You may be right, especially with the Gravity Minefield mines getting upgraded. Still, tier 2 and 3 stations are tough nuts all around.
midline what? Some potentially useful strategy notes:
- Make sure you have something durable along to absorb various prv cheapshots. Dominator, Onslaught, Paragon, something that has a lot of brawn. EMP resistance is also useful.
- I've assumed there's a player flagship along to pop stealth drones and put in some well-targeted damage when the shields are down/away. If everything is on auto you may have trouble wearing down the station before you get worn down yourself. Combat skills help, but shouldn't be critical.
- Against a Star Fortress the Redan drones are a high priority target, time their flux and kill them and things get significantly less complicated.
- The shield cores are always on and take damage when they overload, and will overload for longer the lower their hull integrity is. It's not easy, but you can outlast them.
- If you destroy one of the Hangar or Heavy Battery modules the shield cores can be damaged when they rotate past the hole. They're fragile, and will die to a few rounds of accurate fire.
- Only the Heavy Battery has kinetic weapons - quite a few, granted - and the HB itself
only has kinetic damage; if you can distract it with an armor tanking ship that will help quite a bit. Just mind the Bastions on the sides, which have anti-armor weapons.
- When the station changes its direction of rotation there will be a period when it's almost stationary. This is a good time to get some heavy damage in.
- This is also a time when it's harder to move out of the way of the a module's fire since you can't move counter-rotation. Don't get caught out.
- Fitting some extra PD isn't a terrible idea, all those mines and missiles can be a real problem.
- While they can certainly put in some damage when there's a shield overload, glass cannons like the Sunder are likely to suffer from the station's various cheapshots. It is what it is.
If you want to cheese a prv station,
Spoiler
bring something with shield-arcing damage like a Tachyon Lance. Blows the cores right up.
