In my experience, the 'vs fighters and vs seeking weapons' part of his table shouldn't even be there. I have found railgun bombers to be fine, but I do suspect that the flat damage reduction of armor makes them struggle a bit, especially as quite a bit of their damage is applied to the armor before shields drop, which means you are competing with enemy self repair very early in a fight. I know that blaster bombers run out of energy very quickly. This obliterates the dps advantage of laser cannons, let alone rail guns. Meaning your hit chance should be 35-40%, well over double the damage of laser cannons. In contrast, the base accuracy at 270 range for the particle beam is like 90-95%. Meaning I would only expect a 15% hit chance even in a fair duel, and in my experience, it is not uncommon to be fighting more advanced fighters than your own. Fighter Laser cannons only have a 69% hit chance at 270(maximum) range. tech 1 fighters, dueling each other, have a -55% hit chance based on hull, so if you are using innaccurate guns, I would expect to struggle. I SUSPECT, but don't know, that these are missiles that rolled to hit but didn't actually make contact, and I have heard others claim that movement speeds do affect accuracy).įor the same reason, I also am at this point, going beams on fighters, simply because they can actually hit other fighters and bombers with them, which I feel the other weapons either cannot do, or in the case of missiles, do very little damage when used in this role. AND it is the only hit scan weapon, meaning you have no worries about fast moving objects preventing your point defenses from making contact (I have noticed in concussion missile vs concussion missile duels, the concussion missiles often miss each other and loop back around but never catch up. It is accurate enough to actually hit what you aim at, which the blasters and cannons cannot do. It has very high dps to mass ratio, which the missiles sadly lack. It's got very decent range, allowing your fleet to support each other. In contrast, the true winner is clearly, to my mind, the beam. when your chance to hit is 85%, the enemy having 72% countermeasures is a big deal (this is the lowest possible value for a strike craft, being the tech 1 bomber (12%) with a basic cockpit (60%). they can hit bombers, but even then, not amazingly well before you get targeting. In my experience, 2 of the systems just cannot reliably kill fighters. I suspect this may be wrong, but I just don't know how weapon targeting works, given it's the one stat that does not appear in the matrix games components.xml explanation document. Accurate: 125% Missile: 125% Cannon: 55%.ĭislcaimer: I got these numbers by adding the weapon targeting to the intercept targeting values, which is why the missiles look no more accurate than the beam. ( I think it's silly to use max range, as fighters will often not actually enter it) Here's the starting point defense hit chances at say, 500 range. The reason for this is simple: the lowest level fighter has more than 90% countermeasures. I think this guide is really cool, but I have some disagreements on it.įirst of all, the point defense commentary: I feel the only viable point defense is the beam weapons. Linked in the OP is his playthrough on extreme where he refers to the guide and has edited in relevant pages to help make clearer the topic he is covering. Updated to V2.2 New Combat/weapons comparison section/chart (to matchnew video), New Research Bonus category chart, general improvements. by planet type AND a new PD Weapon comparison chart. Updated to V2.1 New Planet Chart showing resources, bonuses, etc. planet type colonization modifierschart was an old version by mistake. Updated to V1.9 Corrected a mistake (thanks Erik) and added 3 new coolcharts (troop types/stats, race v assimilation, and race v planet typecolonization modifiers) Updated to V1.8 Added 2 new charts, better explanation about tactics, and more typos squashed. Updated to V1.7 Added a section on Invasions. Updated to V1.6 Much improved Economy flow chart (completely redone), tons of typos fixed. Updated to V1.4 (mostly typos, fixed a page reference, and I added corruption to the economy chart) Scott2933, who posts on the Matrix Forums has an excellent guide for beginners with some deep diving to help more experienced DW:2 playersit's available on the Matrix forum.

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