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Doesn't anyone have experience with raptors? What else are they good for?
I really just think that, if there was an 'approach' phase of a battle where you're trying to locate the enemy fleet, and you're playing more with trying to get a good look at the enemy, the raptors would have more of a use as scouts and could even have a decoy aspect where you could try and make it look like you had a ship or two running right at them when it's really just a buncha drones. The tradeoff being that the more raptor wings you take cuts down the slots you can fill with vipers. But, a mode like this would kinda be drawn out and better suited to slightly larger engagements, the map also would be larger to allow ships to be outta dradis range, which leads to retreating tactics, etc....
The sense I've always had was that the vipers were killing machines, you give em a target and they'll rip them to shreds... the raptors did everything else you needed small craft to do, recon, rescue, redirection, etc. I don't really get that impression from the game.
If hanger-capable ships had a support slot explicitly for craft other than Vipers alongside their standard Viper slots, I'd consider taking them.
But as it stands, I can take Raptors to enhance hack defence on my ships that very rarely get hacked. Alternatively I can take Vipers to take down enemy craft, harass capitals, and run anti-missile defence at all stages of the game early, mid, and late. I don't even take the craft that deploy chaff as early game Vipers excel at intercepting missiles if you position and order them correctly, and mid - late game Vipers and Flak can work in tandem to handle any missile threats.
I haven't tested this "full scale"; but I imagine if you had 4-8 raptor squadrons you could do some serious missle damage.
Is that a better choice than vipers? I don't know... but it's certainly exciting :)
Hmmm maybe I will try two or three Raptor squadrons with one of my Carrier Groups and see if they make a dent
It'd be fun to watch for ol' ♥♥♥♥♥ and giggles, but I seriously doubt it'd be a practical approach.