Drone and Anti-Drone Tactics?

[PvK]

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Originally posted by mac5732:
Ditto for Puke's questions, are the drones going to make larger msl/beam carrying ships obsolete?

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No. A missile-only ship would have no defense against drones, but that doesn't make them obsolete, and beam/PD ships in enough quantity seem to be able to handle drones on reasonable terms, or even cream them, depending on tech, design, and tactics, of course.

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... How about using the Drones thru wormholes to hit targets, any problems in this area?

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If you can see into the next system and the enemy can't see into your launching system, and the targets are in range of the warp point in one turn, a drone attack could be a deadly surprise, but this is of course true of ship attacks, too. Drones do have limited supplies and range, and can't change targets, so if you see a swarm closing in in time, you may be able to avoid them until they expire. I don't remember the exact results of dodging through multiple warp points and how they do/don't track in that case, but that's of course good to know (I forget).

PvK