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Post by alexey on Feb 9, 2017 9:36:15 GMT
Hello, everyone.
I'am sure, this topic has aleready been discussed here, so you can just point me to the right thread.
I do not know how to deal with enemy drone swarms reliably.
I've tried flak missled with little effect (usually, they fail to take out any of them).
I've tried to use nuclear missiles with moderate success (usually, 10 missiles can disable 1 - 3 drones).
Laser ships are good, but "expensive" (mass, cost).
Projectile weapons are outright bad as they engage drones well after they start shooting me themselves.
So, what's your approach?
P.S. Everything I talk about is stock. I haven't designed anything yet.
P.P.S. I've discovered "gamey" method - send one drone against whole swarm and let them burn out their delta-v.
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Post by samchiu2000 on Feb 9, 2017 10:29:25 GMT
Use laser to destroy their gun.
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Post by bdcarrillo on Feb 9, 2017 12:12:51 GMT
10 stock nukes ought to kill more than a couple stock drones. Are you intercepting them well before the tactical engagement starts?
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Post by alexey on Feb 9, 2017 12:54:02 GMT
10 stock nukes ought to kill more than a couple stock drones. Are you intercepting them well before the tactical engagement starts? Yes, I send my missles ahead of my fleet to intercept drones. Problem is that my missiles tend to focus on couple of drones and disable them, while other drones seem to leave unscratched. For example, I sent 10 missiles against 10 drones. I would expect each missile to attack one particular drone. In fact, missiles swarm and attack two or three drones. |
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Post by lieste on Feb 9, 2017 12:55:20 GMT
I use a railgun to deal with short ranged drones - the 'target' is a 2.06m^2 drone with a 7km/s railgun, but it obviously deals with all the stock threats even more easily.
They are supported and augmented by short ranged lasers, and the target is the radiators. Gunkills are not ideal as the dronehusk changes to a KKV and attempts to ram the target. Not hard to dodge, but dodging reduces the accuracy (and sometimes availability) of ongoing fires.
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Post by apophys on Feb 9, 2017 13:26:49 GMT
alexey - I recommend you play around with custom parts. It makes a big difference to the meta. Check the standards thread for some; ask around for anything else you need. Lasers are the traditional counter to kinetic drones in the current game - melting the drone weapon before it gets to fire. (The cost of stock lasers and reactors is hugely inflated.) Laser drones, however, are fairly difficult to counter. You can try small cheap missiles, or a high-yield armored nuke (to wipe the whole drone swarm at once). Expect some missile losses in transit and try to intercept at high speed; 1000 km is a long way to be getting shot at.
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Post by Enderminion on Feb 9, 2017 15:53:17 GMT
It does not take muck armour to armour a missile aganist low yield laser fire, my new missile held out aganist 9 600Mw lasers for the duration of the attack run, and what can be loaded on resonable drones can't have that much energy. you can't armour drones as well as missiles because the drones have weapons on the front
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Post by deltav on Feb 13, 2017 3:54:50 GMT
10 stock nukes ought to kill more than a couple stock drones. Are you intercepting them well before the tactical engagement starts? Yes, I send my missles ahead of my fleet to intercept drones. Problem is that my missiles tend to focus on couple of drones and disable them, while other drones seem to leave unscratched. For example, I sent 10 missiles against 10 drones. I would expect each missile to attack one particular drone. In fact, missiles swarm and attack two or three drones. I've tried sending only 5 or less missiles at a time against swarms. I'll launch 3 missiles or so, send them out, press a minute, send out 3 more and so on. That way you get max kills for min lost. As far as I can see, the only way to kill drones is with 1.lasers 2.other drones 3.missiles. |
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Post by The Astronomer on Feb 13, 2017 4:32:31 GMT
It's easy. Drones can be shut off by long-range lasers. Not even missiles survive my railguns, so drones' nothing.
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Post by bdcarrillo on Feb 13, 2017 4:40:27 GMT
If we had cluster munitions, drone formations would be trivial to engage with a couple missiles.
Then we'll put lasers on drones to shoot down those interceptor missiles...
Hmm, we do often come back to lasers being a great solution.
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