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[Orikson]

Hello again. Today, I'll like to ask what's everyone's favourite fleet comp.

Here are the main points I'm looking for though:

- What ship is the one you fly?
- What other ships do you dispatch with it?
- Captains are assigned to which ships in the fleet?
- If you have fighters, what carrier or carriers you use along isde what kind of fighter?
- Overall aim/strategy?

Also, any ships of the vanilla mods can be used as long as they are usable in 0.7.2a (that includes Rook and Castle if you haven't changed to Dynasector).

My fleet consist of my piloting the Oddsey-class capital accompanied by a Storm-class with at least 7 fighters. Other ships include some Shadowyards (especially a few of the one that can reverse very quickly) and assorted bombers randlomly picked up and small phasing frigates. Aim is usually swarm and overwhelm (fails against rush based enemies with On-Slaughts unless I can retreat fast enough, and Templars, there suicidal tendencies wiped most of my fighters out). For logistics, it's just 1 Troop Transport and 2 mixed cargo/tankers.

Have fun! Let see what we can come up with!

[Bastion.Systems]

I usually end up flying a fleet mostly made from the captured ships of my enemies.

Right now I run with a BRDY commission and for the entire length of the game I have been at war with Diable.
 
My flagship is the mighty Maelstrom that I very luckily commandeered from a unlucky Kill Fleet captain.


My mainstay is 3 Gust's and an Imperium Legionary class.

Smaller ships are mostly Blackrock with a mix of pirate stuff.

Then a load of Blackrock torpedo bombers and Wasps.

[Megas]

Most of my fleet is a toolbox of flagships.  One Onslaught or Paragon, one Dominator, one Eagle, two Medusa, one or two Hyperion, one Lasher, one Scarab (no-brainer starter ship) and two to four Tempests.  Every non-pursuit battle gets solo'ed by one ship.  Battleship for simulator-sized extended battles, cruisers for detachments, Medusa for smaller fleets, and Hyperion for anything up to a single detachment-sized fleet.  For pursuit, Lasher with Safety Override is cheap and efficient at mowing down defenseless targets.  If targets are fast and/or dangerous, Tempests led by Hyperion or Scarab get deployed.  (If it is too dangerous, I auto-resolve.)  The only time I deploy more than one ship by endgame is during some pursuit battles when a lone Lasher, Scarab, or Hyperion cannot wipe the enemy fleet by itself.

I solo fleets because it consumes the least resources and protects the AI from itself.

In addition to fighting ships, I may bring one to three Atlases for looting multiple encounters in completely hostile systems (e.g., Eos Exodus), and as many tugs as I have slow ships.  If my slowest ship is my capital, then one tug to bring it up to burn 9.  If my slowest is my three Atlas, then three tugs to raise burn to 8.

I try to avoid beginning my raids with more than fifteen ships because boarding everything will fill my remaining fleet slots quickly.  When I want a new ship, I try to board instead of shop for it because boarding can be cheaper than shopping.

Fighters in 0.7.2 are too weak in the endgame and are not worth using.  Because fighters are not worth using, carriers are also similarly useless.  Ships without flight decks are better at fighting or more efficient at hauling cargo.

Officers are used primarily to keep my flagships at 100% CR so I can stay in battle and/or chain-battle even longer.  Officers rarely fight in the ships they get assigned to.  I take over their ships as needed.  Like I wrote above, my fleet is a toolbox.  Pick the one tool that is most efficient the job and fix it (read: destroy enemy fleets).

[Silver Silence]

A IFed Auria fitted with IFed autoguns and Scy light miniguns for PD along with 10 wings of phasing Serkets. Currently using a Templar Arondight in the central hardpoint, did have the hadron boomstick there before. I do have two Diable cruisers, the ones with four frontal medium hardpoints all slotted with IFed Mass Drivers but even with the absurdly good light miniguns for PD and extreme range in those mass drivers, they love to massively overextend and get up in people's faces until they explode, I've given up using them. They're just there as a place for my two officers to live.

[Mazrix]

Me?

I don't like capital ships, and fighters are just annoying... so I usually aim to run with a single Enforcer or Eagle, and about 20 Shepherds. The more the merrier. Spread those drones around while the frigates themselves spam missiles left, right and center. Meanwhile, you go around in your command ship, shoving HE shells into the rearsides of all those very nearly flux overloaded enemy ships.

It's enough to overwhelm Paragons at the loss of at worst 2 frigates.

[sirboomalot]

I personally enjoy a self-imposed frigate or smaller fleet, full of every survivable combat frigate I can get my hands on and armed mainly with long range kinetic weapons and HE or reloadable missiles. I hardly even have to give'em any commands for them to automatically surround whatever enemy fleet I'm facing, and then it's just a race against the CR to whittle the enemy ships down to their death.


