar with "same turret cooldown").
Uninterrupted, almost perfectly accurate stream of fire, which creates a disorienting flash and tears attacking fighters to shreds.
sentry guns with morningstars are fun to kill without using missiles
Minister of Interstellar Affairs Sol Union - Retired
quote General Battuta - "FRED is canon!"
Contact me at [email protected]
My Release Thread, Old Release Thread, Celestial Objects Thread, My rubbish attempts at art