4.85 Weapons

[Agmen of Eladesor]

The thing is - for the most part, we see the NPC's doing things correctly, and we as the PLAYERS aren't actually role-playing right. For example, how often do you actually see a single, unescorted NPC cruiser or battleship running around? That's the purpose of the escorts - to take out the attacking bombers and/or fighters, while the cap ship does its mission - which is destroy other cap ships.

To us, you spend a few days doing power trading, and you've got enough money to buy a cap ship. Cool, look at my big, shiny, expensive toy.

Put this into wet navy perspective - I've now got a big battleship that I'm going to sail over next to your island nation. My big ship has big guns for anti-ship or shore bombardment, medium guns for the same, some small stuff and maybe a couple of missile launchers for air defense. Which still don't do much when someone launches an air to sea missile that slams in below the waterline and sinks your new toy - because a single capital ship by itself has a nickname - target.

Now, you coordinate that same battleship with a couple of cruiser, maybe an escort carrier for combat air patrol, and 2 or 3 destroyers, and you've got an effective fighting force.

Granted, the era of battleships in wet navy combat is effectively over due to airplanes - maybe you can see the historical parallel?

Our big, shiny battleships and battlecruisers should NEVER be out there by themselves. There should always be at least one, and ideally several, smaller ships for escorts, including several fighters. That would be proper role play - if you're going to have your fleet out there, then HAVE a fleet out there.

In other words - quit griping about bombers taking out cap ships. They're doing exactly what they were intended to do. If you don't want to die, then bring along a few friends to cover you.

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.