I just recceived the Cleaver Beam weapon, which costs 53 production, 1 Antimatter and 16 DPS at all ranges. Does it need some rebalancing after the recent patches, because the basic phased beam for 56 production and no strategic resource already does 19 DPS. The corresponding Beam weapon that needs Antimatter does 30 DPS.

The only difference I see is the 8 Crew Memebers killer per Hit. Is that actually valuable?

The less crew the more vulnerable are ships, plus you are denying them their ability to siege effectively if you loose the battle.

Is this more valuable than actual damage ? I would say no, or maybe on specifcly designed cheap glass canon corvettes.

if you use that weapon misted whit bombarding pods... thats devasting. O_O

Wow thanks for the answer! Haven't really thought about it, but sounds like a good strategy. Will try it out!