HumanSpacer wrote:
Thanks for the help Igncom1 and Nasarog. I'll start designing ships focused on particular weapons as Igncom1 suggested.

Also, in the stage where you are about to engage your enemy and you get to pre-pick your cards, hover over the enemy ships and see what they are sporting. That might give you some help too. At least you'll have an idea who and what you're up against.

Thanks for the help Igncom1 and Nasarog. I'll start designing ships focused on particular weapons as Igncom1 suggested.

I stopped equipping my ships with additional engines. They cost too much and don't add all that much for me. So, my fleets are slower, but they get the job done. Beam weapons are the best because they have a better hit rate at long and short range than either of the other classes when out of their comfort zone. So, I tend to have ships with more beam damage than either missile or projectiles. My ships are also equipped to handle beams better with a little more give to missile, since I seldom get to the short range phase with enough enemy ships to do proper battle.



For cards, I started doing the bullseye card for the beams at long range because it counters the fighting retreat and it gives me a round of almost no return fire from the enemy. For the medium range, I tend to vary my cards, but for short I usually go with the repair card if my fleet didn't do so hot. It also matters what kind of hero they have and also what their empire wide bonuses are. I hope they nerf the heroes a bit as well as adjust how the resource monopoly works.

HumanSpacer wrote:
So you are suggesting for me to build a ship design that have only kinetic weapons, and another ship design that have only missiles, for example?

Indeed.



Personally I love to have all missile destroyers, beam battleships and kinetic dreads.

Igncom1 wrote:
Sounds like your weapons are being countered, if you have enough production them try and mass produce battleships with either lots or all weapons of a particular type, as they are more or less unstoppable.



This is fortunately being fixed in the upcoming expansions by preventing defences from always 100% or 0% countering weapons.

So you are suggesting for me to build a ship design that have only kinetic weapons, and another ship design that have only missiles, for example?

Igncom1 wrote:
Sounds like your weapons are being countered, if you have enough production them try and mass produce battleships with either lots or all weapons of a particular type, as they are more or less unstoppable.



This is fortunately being fixed in the upcoming expansions by preventing defences from always 100% or 0% countering weapons.

Yeah Omni tanks kind of the popularest ship design out there.

Nasarog wrote:
That's a tough one. I think more info is needed. What kind of heroes do you use? What kind of battle cards? Have you ever looked at the enemy fleet to try and figure out what they are fielding? Also look at the enemy race to see where they are stronger and you are weaker. Let's start with that.

Sometimes, I do not even use heroes. About the battle cards, I don't remember the name of them, but I usually use the "engineering" one the repair my fleets in-battle, and I also use the one that increases my kinetic weapons damage.

Sounds like your weapons are being countered, if you have enough production them try and mass produce battleships with either lots or all weapons of a particular type, as they are more or less unstoppable.



This is fortunately being fixed in the upcoming expansions by preventing defences from always 100% or 0% countering weapons.

That's a tough one. I think more info is needed. What kind of heroes do you use? What kind of battle cards? Have you ever looked at the enemy fleet to try and figure out what they are fielding? Also look at the enemy race to see where they are stronger and you are weaker. Let's start with that.