A single well-defended large ship can bring down many small ships which have little defense.ДЄ good stategy using this concept is to have fleets made of at least 3 large ships, each heavily armored. With a small ship, you either have to go with no defense, or choose between one of the three attack types to defend against. Using bigger ships also means that any individual ship can have multiple defense types (anti-beam, anti-railgun, and anti-missile). Further, there is just something cool about seeing a dreadnought fly up next to an enemy planet and proceed to decimate that planet's defenses. Further, a combination of big and little ships can mean that the big ship survives, gains experience, and also benefits from having the extra 'oomph' that smaller ships added into a fleet can provide. Bigger ships provide flexibility, and by boosting the higher hit points, can suck up a lot of damage, making them more likely to survive battles and accumulate experience, which greatly affects ship performance. This does not mean, however, that smaller is better. Unless you outrange them massivly smalls don't win against larger without huge numbers on their side and still lose alot anyway. Here's an example the four small ships fire on one medium 4 8 12 16 damage the ship still has 4 hp left the two medium ships fire at two small doing 6 damage each killing both the two remaning small ships fire on one each kill the hurt medium and doing 4 damage to the second that then fires killing the small that killed it's friend the last small fires doing 4 more and droping it down to 12 hp still three attacks from death when the dies from another shot from the medium. But 4 x4 is 16 not 20 leaving one of the medium ships alive then two little die before the one medium does then the last medium mops up the two little ships only taking stratch damage. Add in to this the fact that you can continually produce smaller ships at a faster rate than an equally situated opponent can produce bigger ships, and you can see how small ships can win the day. Still, with three little ships remaining, the attack value is still twice what the remaining big ship can manage. The big ship returns fire, and maybe manages to kill one of the little ships. Granted, the algorithm is not that simple, but you get the idea. When the battle commences, the four little ships take out one of the big ships fairly quickly (4 attack x 4 ships). 4 fighters with an attack value of 4 beam and 6 hit points are in a group against 2 medium sized ships with 6 beam attack and 20 hit points. Because Gal Civ adds all of a given fleet's ship's attack values together, this can mean that a bunch of small ships can take down a slightly smaller fleet of large ships.

Another advantage of smaller ships is that you can put more of them into any one fleet. However, the cost of producing these smaller ships can mean that a player can produce them much faster than a frigate. Smaller ships get fewer hit points, and can generally fit smaller numbers of weapons, armors and specialized modules. The differences depend on the strategy you most prefer. The second is to build fewer, larger ships. The first, is to go small, but build in high quantity. There are two schools of thought on shipbuilding. The quick and dirty answer is that it depends. 9 Ship design with new combat rules of Dark Avatar.7 Armor Points - Perfect Squares - Even Distribution.

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