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Bomber spam

how do you stop those bomber spams

from Sins Forums

i recently played a game agianst a player that would have lost had he played conventionally. i laucnhed my assault on his empire knowing he had around 25 carriers.no big deal when you have 20 flak frigs and 12 advent carreirs with figheters and bombers. so his fleet shows up after a minute and he has about 50 bobmers squads(hes tec). he blows up both my caps in less than a minute and wipes out 75% of my fleet. so i retreat and have a good eco so i rebuild my fleet and and start chasing his fleet of 45 carreirs,60 javels and 2 marzas. i had 26 carriers and 3 new caps 2 of them cap carriers with the fighter repulsion deal and he wears down my fleet and destroy everything except 20 carriers. then i quit. any help to counter this strategy

 Apparantly, everyone assumes i had no escort fleet. just to clear that up, i had over 70 escort ships of flak,lrm,lf,hc,and other cursiers. also about the fighters, yes i kno they are faster but due to the posiotin of fleets his bombers got 2 passes before fighters could do their damge.

 

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Reply #26 from Sins Forums Top

the problem was that he was ahead of me and i coulndt pull back before he jumped away doing more hit and runs

 

Reply #27 from Sins Forums Top

Also, PJIs are really helpful for beating carriers (no matter what their payload).

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Reply #28 from Sins Forums Top

the problem was that he was ahead of me and i coulndt pull back before he jumped away doing more hit and runs

Were you able to move deeper into his empire?  I can not really think of anything else then to deal with that.

Reply #29 from Stardock Forums Top

Were the two Mazras level 6?

 

Two missle barrages can almost total your carriers quickly.

Then add the Javelins cluster bombs area of effect, and boom there goes your fleet.

The bombers were just there to add quick capital ship kills, preventing barrage dissruption.

Great way to clear out facilities too.

 

Reply #30 from Stardock Forums Top

Oh yea. If they weren't level 6 before that battle... they are now ;<)

Reply #31 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Deceiver_0, reply 22
Sick 90 fighter squads on the bombers and the rest just park (hold position behavior) next to the javs and watch their health deplete like a slowmotion missile barrage.

You can tell fighter squadrons to hold position? That's frakking awesome. I've always hated watching them attack once and fly a mile in the other direction before they pull around for their second pass.

 

Reply #32 from Sins Forums Top

You can tell fighter squadrons to hold position? That's frakking awesome. I've always hated watching them attack once and fly a mile in the other direction before they pull around for their second pass.

You can do it, but that movement is what stops the flak ripping them apart in 5 seconds flat... So be careful if you do stop them!!!

Reply #33 from Sins Forums Top

You can tell fighter squadrons to hold position? That's frakking awesome

In order to get it to work right click the hold position behavior and them move them close to the enemies, dont click attack, or theyll start flying around again.