is there a counter to the damn birds?

[Slaughterbug]

Seriously, i was having a lot of fun with this game until the aether hawks showed up. there doesn't seem to be any counter for them. i just get swarmed and they peck at my ship until i get lucky and destroy their mother ship first or they sink my vessel. how do i counter them? and when i do what's to stop another wave from showing up and continuing where the last ones left off.

seriously, i was having fun exchanging cannon fire with enemies until they had death bird swarms. is there a way to fight them off or am I just going to have to wait for some updates?

[Duneman]

Put weapons marked as "interception' on your stern, such as 4 Kinetic Lances. Since those are energy weapons they drain very little ammo and the 4 will deal 2,400 together per shot. You can also put a 'Repeater' on your ship, which is a long range interception weapon that doubles as being able to harry small ships.

[racercowan]

As they said, interception weapons. Rotary guns (or the quad rotary turret), air-burst guns, lances. You'll need at least a few per side to prevent fliers from getting in close enough to pummel you.

[gutlor]

I use kinetic beam projectors. Usually one fore and one aft for better broadside coverage. They will take down incoming missiles too if they get lucky.

[culsu]

This is my first game (also on the harder "way it is meant to be played" difficulty), and I noticed just how much more dangerous a fleet with birds is as well.

I switched my starting ship for a ridge dragon, and upgraded it a bit. My fleet strength was 12, but even fleets in the 20s were not really a problem, and I made it up to the black coffin before I decided I would come back with a bigger ship, or at least more than one ship (maybe I could have done that in my ridge dragon, but the first attempt was not that close.)

Bird fleets are bad though, I left one of the side quests which I think is only rated at 14 and seems straight impossible. I even outfitted my ship with lots of interception weapons, but nothing can cover the back, and trying to make sure no birds sit there means I am not fighting the battle.

I am fitting out a cruiser now, and still have the ridge dragon. I noticed I just kind of melt the birds now that I have rear turrets, but for some ships they seem to be a fairly hard counter, especially if you face three opponents with birds.

[Feminist]

those birds only annoying when ur ship is lower than heavy frigate , with bigger ship you got lots of rapid shield gen those bird cant damage ur rear anymore