Drones, assault shuttles, battleriders - how do they work?

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Title says it all. I can build drone carriers and AS carriers, but neither seems to be capable of launching ships in combat. Anyone done this?

I have not tried battleriders yet, but I can at least figure out how to load battleriders onto a boat (use the BR management key).
 

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Drones, as far as I can tell, seem to be completely borked. I can find no way of loading designs onto drone carriers.

Kinda cripples Morrigi tactics, that :-/
 

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TBH I don't think anyone ever used assault shuttles in SOTS prime - too much hassle for too little damage to the planet - so I'm not expecting to hear much there...
 

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I stand corrected :) I never used them though, by the time I could put a fleet in orbit that could get close enough to the planet to do a shuttle run, I could glass the planet anyway.
 

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The assault shuttles were particularly useful early game, when the starting weapons rather sucked at glassing planets.

I seem to recall drones being broken in multiple ways? Though drones are now used mainly for recon, as opposed to actual combat. They could stand a chance against a battlerider or two, but probably not be the most effective solution ;)

Battleriders can be placed on battlerider carriers in their management screen (not sure if its working or not, unfortunate to say :( )
 

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The launch command to launch BR don't work.

AS are great no matter what, in Multi just bring some shielded AS carrier Cruisers and let them glass the planet, Rines and repeat.

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