cruiser saboteur

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cruiser saboteur (class 1 ship)


similar to the sabotage fighter, this class 1 ship, contsructed with a high density hull alloy, has a long range pulse cannon which does 1 damage to one class 3 ship. however, due to the time taken for the pulse canon to power up it is almost redundant against all other classes.


attack/life: 0/3
manpower: 3

researchtime: 1 d
buildingtime: 12 h


kazuuula-technology
needed research:
improved targeting

battle details:fights
(battle engine syntax: f)
modifies AP/LP by 0/-1 of 1 ship of any ship-type in the enemy fleet in class 3
(battle engine syntax: mod,enemy,1,3,all,+,0,-1)
modifies AP/LP by -1/0 of 1 ship of any ship-type in your own fleet in class 1
(battle engine syntax: mod,self,1,1,all,+,-1,0)

[CestLoco]

I created the above ship.

I am sure at some point someone wanted to build an anti swank class 1 ship but it’s not in the game anywhere for kazzulus/mycilliods so I though I’d build a new one. Humans and nanites’ already have hammer-bounty hunter combo and e-rays have the evaporator.

What I wanted originally for this ship was 0AP/2LP and does 1 damage to cls 3 at a cost of 2mp...which I still think is the better option. But mp calculator put this to 3 mp. So I upped the LP to 3 and made it reduce fire power of another ship by 1.

This means at a cost of 300 mp, i.e. 100 saboteurs, 1 cls 3 is destroyed. However this also gives you high shielding like the mosquito.

Like me I think you all may say that the mp usage is still too high. If so one variant could be to have 2 pulses per ship so 2 different class 3 ships are damaged 1 point each.

Other possibilty is that it not only decreases one of your own ships AP by one but also one of the enemy's ships as well. But this may be too much tech for one ship to handle.

[Field Marshal]

This would be good swank fodder. I wouldprefer to build cruisers to take out a swank and the mosquito and bulk fighter are better protection than this.
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[T2]

If a few of these ships were embedded in a reg fighter c1 fleet, the enemy cruiser could not be reconstructed but yours could.

It wouldn't take too many in a fleet with 3 lp to do some damage if you got lucky with the order.
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In my opinion that is the best use of this ship.- Making a kill by some other heavy-hitter ship non-reconstructable.

Indifferent to it's addition. It's balanced I think. Peng 's would also smoke 'em pretty hard

Actually, re reading it's description, looks like something definitely worth trying.
Let me look again when I can give more thought but I voted yes !

[CestLoco]

[T2]

So does this mean the ship, when it fires, does 1 damage to an enemy c3 ship and jams 1 ship in the class it's fighting in BOTH fleets (yours & opponents)
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Alternate Translation > Regardless of the sub-battle, this ship does 1 damage to enemy C3 and jams 1 ship in each fleet in the class it fights.
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[CestLoco]

[T2]

I think this ship is worth a try at a pre-warp. You are right in your statement about no Myc C1 ships being able to combat C3 ships except the Peng and against a Swank they don't work too well .

[tyco]

Finally some came up witha Anti-Swank for Myc lloid

[T2]

[Sparks]

??simulator what simulator???
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[T2]

Yes...there is a battle simulator. Really neat place to sharpen your skills.
"your surface team found a secret landings site. further investigations revealed that there is a full scale battle simulator inside it. your scientists found no marks left by the aliens who build it, but the simulator is fully operational.
park your fleet here to enter the simulator and find out about new tactics for your next battles."


coordinates: 470/497/46

( Sorry about going off topic)

[Shan]

BUMP

Just bumping this up because it is relevant for a comment made in the 'Explain this battle report..' thread where Davlan says:

[Rubens]

But as we told you there, we have already the cerberus fighter which is better than this ship, and the raze is chosen to keep the balance, so another similar ship but in another raze wont be usefull i think.