Scourge crisis, are their missiles immune to PD and flak?

[Dron]

I have both flak and PD on my destroyers and ships, but I don't see any Scourge missiles being stopped. So should I stop using PD and install only flak? Because flak at least shoots down the Scourge fighters and bombers.

[Azunai]

pretty sure there's always been an issue with point defense weapons ignoring missiles if there are hostile strike craft around. i thought they fixed it at some point, but it seems like that problem is still around (haven't played in a while).

i guess your PD & flak will start deleting missiles once all strike craft are killed, but afaik strike craft now also respawn during battles, so they will probably bug out again once the next wave of swarm strike craft gets launched.

scourge missiles have weak armor penetration, so your best bet may be to stack lots of armor to soak up the missiles and use flak to kill the strike craft.

[Dron]

Originally posted by Azunai:

pretty sure there's always been an issue with point defense weapons ignoring missiles if there are hostile strike craft around. i thought they fixed it at some point, but it seems like that problem is still around (haven't played in a while).

i guess your PD & flak will start deleting missiles once all strike craft are killed, but afaik strike craft now also respawn during battles, so they will probably bug out again once the next wave of swarm strike craft gets launched.

scourge missiles have weak armor penetration, so your best bet may be to stack lots of armor to soak up the missiles and use flak to kill the strike craft.

I have plenty of armour and only token shields. I destroyed 3 Scourge fleets now, 150k each. 1 was alone and then 2 more showed up when I was half way done with the first one. I lost dozens of corvettes and destroyers, but cruisers and battleships losses were less than 10. I wonder if I should still build any corvettes and destroyers to act as a screen or just build bigger ships.

[Jimib4158]

ya i fouund it good to always keep 10 vetts and destroyers......they seem to draw fire and evade better

[Dron]

Originally posted by planning2SUE:

ya i fouund it good to always keep 10 vetts and destroyers......they seem to draw fire and evade better

I would add about 30, if its just 10 then their contribution would be miniscule and they won't last long.