Holo-fields and Grav-Shields are on the front page. Point Defense batteries are 60/180 vehicle-scale weapons on an Escort/Capital ship, and Close in Weapon Batteries are 10/16 Superheavy-scale weapons on an Escort/Capital ship.
Thank you, that helps a lot. It also makes me realize something about out Brig design. The Fatesever point defense weapon costs 10,800 EP (108 NEP if I understand it correctly), twice the cost of the Brigs main cannon.
Counterpoint is that those are two very different kind of point defenses.
If we pick some kind of dual purpose weapon, a point defense system does not need to be compromising.
Due to population restrictions, and getting Slaaneshed after death, fighters always should be the last resort. The same reason medium to heavy power armor should be a preferred defense system for infantry.
True, but given the choice between the two the Fusion Mortars would be the far more effective one. The las weapons have to directly impact their targets and they have to actually hit something important inside of the target as well. The Fusion Mortars only have to be near the target to damage and the widespread nature of plasma means more areas of the target is hit. When Orks fly around on bombers that shouldn't even work in the first place I would prefer to go with overkill.
Sweepers were not something I was considering but they might work very well at crushing strike craft and preemptively detonating torpedoes if multiple are fired at a single target.
As long as it's a dual purpose weapon we want on our Brigs as part of their overall strategy/role and not something we are picking because it can be used to deal with fighter craft that happens to have other combat applications.
Hmm. I suppose we could make an anti fighter torpedo boat sloop.
If we're going to be using las point defense on anything, we really want to get Hellgun research done and then use hellgun PD instead. PD uses vehicle-scale weapons and the multi-lasers that hellgun research enables are basically vehicle-scale las that fires much, much faster. That's exactly what point defense needs.
Sweepers are the "tractor beam" gun. They probably won't do much to destroy fighters or munitions on their own - but a bomb or rocket that's not coming in your direction anymore might as well be destroyed, and a fighter that's pinned in place is an easy target for other weapon systems.
Lascannons are anti-tank while Multilasers are more anti-APC.
Nay, look at the weapon description.
Imagine a bomber going multiple times the speed of sound only to slam into a wall of wet concrete. It does not matter if the force applied is not that great, the speed in which the strike craft is going will destroy itself upon contact with the Sweeper beam.
Hellguns don't scale up to vehicle sizes. The largest Hellgun option available are Multi-lasers and those aren't Vehicle scale, they're Heavy scale. It's also rather telling that Zahr-Tann who we got the Hellgun tech from uses Las-cannons for their ships and strikecraft instead of Multi-Lasers.
I'd say our best bet for PD is probably Suncannons. They are direct fire vehicle grade weapons that cost less than Plasma Mortars.
As an example of other factions using Plasma weapons for PD/CIWB, our ally Quilan uses superheavy multibarrel Plasma repeaters for their CIWB.Suncannon said:
Fafnir Class Dragonship said:
Dragonrage Plasma Repeater said:
I was under the impression that our Fusion Mortars have the same benefits as our Suncannons do. If they do not then Suncannons are by far our best option here.
They probably do since we picked low cost and range as the benefits for our Plasma weapons in general but I'm skeptical of Plasma Mortars being as effective as Suncannons in a direct fire role since their main gimmick is being capable of indirect fire and the vehicle scale ones only cost 2EP more than a vehicle scale Suncannon.
I think that's just an unlucky metaphor.
The thing is I dont intend for the Fusion Mortars to be direct fire, I want them to act as flak. This way a shot does not have to directly hit a target to damage it, it just has to be nearby.
It states that Fusion Mortars can do direct fire as well, so it probably depends on whether we prefer AoE or single target damage.
Huh, I could have sworn the Fusion Mortars mentioned controlled detonation option, but the text does not mention anything. Hmmm, I will have to ask Mechanis once the next ship design vote comes around.
