I've got some options

[Abraxas]

I'm looking over my 5 pt RAID fleet and I realize I have several attractive options for alternative ships. It's really come down to a simple SKIRMISH point and what the best choice for it is.

Here is the core fleet I have:

1 Cantaurion
1 Balvarin
3 Vorchans
2 Demos


Now, my options for the extra SKIRMISH point are:

1 Covran

or

4 flights of Rutrians to replace the Balvarin flights

or

2 Kuatis


I simply don't know what to do. The Rutrians seem attractive, but potentially wasteful. How do they preform? I don't currently have a scout in the fleet, and since Minbari would NOT be my primary enemy, I didn't see a need for it... but a scout is nice to have anyway, right? And the Kuatis make great escorts for the Covran considering they have the same speed and all as well as good initiative sinks.

I'm proplexed. Anyone wanna help?

 

[thehod]

Corvan, you will never know when you might run into stealth or a nice redirect for some ion cannons.

 

[Target]

Corvan, you will never know when you might run into stealth or a nice redirect for some ion cannons.

Ion cannons are twin linked but matter cannons, plasma accelerators, ion torps & sentri's are different story

 

[Target]

I'd go for Kutai but i just love the model as well.
Been using Kutai's with Morgath instead of Vorchans. They are about as good as Vorchans, 3AD beam DD is just nice + have interceptors. The potential is awesome with beams as well.

 

[victor romeo]

I'd use one patrol point to upgrade 4 flights of Rutarians. This means you can then keep the remainder as Sentris and use them as interceptors or change them to Raziks (for free) giving you dogfight +4!

With the remaining patrol point take a Kutai. It has excellent fire power for a patrol level ship and is suprisingly tough due to its dodge and hull 5.

Oh, and for the record Rutarians rock! Stealth and Dodge 2+ makes them fairly safe from ship borne weapons whilst their dogfight score combined with a fleet carrier makes them good supeiority fighters. To top it off the weapn load is flexible enough to maul ships with little or no anti-fighter up close, or to stay out of anti fighter range and Ion Bolt them to death.

 

[Ripple]

I'd skip the Corvan myself. Both of the pair Kutai ad the mixed upgrade and Kutai seem good choices.

Ripple

 

[Abraxas]

I figured everyone would make me take a Covran. Glad that isn't the case.

I think I'll go with the pair of Kuatis. They'll escort the Centaurion, and when combined with the fire power of the Vorchan/Demos wolfpack, I'll hopefully make short work of large, lumbering ships. I'll then take a mix of Sentris and Raziks for fighters. Or maybe I'll try victor romeo's idea of mixing them up.

I'll try them both out

Thanks for the help, guys .

 

[Lord David the Denied]

I figured everyone would make me take a Corvan. Glad that isn't the case.

I think I'll go with the pair of Kutais. They'll escort the Centurion, and when combined with the fire power of the Vorchan/Demos wolfpack, I'll hopefully make short work of large, lumbering ships. I'll then take a mix of Sentris and Raziks for fighters. Or maybe I'll try victor romeo's idea of mixing them up.

I'll try them both out

Thanks for the help, guys .

Fixed your spelling.