Apollo

[Garthim]

Which one have EA Crusade players had more success with:

Apollo Bombardment Cruiser

or

Apollo Strike Cruiser

 

[Garthim]

I think this post has been misunderstood. I am tinkering with EA Crusade

and really like the strike cruiser variant, but have redeeming hopes for

the bombardment cruiser and curious to see what other EA prefer using.

 

[Joe_Dracos]

I've had success with both

 

[dag'karlove]

They Both work equally well. It Just depends on what you want them for.

 

[GhostRecon]

I've found the Bombardment Cruiser far superior and near indispensable. Those standard ship missiles, with their SAP, P traits mean they dole out mountains of crits per salvo! And with SAP, even hull 6 ships will feel the hurt. Changing those out for Flash Missiles reduces your penetration (Only AP vice SAP) but the addition of DD just makes things all the more painful.

The Strike Cruiser seems, in theory, good; however, I've never had that much success with Railguns, and the Strike Cruiser has always struck me as too sluggish and slow to get the best use of its broadsides.

I typically use Marathons armed with Flash Missiles, backed up by Apollo Bombardments with Standard or Flash Missiles. Marathons are hunter-killers, Apollos try to get as many ships into as many arcs as possible to dole out the crit pain.

 

[Shadow Queen]

try one of each in your fleet

 

[wkehrman]

I like having a couple of Bombardment Cruisers to deliver coup de grace blows. Combine them with a Delphi for the rerolls.

 

[EDFDarkAngel1]

The Strike Cruiser doesn't work well with me. The Bombardment Cruiser kills more ships than anything else. Having a pair of them neutered an ISA fleet all by themselves.

Dark Angel

 

[phoenixhawk]

I've used the missile version and like it. Never tried the other, although it seems interesting to try at least once. But like was stated, they differ based on what you want them to do. They have different missions in the fleet list so it is kinda hard to just straight up compare.

Chris

 

[skavendan]

Take the bombard and stop and pivot the revolving ship trick allows you to reload and fire every turn!

 

[Burger]

Problem with the Strike Cruiser is the missiles are F, but the other good weapons are on the broadsides. So if you try to use the P and S, you're wasting the missiles. The only place for it to be, is right in the middle, where it can use multiple arcs. And that kind of wastes the long range of the weapons. I'd stick to the bombadment cruiser, use it like it's meant to be used, sitting at the back bombarding.

 

[Locutus9956]

Unless you load it with heavy missiles... then right in the middle its NASTY...