hard counter for guizurean ?

[Dovahkiin]

im probably almost mid game, no shak yet, and gizurean are running away with it. seems their fleets are 1 third destroyers with two fighter bays, and the rest frigates. im playing mortalen. i think my tech is pretty equal. i guess my question is, is there a hard counter to fighter and frigate spam? other than doing the same i suppose, though my weapon focus has been on mortalan torpedos . their frigates seem to have hive missles and assault blasters. thoughts

[Niroc]

Point defense, your own frigates/escorts and, failing that. Your own fighter squadrons.

[VoiD]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1531540/discussions/0/4624727169571025892/#c4624727169571060699

[peterputer]

Mass point defense as Void said should work well. What also should be possible is to get some aoe weapons and target the fighter clump directly. The downside of Gizurean fighter bays is that they rebuild their fighters pretty slow. So when you knocked them out, you can get into dogfights with their fleet.

As Ackdarian I simply stole their fighter bays and outfightered them.

Btw is there a story event or something that gives Gizurens hive missiles pretty fast? I often see them using them quite early in the game.

[Dovahkiin]

I was wondering about the AOE but I don't know what would restrict them to only fire at range. Eventually it'll just be one cluster and I imagine that would get pretty suicidal at that point

[76561198042686546]

Overlapping grid of Beam PD tends to swat fighter spam pretty quickly.