Good fleet composition?

[Pepster]

So what's a good fleet? Go big and build as many cruisers as you can or overwhelm them with minis like corvettes or a good mix?

[Affixiation]

Most people will min/max and resort to cruiser spam later in the game. I prefer having a mix of ships just because I enjoy the idea of mixed fleets. Having an equal amount of gunships, corvettes with a lesser amount of frigates, destroyers and a few cruisers led by a battleship, carrier, or dreadnaught.

[Plaguerat]

The smaller ships are nice for sitting on a guardpost to get the fleet strength up to win auto resolve battles. But if you are present they die instantly for some reason so i'd say the fleet following you should be cruiser+. This game needs a better accuracy system to give the smaller ships an edge, i know it exists in the game in some fashion becuase you can get a boost to accuracy on some enhancements but it is not felt at all. It would be a cool mechanic if a dred had a hard time dealing with a swarm of small ships and forced you into thinking about your fleet comp

[MaGicBush]

Originally posted by Anyport:

The smaller ships are nice for sitting on a guardpost to get the fleet strength up to win auto resolve battles. But if you are present they die instantly for some reason so i'd say the fleet following you should be cruiser+. This game needs a better accuracy system to give the smaller ships an edge, i know it exists in the game in some fashion becuase you can get a boost to accuracy on some enhancements but it is not felt at all. It would be a cool mechanic if a dred had a hard time dealing with a swarm of small ships and forced you into thinking about your fleet comp

This would be great. It seems how it is now smaller ships are pointless later in the game.

[ponsemen_bg]

True..the smaler ships on swarms make some remarkable dmg ..(every one has Heavy weapon so imagine 40-50 gunships or frigates at one target) but later game are completly pointles since you will always lose much of them and that is "resourse" that you have to care(exept if they are not gratis)
So geting good composition of above Cruiser ship is most resonable for me!

Also no mather what graphic card you had guys keep in mind that more than 50k fleet composed from small ships and against double the number enemy...i think you know what will hapend!