Speaking of carriers, I was thinking carrier compliment (as the rules currently are for fighters and bombers) 1/4 being khangard and the other 3/4 being Bogatyr. Thoughts?
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...Oh, sorry. You meant
relevant thoughts. Errr...yeah - personally I'd push up the proportion of
Khangard martyrs. Possibly reverse them but that might be too many. I'd suggest 50/50
Firstly, they're one-shot (obviously) so you can never have too many. Granted, anyone telling you other bombers are multi-use is normally telling porkies; by the time you've attacked, returned to a carrier, reloaded, and are ready to launch a second time, either the game's already mostly decided or some ill-educated imperial savage will blow the carrier up.
Secondly, a
Bogatyr multirole is essentially a fighter. Yes, it has a torpedo. Whoop-ti-do. One micro-torpedo means an average of one point of damage to a target, once. It's primary job is still superiority, because
Khangards can't protect themselves and one or two dogfighters can cut them to pieces. However, most people don't load out on fighters, simply because not every enemy brings bombers, and once the bombers are gone they don't achieve much (and you can always shoot capital ship batteries at the bombers) - and if you're buying expensive carrier deck space you might as well use it for your own bombers.
Bogatyrs are essentially there to intercept any fighter screen before they can jump the dogfight -2
Khangards. Once this is done, or if they get a target of opportunity, they can dump their torpedoes into something.
Khangards are the ship-killers you're buying the carriers for; a small skirmish screen of
Attakhans or
Bogatyrs protects them whilst they do it. The former are better at the job, the latter are still useful (if not exactly 'good') if it turns out there's no fighter screen to get past.
