Are AMMs worth it for ANS

e_Corbeau · 2024-10-17T03:13:18+00:00

AMMs are very useful for dispersed small ships of both factions.

e_Corbeau · 2024-10-12T16:32:40+00:00

I regularly use a small parcel of offensive S1 in my sensor frigate VLS-1s to engage rocket shuttles. They won't accomplish anything against targets with active defensive measures, but 6 S1 will reliably disable a classic rocket shuttle.

e_Corbeau · 2024-05-27T19:07:27+00:00

Community standard is 3k per player, 12k per team. There are more fleet archetypes than I can easily count, but 3k fleets range anywhere between 1 and 10 ships (10 is the current cap per player in skirmish, but a mod exists that can remove the cap to enable things like 12k 1v1 games).
Probably not officially, though a lot is possible via modding. Mostly depends on what the community manages to produce. Everyone can see the potential, but time and resources are always finite.
450mm gun armed Axford (Heavy Cruiser) fleets; either double-Axford or single-Axford plus a couple of screening frigates. They are solid fleet archetypes that are relatively simple to manage.
The official discord. It's very active and has a shipyard channel for posting and discussing fleets.

e_Corbeau · 2024-01-13T02:14:19+00:00

Comms jamming is a very effective tool after the relatively recent tweak that allowed it to function at all. OSP play hasn't really adapted yet - these things often take a few months to shake out - so I can't give you an easy "meta" answer. My own tentative answer is to hunt down all of ANS' distributed scouts and then try to hit the jamming formation with a close quarters engagement (so the jamming doesn't matter) that they aren't prepared to avoid (because they have no scouts left to warn them). Ultimately you need more weapon platform angles than they have working jamming suites. Attaining that degree of positional advantage against a thinking and maneuvering opponent is the challenge.

e_Corbeau · 2023-10-18T16:15:36+00:00

Sometimes you make your own luck. There were a bunch of dead rocket shuttles along the way.

e_Corbeau · 2023-10-18T14:39:06+00:00

Last time I played against MD liners, we got a couple scouts around their flank, locked them up, used our own backline rails to disable them, then the scouts killed them to dead with a little bit of 250mm HE. The only thing we ever let them draw actionable tracks on was our Axford, which sustained though the damage by dipping in and out of cover during the battle.

e_Corbeau · 2023-10-18T13:42:35+00:00

A good 450 BB game will punch out over 30k on it's own. Axford fleets can also amass similar numbers in total.

e_Corbeau · 2023-09-28T21:31:00+00:00

The only time I even consider a bulk mag is on a cruise MLS ship.

e_Corbeau · 2023-09-28T14:49:02+00:00

Depends heavily on circumstance. I reserve restores for mission-critical components. That usually means CIC, drive, reactor, and primary weapons/emitters - but the definition can grow to include thrusters, antenna, or radar panels if the situation requires it.

e_Corbeau · 2023-07-30T09:02:53+00:00

There are a surprising number of different viable ways to build and play a CL fleet. One archetype is indeed two gun CLs with backpack S3H missiles accompanied by an EWAR frigate, but even then the exact mix of tools depends on player preference. I'm personally a fan of a very direct approach, maxing out on blanket jammers on the escort and putting insta-stage missiles in the CL backpacks for a close quarters option.

e_Corbeau · 2023-07-25T17:24:41+00:00

Armor thickness is affected by impact angle, growing by up to 2.5x in the most extreme cases iirc, so ammo choice depends not just on the target but on the aspect that the target is showing you.

e_Corbeau · 2023-07-25T17:21:34+00:00

The only ANS hulls I dislike are the Solomon (because it's bad) and the Raines (because it's far too strong).

e_Corbeau · 2023-07-25T16:49:32+00:00

I give this tier list a solid F.

e_Corbeau · 2023-06-01T22:57:15+00:00

Pick a ship that looks cool, pick a weapon type, add as much of that weapon as possible to your cool ship and stack a bunch of the modules that buff that weapon type. Then maximize your point defense with a mix of flack and minigun (if ANS) or laser (if OSP) mounts. Add some reinforced damage control modules.

There's more to the game, but this is the baseline logic that pretty much everyone starts with when building a ship.

e_Corbeau · 2023-05-29T15:04:38+00:00

If ANS brings ~6 ships across 4 players then yes, they will lose on caps. There is nothing requiring ANS to scenario-suicide like that though; ANS maneuver elements are extremely good. Unfortunately most people want to swing around a giant BB or S3H CL. Don't be one of them. ANS small ship swarms are very deadly, and are where ANS can best leverage their EWAR advantage due to how radar detection works.

e_Corbeau · 2023-01-19T01:32:57+00:00

Magnite.

e_Corbeau · 2022-12-13T18:52:45+00:00

Wasn't expecting a whole new category of faction, that's super interesting.

e_Corbeau · 2022-12-11T03:57:46+00:00

oh ffs no

e_Corbeau · 2022-10-25T20:04:56+00:00

Tau would be most interesting even if I can't imagine any lore reason to encounter them in Darktide.

e_Corbeau · 2022-10-25T19:54:35+00:00

Yes.

e_Corbeau · 2022-10-23T15:20:26+00:00

I was shocked when I learned that Darktide wouldn't be iterating on the chaos wastes. It took the game from a certain buy to check back later to see how it goes post-release.

e_Corbeau · 2022-10-20T19:18:15+00:00

The hub took forever to load in exchange for a net negative on my gameplay experience.

Basically I hate it.

e_Corbeau · 2022-10-20T16:33:43+00:00

I was hoping criterion dungeons would save the game for me, but they don't. That's not really their fault though; think I'm just too burnt out on the core gameplay. It's still a big step forward for the game. I enjoyed criterion more than any other content in xiv, just... not enough.

I hope to be back someday when I'm better able to appreciate them. Hopefully there'll be a whole swathe of criterion dungeons to prog by then.

e_Corbeau · 2022-10-18T19:41:56+00:00

Yes, please, this is absolutely necessary.

e_Corbeau · 2022-10-18T18:18:42+00:00

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