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[anakinskysolo]

The Modular Taskforce Cruiser in the case of the Empire and the Hajen-class Fleet Tenderin the case of the Rebels are the best ships for repairing other ships.

[Kaleb Graff]

as long as they have some backup or, preferably, repair ships.

What exactly do you mean as "repair ships"?

Are these the "space tugs" or so?S
In fact I wondered what are the space thugs for, as well as higher-levels of transport ships - except that the better armed transport can defend themselves better in case when suddenly attacked during space combat...

Space tugs do repair ships, but the MTC and Hajen are better at it. The higher-level transports produce more income.

[feld]

What exactly do you mean as "repair ships"?

Are these the "space tugs" or so?
In fact I wondered what are the space thugs for, as well as higher-levels of transport ships - except that the better armed transport can defend themselves better in case when suddenly attacked during space combat...

Space tugs are repair ships...but they're pretty tough to keep with a moving fleet.

The ships that Anakinsolo mentioned can keep up with your fleets and repair ships within a certain radius. The repair radius is the large bright green circle displayed around the ship when you select it. In addition to the fleet tenders, some of the starfighter carriers (Quasar Fire for the Rebels and Escort Carrier for the Empire at least) get the a repair ability as one of their upgrades. I *think* that this repair ability is just for starfighters though...


I don't think that higher level transports get the repair ability. The benefit of higher level freighters is that they provide more credit income.

[Casen]

What's the advantage of the tugs in comparison to say a modular taskforce cruiser/hajen-class?

[Ghostrider]

What's the advantage of the tugs in comparison to say a modular taskforce cruiser/hajen-class?

None. Tugs die. Very easily.

[Casen]

Guess I had nothing to loose by not building them.

[Ghostrider]

Guess I had nothing to loose by not building them.

Just remembered. Tugs have one massive advantage. They are the ultimate spammable unit. At 5s build time, you can have a whole fleet of them.

Try building 30 or so and hypering in 5 squadrons at a time near wounded ships. They can give good short range healing but in a battle they are also very expendable!

[Kaleb Graff]

What's the advantage of the tugs in comparison to say a modular taskforce cruiser/hajen-class?

They're cheap and early in the upgrade tree, when you don't have the other ships.

[Tropical Bob]

They also are starfighter-sized, so the enemy has less accuracy against them.

Fleets of them can actually last quite long, if you have enough of them.

And it's always a fun thing to watch them fly around and blow up so quickly.

[feld]

And it's always a fun thing to watch them fly around and blow up so quickly.

Wow. I do not want to be a tug pilot in your fleet...

[Kitkun]

Really, who wants to be a tug pilot in any kind of battle?

By upgrades, their repair ability gets much better, they get a lot faster, and their survivability more than doubles. Then they would only have to quintuple their survivability for them to have a chance!

Seriously though, the CT-20 is not half bad.

Edited by Kitkun, 07 January 2009 - 06:44 PM.

[Kaleb Graff]

The problem being it takes as much to get those as it does to get E-wing series X (excluding research)

[coinich]

Tugs and certain other ships heal. If you see a giant circle around the ship (not the normal "I'm selected" thing), that might be its healing range.

EDIT: I didn't see the second page...

Edited by coinich, 07 January 2009 - 09:28 PM.

[Phoenix Rising]

Sorry I took so long on the screenshots! Got caught up with the benchmarking stuff.

I can't say the Pirates were causing trobles for me since I started atacking with Preators II (2 + skipray screen of 16 squadrons).
Never lost a SBC under my supervision, although once one was very close to destruction. And for me nemesiss weapon of pirates was magpulse torpedo (the freiger variant) cripling weapons of my precius ships making them no more than huge practice target.

They're great against big, expensive stuff, but not so good against smaller, spam units.

What's the advantage of the tugs in comparison to say a modular taskforce cruiser/hajen-class?

None. Tugs die. Very easily.

I wanted to redo their upgrades a bit, but didn't get time. That said, they're the best repair unit per population point that you can build.

And it's always a fun thing to watch them fly around and blow up so quickly.

Wow. I do not want to be a tug pilot in your fleet...

Heh, they could be droid pilots. Who knows?

[Tropical Bob]

I actually staff my tugs with little children. Mostly orphans, but they're usually hard to come by until the war really starts going, which, even 100-some-odd weeks into my Core Worlds GC, hasn't done yet. I've only taken three planets, though my production has taken off and I'm ready for aggressive expansion.

That being said, I'll have plenty of orphan children to man my tugs soon enough.

Edited by Tropical Bob, 08 January 2009 - 05:17 AM.

[Phoenix Rising]

I suppose it's hard to fit a full-grown adult into a ship so small haha .

[Kitkun]

Quintessential family people, y'all ain't.

[Fox83]

But at guess droids are better than orphans.

Disadvantage of orphans:
1. You have to teach every one how to fly.
2. They grow up to fast (Only peace time disadvantage )
3. Young one have hard time to keep focused
4. For time it take to train orphan. You can have hunreds of driods in same time.

Edited by Fox83, 08 January 2009 - 09:08 AM.

[Phoenix Rising]

(MKIV Venerator research proclaim repair ability, but it doesn't seem so i battle.)

Oops, that was changed for v1.1.

[Fox83]

(MKIV Venerator research proclaim repair ability, but it doesn't seem so i battle.)

Oops, that was changed for v1.1.

Well yes in 1.1 seems to be lots of 1.0 (text) remnants. (Proton beams of heroes ISD IV, nonexistent abilities and so on.)

BTW I've changed lot that post, so you comment nonexistent text.

Edited by Fox83, 08 January 2009 - 09:21 AM.