Marathon or Apollo Strike varient

[hegemon]

well, after peruseing the new fleet book and havinf a look at my current available pool for my EA crusade era fleet, I have 3 apollos and a marathon, I was wondering which i should take.

the apollo strike compared to the marathon has about the same damage but half the crew, slower with only one turn

however the main arguement is the actual fire power, if i give up the marathons boresight main gun i could get a fore and aft Advance missile launcher, with P/S railguns od 6AD, AP,DD and P/S pulse cannons with their 14AD, TL.

the aft launcher would have the TD,SAP heavy missile while the fore launcher the 40",AP,Presice Long range missile.




just for further info at raid or battle level i would have a warlock or poseidon at the centre of the fleet, which do you think matches up better.

 

[Shadow Queen]

have one of each

 

[H]

personally, I think the Marathon sucks (unless it got upgraded since I saw it pre release)
you are better off with Omegas, but otherwise, the missiles on the appollo are way better

 

[hegemon]

i would have omegas but i dnt actually have any and i have no counters,
i would also have one of each but theres not actually room for 4 battle level ships along with my other ships

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ned to go to work, shit i'm late will finish this tomorrow.

 

[Dizzy Vree]

wat are the stats for the opollo strike????

 

[Burger]

It's like a Nova crashed into an Apollo, and someone said "hey this might fly..."

 

[The Hobbybox]

As much as I love the Marathon, it is unfortunately made entirely of tissue paper!
If you're against an enemy with a large number of hull 5 or less ships then take the Apollos, get in the middle of the enemy fleet and 'go wild-bunch' with the Port and Starboard weapons.

Tried it against another EA fleet last week and it works very well.

Throw in a few Chronos as support ships too, lots of Railgun fun for all!

 

[katadder]

the marathan has gained some missiles too
so it has differant firepower and job to the omega.

 

[H]

the marathan has gained some missiles too
so it has differant firepower and job to the omega.

it actually got em?? excelent news My Marathons won't be retired after all

 

[Court Jester]

The news in this thread excites me.

That is all.

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