ISA high command urgently calls a sci-tech meeting. The topic of the day is a development of huge plasma cruise missiles with multiple warheads and a special cruiser platform based on Kansas class to carry these Current Tigershark cruise missiles might not be enough to deal with Hierarchy ships...
Right decision. Very right one. And you will need tp launch a LOTS of these, because just to wear off Hierarchy Battleship's armor to 0 in one point, it requires good amount of IDF's Solaris Torpedoes (and these are VERY destructive).
Man, Hierarchy is as badass as it was in StarCon...
Well, they have all required qualities to be count as universal evil in local scale: badass, merciless, greedy, deceptive, overpowered with almost infinite army. But they related more to Hierarchy from Universe At War (even sign is from there), but I think Hierarchy from UaW is reference to Hierarchy from StarCon, so works out for everybody
New ranges of IDF weapons:
Siege Railgun from 2400 to 1600.
Battle & Assault Railgun from 1600 to 1200.
New ranges of Hierarchy weapons:
1200mm Artillery from 1800 to 1400.
600mm Artillery from 1400 to 1200.
300mm Artillery from 1200 to 1000.
800mm Autocannon from 1000 to 500. (It does around 3700+ dps, so small range at least something that counters this OP weapon)
400mm Autocannon from 800 to 400.
200mm Autocannon from 600 to 300. (Don't ask me to turn it in to PD, because missiles won't have any chance at all)
100mm Shotgun from 200 to 100. (This is only Hierarchy weapon that can act as PD, and it acts good as PD)
Some additional Info:
Still if you got to close to Hierarchy's Battleship, you will be steamrolled in seconds (even IDF's Samekh-class Battleship will die very fast), also you must remember that all Hierarchy weapons have area based damage with its nuclear shells, it's another reason why 100mm Shotguns, easily can send lots of missiles to their missile heaven... or hell...
Even most weak Hierarchy's frigate equipped like good destroyer-class ship (4 medium mounts, 6 small mounts) and Destroyer class already have 2 large mounts... I hope I mentioned that you can't destroy their weapons or engines, right?