Enerael
We Shall Wake to Sanity
Our navy is I believe characteristic by our focus on these things:
- Strike craft as primary damage dealers, specifically extremely high quality ones rather than expendable swarms.
- Heavy metal. We are and will remain absurdly top heavy due to our navigation method. Heavy ships excel in durability and shorter ranged combat where low speed and high durability shines. This also means we are outnumbered and shooting lighter ships against peer enemies.
- Ship quality/technology. DP in other words. This is not as simple as it seems, as more DP is not a linear increase in ship quality but so long as there are enough Equips multiplicative. It allows for feats of multiplier stacking like boosting missile launchers twelve time over. Synergizes a lot with heavy hull for even more DP, and allows those heavy hulls to match smaller ones for firepower per cost, while also having the much higher durability of larger hulls for basically free. This runs into limits of weapon stacking sometimes mind where larger versions of weapons are not as efficient (1 DP discount) or practical (larger hull size required)
Now lets look at the proposed doctrines.
Length/Width being cheaper equals +1 DP.
I like the focus on our heavies, it plays to our strengths, but that it starts with Heavy Cruiser makes it tricky. We still have most of our combat power in light cruisers, heavy ones are flagships and heavy hitters not our main battleline. But perhaps we will want to change this? With the N'Nonmiton Squadron equip and with Libra running hard into Too Many Weapons problem a Heavy Cruiser carrier to replace it seems like an excellent idea... if so, this could be a very powerful doctrine if resulting is hillariously top heavy SBGs (and with how top heavy they are not thats saying something).
We are already, with the exception of torpedoes, monofocusing our ships weapon types. Wait, are torpedoes under Missile Weapon Type?
Mounting step heavier weapons at effectively double the cost does not seem useful, especially for our already massively top heavy navy. We want to shoot down not up.
Effective -2 DP to all ships. Our warships won't care, but noncombat ones or the likes of Andromeda would.
This could be very powerful if well exploited. Monofocused heavy cruisers mounting the biggest weapons they can would be complete monsters and smaller warships would get a boost also. The -2 DP cost to noncombatants would be annoying though.
Also we have strike craft for long ranged firepower.
Reducing missile equip cost by 1 DP equals +2-3 DP. So far.
Reducing Weapon Cramming penalties is not unimportant, we were already running into that problem with our very high DP budgets. Sadly without also having a missile launcher cost discount, or raising our DP budget even more, we can't exploit it much. If we had -1 DP cost for missile launchers though... that would be something to behold.
Meh, no reason for ships of this doctrine to be mounting heavier missiles than they should. We are top heavy, we shoot down. Or straight. But not up.
Overall, without a missile launcher discount this is meh at this time. With it, it would be wonderful.
Doesn't outright boost any of our strengths though.
- Strike craft as primary damage dealers, specifically extremely high quality ones rather than expendable swarms.
- Heavy metal. We are and will remain absurdly top heavy due to our navigation method. Heavy ships excel in durability and shorter ranged combat where low speed and high durability shines. This also means we are outnumbered and shooting lighter ships against peer enemies.
- Ship quality/technology. DP in other words. This is not as simple as it seems, as more DP is not a linear increase in ship quality but so long as there are enough Equips multiplicative. It allows for feats of multiplier stacking like boosting missile launchers twelve time over. Synergizes a lot with heavy hull for even more DP, and allows those heavy hulls to match smaller ones for firepower per cost, while also having the much higher durability of larger hulls for basically free. This runs into limits of weapon stacking sometimes mind where larger versions of weapons are not as efficient (1 DP discount) or practical (larger hull size required)
Now lets look at the proposed doctrines.
Good. All of them also keep the +Speed and +Shields.
I would like more info on what is high or low tech. Other than that, only Armor equips are something we would like sometimes and we can do without just fine I suspect, other ways to raise durability. Macrocanons we can do without, rotary ones are high tech.
Length/Width being cheaper equals +1 DP.
I like the focus on our heavies, it plays to our strengths, but that it starts with Heavy Cruiser makes it tricky. We still have most of our combat power in light cruisers, heavy ones are flagships and heavy hitters not our main battleline. But perhaps we will want to change this? With the N'Nonmiton Squadron equip and with Libra running hard into Too Many Weapons problem a Heavy Cruiser carrier to replace it seems like an excellent idea... if so, this could be a very powerful doctrine if resulting is hillariously top heavy SBGs (and with how top heavy they are not thats saying something).
This could result in some utterly monstrous heavy cruisers. Not much lighter that that though, as we are already running into the too many weapons problem there, though it would save lighter ships a bunch of DPs.
We are already, with the exception of torpedoes, monofocusing our ships weapon types. Wait, are torpedoes under Missile Weapon Type?
Mounting step heavier weapons at effectively double the cost does not seem useful, especially for our already massively top heavy navy. We want to shoot down not up.
Effective -2 DP to all ships. Our warships won't care, but noncombat ones or the likes of Andromeda would.
This could be very powerful if well exploited. Monofocused heavy cruisers mounting the biggest weapons they can would be complete monsters and smaller warships would get a boost also. The -2 DP cost to noncombatants would be annoying though.
Trades the endurance part discount to remove the lance (and other high tech) cost increase. Simple, but effective.
This one is a bad fit for us. With our big ship focus we can not outspeed the most certainly lighter enemies, and we benefit a great deal from length/width increasing the number of weapons and equips a ship can have without problems.
Also we have strike craft for long ranged firepower.
The Macross Missile Massacre doctrine.
Reducing missile equip cost by 1 DP equals +2-3 DP. So far.
Reducing Weapon Cramming penalties is not unimportant, we were already running into that problem with our very high DP budgets. Sadly without also having a missile launcher cost discount, or raising our DP budget even more, we can't exploit it much. If we had -1 DP cost for missile launchers though... that would be something to behold.
Meh, no reason for ships of this doctrine to be mounting heavier missiles than they should. We are top heavy, we shoot down. Or straight. But not up.
Overall, without a missile launcher discount this is meh at this time. With it, it would be wonderful.
No cost penalties, which is nice, at the cost of refitting everything every 15 turns. Not sure if thats bad, neutral, or even good?
Doesn't outright boost any of our strengths though.
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