Xenon station bashing

was 70 Tomahawks over-kill?
- Roguey

EDIT: I do have a question about the bombers. I havent used them mostly because I need to store quite a bit of missiles and jump fuel to get them where I need them to be. If I could get them to jump in via a carrier I could see them being much more useful, but perhaps it isnt that much of an issue. Maybe they dont use much jump fuel, or Tomahawks dont take up that much space? I would just like to have a bomber carrier to have a group of them for station bashing. As it is M7Ms work fine for that, so it isnt really needed, but I like the idea of the glass cannon bombers. I would actually like them to replace M7Ms as long as a carrier can bring them in and out of the battlefield (even if it was a specialized bomber class carrier, in fact I would prefer it that way)
- martimus

well they cant dock in a normal carrier but they can in the aran,but they dont use alot of fuel for jumps about the same as M6 so 10 energy cells per system and the auster hauler has 1250 cargo space i give it 691 energy cells and 80 tomahawk missiles + its 3 200 MJ sheilds and back turret they can kill alot with all that and then jump out.
- Rassyu

an M7M is better close range the M8 is more of a long range bomber,i myself like gun ships but having some bombers on hand is always good makes kill big stuff really fast like oh lets say a xenon shipyard
- Rassyu

M7M is better at any range, Flail missile range is 58.3km, Hammer torpedo range is 75.9km while the range for the Tomahawk is only 43.1km. Additionally, M7M has 16 missile tubes (most of them do anyway) to M8s 2 tubes and the hull value for Hammer is greater than that for Tomahawk which contributes to much more effective missile barrages vs capital ships for M7M. Having said that, it is more cost effective to use M8 against stations since (most) stations have no defences.
- Anticitizen1

When taking action screen shots, Y U NO DISABLE HUD?
- Seygantte

you misunderstod me M8 lack good deffensive stats and having them at close range is alot more risky than a M7M.
- Rassyu

If you have Kyoto M2+ you can dock 6 bombers with it and won't need to carry any energy on those bombers.
- Anticitizen1

Lol, 29 bombers + 1 Carrier and you should be able to lay waste to pretty much everything in several sectors!
- Kirlack

Well technically that carrier could be another Aran (with another 29 bombers)...
- Roguey

Unfortunately my chip complex was too effective and the Terrans like me now. I now only have the Xenon and ATF as enemies and neither of them put together much in the way of fleets.
- martimus

4) Bofu their docking ports. They really hate that stuff.
- PuppyOfWar

please do tell,how do you bofu one's docking port???rather curious on how you do this puppy .
- Rassyu

1) Kidnap a few daughters of high ranking officials and sell them to pirate bases as sex slaves.

2) Create your own laser light show with 50 laser towers set to 'Terran - enemy' in one of their sectors.

3) Engage in 'joint exercises' in which their military vessels serve as a proving ground for new marine training techniques.

4) Bofu their docking ports. They really hate that stuff.

5) Drop a load of spacefuel, surround with squash mines, advertise 'special sale free whiskey'.

6) Declare war on Luxembourg.

7) Send a Dolphin loaded with nuclear waste to burn up in their planet's atmosphere. For my taste, a TL is too expensive a piece of '---- you' to sacrifice for mere relations adjustments.
- PuppyOfWar