Colbalt light frigates help?

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Alright when an invader shows up with 3 Marza dreadnoughts, and 64 Colbalt light frigates, you know your in trouble. So my question is, what is the best ship to counter said frigates,because my recent campaign was ruined when my extremly powerful fleet was destroyed by above enemy fleet leaving the enemy able to destroy my capital without much of a fight.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
a swarm of bombers can kill just about anything.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
In this situation, you would do very well with TEC LRM upgraded to splash damage. LRM get a bonus to damage versus Cobalts.

Of course, the winner of this fight will be whoever micros the fight the best.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Dunov's, LRM's, Percheron's, and Hoshinko's. Use them.. Love them ;)
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

In this situation, you would do very well with TEC LRM upgraded to splash damage. LRM get a bonus to damage versus Cobalts.

Of course, the winner of this fight will be whoever micros the fight the best.
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LRM would be the missile frig, right?

And how do you micro? Take out all the support THEN primary the capitals one by one, or take out the capitals first?
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top


LRM would be the missile frig, right?

And how do you micro? Take out all the support THEN primary the capitals one by one, or take out the capitals first?
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IT DEPENDS :O How many ships you got and how many he has hehehehe. If you can take out all his supporting ships before he can kill your capital, he will have to retreat or lose. Otherwise u can force his capital to retreat. But if the number of ships on each side is equal I tend to go for frigates first till I get a good advantage in number.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
let the enemy chase your capitals while your strikecraft tear them up. i like to set up a chain of movement orders from one side of the grav-well to the the other. this will save your hp and by the time they catch you half or more of them will either be destroyed or busy messing with your strikecraft. my main fleet usually consists of 1 akkan 2 dunovs(spelled wrong i think) and 2 kols. in addition to this i build about 30 to 40 light carriers and a mix of flak and javalis frigates. keep in mind that this is a single player strategy and you WILL have to change it up for online play as humans are much more adaptive then the ai.so the take home lesson is to use strike craft to disrupt the enemy and use caps/lmr frigates for damage.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
That's one of the reasons I like playing the Vasari! The level 6 Kortul Devastator has this nifty ability that infects a large group of ships (it'd probably be able to zap at least half of those cobalts), and causes splash damage every time an infected ship is destroyed. Blow up a few infected cobalts, and watch the hilarious chain reaction :P