RE: My thoughts on Fighters

DOC Agren wrote:

>In theory the additional shields that Capitals field should make them 
>harder to kill than an equivalent massed Merchant.

Since a capital ship usually has both screens and 2-3 times as many
damage 
boxes as an equivalent-massed merchant ship, plus at least somewhat
better 
anti-fighter armament, it usually *is* harder to kill than the merchant.

>The problem is that shields are limited to level 2 and there is
currently 
>no real reason to take
>more than 2 (i.e. back-up generators) since it is cost and mass 
>prohibitive, so Capital ship defense plateaus off while fighters can
just 
>keep stacking it on.

Since screens protect against all non-KV/non-Torp fighters that attack
the 
ship in a single turn, the protection given by the screens increases in 
direct proportion to the number of such fighters that attack the ship.

Regards,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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