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[Lord Martin]

doesnt fighters have some 500~ men crew?
If so this have to be one of the bloodiest battles of mankind when you look at deaths/hour

Nah, 3 I think.

Edit: The first fighter design on the first page shows 8.

[Barbarossa II]

I hink fighters have about a dozen or so crewmembers.

[blue emu]

doesnt fighters have some 500~ men crew?
If so this have to be one of the bloodiest battles of mankind when you look at deaths/hour

Eight.

First salvo now 1.2 m-km from Bandit-1. No PD missiles yet. Even we would have intercepted it by now. They may have their remaining PD missiles set for "Point Blank Fire"... or they may be out of PD missiles entirely. In either case, we will have to run the gauntlet of their PD Beam weapons, then secure a hit on a target moving at more than 9600 km/s. These next few minutes will tell us whether this engagement is winnable.

[blue emu]

The salvo is closing at about 200,000 km per five-second turn. Now closed to about 800,000 range-to-target. Not a shot fired at it yet... what are the Prix waiting for? It will be arriving on target in another 20-to-25 seconds.

[Count Lake]

Humanity strikes back!

[calestos]

The salvo is closing at about 200,000 km per five-second turn. Now closed to about 800,000 range-to-target. Not a shot fired at it yet... what are the Prix waiting for? It will be arriving on target in another 20-to-25 seconds.

They don't have rockets, another explication is strange.

[blue emu]

How long do Fighters take to re-arm when aboard a Carrier? Mine are saying 36 minutes! Have I screwed up the reloading somehow?

EDIT: Missiles have only 1/3rd million km left to run. Still no PD fire, missile or Beam.

[trebor57]

What's the size of the launchers? Reduced size takes a lot longer to reload.

[blue emu]

What's the size of the launchers? Reduced size takes a lot longer to reload.

Even while onboard a carrier, not reloading from your own magazines? This was not what I expected...

[Nabobalis]

How long do Fighters take to re-arm when aboard a Carrier? Mine are saying 36 minutes! Have I screwed up the reloading somehow?

EDIT: Missiles have only 1/3rd million km left to run. Still no PD fire, missile or Beam.

You should not of used box launchers :P

[Iche_Bins]

What's the size of the launchers? Reduced size takes a lot longer to reload.

uh, what use would boxedlaunchers be then, if I had to scrap the shp after firering once

[blue emu]

Not long now...



... looks like a good time for me to go out for a cigarette...

[Lord Strange]

Being technologically superior puts you at a disadvantage
*drags ostentatiously on cigarette"

[Cromelex]

... looks like a good time for me to go out for a cigarette...

You're just EVIL!
Can't stand the wait!

[Lord Martin]

This will be interesting indeed!

[Nabobalis]

Not long now...



... looks like a good time for me to go out for a cigarette...

Lets hope they do some damage. I've lost a lot of good fighters today! How many does my carrier have left?

[trebor57]

uh, what use would boxedlaunchers be then, if I had to scrap the shp after firering once

Box launchers require 15x time of standard size launcher to reload compared to 25% size which is 100x the time to reload, box launchers can only reload from a hanger though.

[Stuckenschmidt]

This will be interesting indeed!

I`d like to disagree. This whole thing takes forever and is simply boring.

[Nabobalis]

uh, what use would boxedlaunchers be then, if I had to scrap the shp after firering once

Box launchers are tiny and I mean tiny, so you can really pack them on to a fighter for a lovely alpha attack but they take a long time to reload in a hanger. I use 25% size launchers which can be reloaded immediately in a hanger and back out for a second volley in no time.

[Nabobalis]

I`d like to disagree. This whole thing takes forever and is simply boring.

Yeah, that is my only problem, the time it takes to revolves a battle since the game goes into 5 second increments and will stay like that for a while.