Pheonix useless?

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You need Cloaking to get this piece of crap, so by the time you can build it a ship with 1 defense and 10 HP isn't worth very much. Sure, the attack rating is good...but you won't survive a single counterattack from any decent sized ship.

Does anybody use these?? If so, for what?

If they have no use right now, then let's make them invisible. They do come with the Cloaking tech, after all.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I do agree that they need to be beefed up. Currently it costs as much as a Battle Hammer but it takes 6 phoenixs to beat one BH. BH maint is also half of phoenix.

The only use currently is for raiding but corvettes are cheaper,faster and as effective against transports and trade ships.

They can't be used to attack Battle Transports as it takes 4 phoenixes to beat one BT.

I've seen for the first time in the latest version, extensive use of this ship by the AI. The Arceans built quite a number to complement its dreadnaught assault against the Dregs but needless to say, they were completely ineffective in denting Dreg DNs or in planetary attacks.