Carrier fleets are actually the bane of my existence though, frigate firepower just isn't quite enough to keep the fighters down and the larger fleets generally have enough escorts to keep frigates off their carriers and otherwise distracted, leaving my frigates as the ones getting whittled down even as their CR ticks.

[Auraknight]

Personally, i end up stuck in whatever I can find on the blackmarket for under 30k credits, unless I use consol commands. in which case I like flying an XIV fleet. or, more usually, cruising around in a solo XIV falcon/eagle, plowing into bigger and bigger groups of pirates till I die, then I hop in another ship, at random, outfit it, fly it till it breaks, and start anew.
More on-topic, I usually end up with a lasher, a Cerberus, and a hound or two, plus a Talon wing, with a few shuttle missile-boats.

[lemski07]

here's my harem

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my capital is fast enough to chase small things.

[Orikson]

Thanks for all the replies, interesting what other players do and use!

[Sutopia]

Personally, i end up stuck in whatever I can find on the blackmarket for under 30k credits, unless I use consol commands. in which case I like flying an XIV fleet. or, more usually, cruising around in a solo XIV falcon/eagle, plowing into bigger and bigger groups of pirates till I die, then I hop in another ship, at random, outfit it, fly it till it breaks, and start anew.
More on-topic, I usually end up with a lasher, a Cerberus, and a hound or two, plus a Talon wing, with a few shuttle missile-boats.

For XIV fleets , join Hegemony and it has so-so chance to appear in military market.
If you get weapon/ship pack mod, you can even buy an XIV Conq if lucky.


Personally I like Afflictor as my flagship.
With the new features added last update, she's a total monster in player hands.
Other ships I tend to buy either "teleportable" ships(like medusa) or XIV ships.
Oh and also a lot of pirate buffalos  to make contraband trades.

[woodsmoke]

I'm currently working on building up a XIV fleet, just for the fun of it. Dominator, enforcer and falcon down, eagle and onslaught to go. Once I'm bored with that I think I'll start a new character and have him pilot a harbinger. 'Cuz phase ships are cool.

In the interim I'm flying a sunder as my flagship with a couple hammerheads and a mess o' frigates backing me up - a wolf, a vigilance, a brawler, a centurion and two lashers. I'm toying with throwing a couple kites (A) into the mix just for *** and giggles, maybe have 'em replace my vigilance which keeps gettin' itself blowed up. I also have a condor and a few fighter wings simply because I like fighters, but given their less-than-stellar performance in the game right now they hardly bear mentioning.

When I inevitably start getting low on funds (turns out war isn't terribly profitable for those actually doing the fighting; who knew?) I sock all of the above into storage and swap in my trade fleet: 8 mules and 2 cerberi, all with augmented engines and insulated engine assemblies to make 'em fast and quiet. I don't even bother with the emergency burn anymore; whenever a pirate fleet is waiting for me in hyperspace I just disengage and hoof it. The only ships in the (vanilla) game fast enough to catch up are the speedy little Tri-Tach frigates.

[VuNut]

A big ol' pile of Calm-class destroyers. Full of lag inducing, explodey goodness!

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[Kevin Flemming]

I never run a mixed fleet, always stay true to the faction I've joined. Even if it means having hardly any ships due to various factors.

Amount of ships varies as funds come in, combined with what is available at the time but I'll try to have:

1 x Flagship - Mine. Usually a Capital, if available. Larger Cruiser or Carrier, if not.
2 x Larger Cruiser. - Larger being model-size, compared to others if there are more than one in the same category.
1 x Carrier. - Just for variation really, not a huge fan of them.
3 x Cruiser.
3 x Destroyer.
5 x Frigate.

Fighters tend to be random amounts, depending on the faction(s) I'm up against. Sometimes I don't even bother as they can get destroyed very quickly. I'd rather spend the Credits on a tough ship.

I also try not to use Phase Ships. The time dilation bugs me a little. Sure, it has strategic value but I'd like my fights to finish prompt so we can get the punters out before the authorities find out. Ahem, I mean I have no patience.

Captain-wise, I look for all Steady. It's safe to leave them go off on their own sometimes and they don't kamikaze into Capitals every five seconds.

Strategy. Well, I don't really have one. In or out of combat. I like to roam around, get into trouble, get out of trouble. Battles, sometimes I take full control, sometimes I let the AI deal with it. I tend to fight my way to the top, rather than trade. It's harder but more fun and rewarding.

[goduranus]

Very proud of my little fleet, destroys many things.

[Deshara]

Two hegemony kites equipped with 8 Atropos and a close support machine gun, one steady officer escorting a cautious officer who I engage-order the target of my starlight harbinger that I've min maxed to make use of triple clarent.
Oh and a hecate equipped for close support fighter screening