Ramming a battleship at full speed works

[Capitalist Overlord]

So I went into a hard fight with a battleship and two other ships. I knocked out the other ships and the battleship was left.

Well my ships can basically go in a straight line and that's it. Their battleship also refused to dodged. So a gunship ran into a battleship and took the whole thing out.

I guess that's one way to beat a superior foe. Just get a hunk of metal and ram it no tactics needed except lots of point defense!

[corisai]

Originally posted by Capitalist Overlord:

I guess that's one way to beat a superior foe. Just get a hunk of metal and ram it no tactics needed except lots of point defense!

Will not work as a reliable strategy - due to their mechanic any laser-armor warship will wipe your kamikaze ships at point blank range.

[Eirshy]

Originally posted by corisai:

Originally posted by Capitalist Overlord:

I guess that's one way to beat a superior foe. Just get a hunk of metal and ram it no tactics needed except lots of point defense!

Will not work as a reliable strategy - due to their mechanic any laser-armor warship will wipe your kamikaze ships at point blank range.

Joke's on them if they didn't bring lasers tho.

[Pappus]

Originally posted by Eirshy:

Originally posted by corisai:

Will not work as a reliable strategy - due to their mechanic any laser-armor warship will wipe your kamikaze ships at point blank range.

Joke's on them if they didn't bring lasers tho.

or you bring armor.

[Chimp Factory [M04]]

Originally posted by Twitch/Pappus:

Originally posted by Eirshy:

Joke's on them if they didn't bring lasers tho.

or you bring armor.

More armour means more mass.
More mass X acceleration means more force for ramming

[Soul]

Honestly not a bad strategy lol

[corisai]

Originally posted by Twitch/Pappus:

or you bring armor.

At point blank range? Against lasers? O_O Armor is not existing :P

[ExavierMacbeth]

My favorite was killing a 2x laser 3x pd alien dreadnaught with my 3 dinky little copperhead/nemesis monitors :P

I ordered all 3 of them onto ramming speed from the outset and let them cut loose on the missiles... As the ships accelerated the missile volleys got closer and closer to stacking. By the time I entered his PD range there were too many targets for him to shoot at at the same time & a nemesis torpedo snuck through.

All 3 monitors survived :P

[Eirshy]

Originally posted by Twitch/Pappus:

Originally posted by Eirshy:

Joke's on them if they didn't bring lasers tho.

or you bring armor.

Alien lasers are gonna be rocking like a 5% Effective Armor Rating at that distance. You're gonna need something like 300 points of prow to have a chance to tank the first few, and the chip rating is gonna get bad real fast.

[Capitalist Overlord]

Originally posted by Eirshy:

Originally posted by Twitch/Pappus:

or you bring armor.

Alien lasers are gonna be rocking like a 5% Effective Armor Rating at that distance. You're gonna need something like 300 points of prow to have a chance to tank the first few, and the chip rating is gonna get bad real fast.

I was facing mass driver foes. However they seemed to notice I was on a ramming path so they tilted their ship to change course or dodge which made their weapons ineffective. Funny enough it looked like the enemy ship was doing panic maneuvers which made my ship ram it on the sides.

The Realism was hilarious.

[Iron Horse]

Originally posted by ExavierMacbeth:

My favorite was killing a 2x laser 3x pd alien dreadnaught with my 3 dinky little copperhead/nemesis monitors :P

I ordered all 3 of them onto ramming speed from the outset and let them cut loose on the missiles... As the ships accelerated the missile volleys got closer and closer to stacking. By the time I entered his PD range there were too many targets for him to shoot at at the same time & a nemesis torpedo snuck through.

All 3 monitors survived :P

I noticed there is no collateral damage to those nukes.

[ulzgoroth]

I had a pair of motherships bulling in on a station, where I dispatched a sacrificial squadron to try to inflict a bit of damage (and maybe scare them away without killing the place).

I managed to catch a destroyer out with railguns, which was nice.

Then, down to my last destroyer, I thought 'that mothership is basically running me over, what if I...'

And then there was only one mothership.

[Speck]

Its the most effective way to deal with motherships even late in the tech tree. Otherwise you will get half your fleet blown up cause the combat score means nothing.

[ulzgoroth]

Originally posted by Speck:

Its the most effective way to deal with motherships even late in the tech tree. Otherwise you will get half your fleet blown up cause the combat score means nothing.

The ones I'm seeing wouldn't be all that hard to kill, if they weren't surrounded by escorts. They've only got the one spinal cannon and a boatload of missiles, so once the missiles are depleted a single gunship should be able to go backstab them to death.

[dimm_ddr]

It is a valid strategy. And AI even aware of that. I have one fight against 2 motherships with some lesser ships escort. I reloaded it countless times because AI just full speed those giant motherships into my formation, flight right through it destroying half of my fleet. Mothership did not even become yellow after ramming into 7-10 of my ship destroying them in the process. The rest was quickly eliminated by its lasers at pointblank range.

[ulzgoroth]

Originally posted by dimm_ddr:

It is a valid strategy. And AI even aware of that. I have one fight against 2 motherships with some lesser ships escort. I reloaded it countless times because AI just full speed those giant motherships into my formation, flight right through it destroying half of my fleet. Mothership did not even become yellow after ramming into 7-10 of my ship destroying them in the process. The rest was quickly eliminated by its lasers at pointblank range.

Pretty sure you're misinterpreting that. Ramming is catastrophic. I'm not sure the aliens even are allowed to ram, but if they did they would absolutely not get away unscathed.