Ok so this has spawned in my mind due to the always touted:
"But the Prefect has no rear firepower, thats a real weakness.."
I think that rear firepower is something thats nice to have, but since this is a fleet game, it should be up to a devious admiral to think of a way around that.
AKA Drazi dont get any rear of even side firepower to speak of, yet the fleet! is conisdered balanced.
Also there are some ships with serious rear firepower Nova and Bimith spring to mind immediately. But other ships like Omega or Hyperion, are in a fuzzy middle. Yes they do have an aft beam, but apart from that, the aft firepower is rather laughable. The problem being that you will be rarly able to get both beams firing at once, means you will either fire the front or the aft boresight beam. Other good ships like the Avioki have nearly no aft firepower at all. For me this reduces those weapon batteries to the fire and pray category, not liable to to anything serious but you might get lucky criticals....
And then ofc theres ships without aft firepower at all. Meaning that all of their good firepower is directed at the front, where you want the enemy anyway. Giving you a good chance of cleaning up with enemies in your front, and then just killing everyone at your back.
Now what are your thought on that, and of that in concert with ambush JP tactics. I decidely leave AJP out of this, because those ships get to fire right away, which is a huge difference in my book. Do you have a good chance of catching the enemy off guard, or in a weak arc so that he will actually have to worry, instead of the problem: "Well i kill ships in a certain order, so i dont shoot at them anyway and kill others first." Or do you run into danger of Triggys signature, simply giving the enemy extra arcs to fire from?
"But the Prefect has no rear firepower, thats a real weakness.."
I think that rear firepower is something thats nice to have, but since this is a fleet game, it should be up to a devious admiral to think of a way around that.
AKA Drazi dont get any rear of even side firepower to speak of, yet the fleet! is conisdered balanced.
Also there are some ships with serious rear firepower Nova and Bimith spring to mind immediately. But other ships like Omega or Hyperion, are in a fuzzy middle. Yes they do have an aft beam, but apart from that, the aft firepower is rather laughable. The problem being that you will be rarly able to get both beams firing at once, means you will either fire the front or the aft boresight beam. Other good ships like the Avioki have nearly no aft firepower at all. For me this reduces those weapon batteries to the fire and pray category, not liable to to anything serious but you might get lucky criticals....
And then ofc theres ships without aft firepower at all. Meaning that all of their good firepower is directed at the front, where you want the enemy anyway. Giving you a good chance of cleaning up with enemies in your front, and then just killing everyone at your back.
Now what are your thought on that, and of that in concert with ambush JP tactics. I decidely leave AJP out of this, because those ships get to fire right away, which is a huge difference in my book. Do you have a good chance of catching the enemy off guard, or in a weak arc so that he will actually have to worry, instead of the problem: "Well i kill ships in a certain order, so i dont shoot at them anyway and kill others first." Or do you run into danger of Triggys signature, simply giving the enemy extra arcs to fire from?