Use Artemis + PAM to take out launchers. Pam to scout and artemis to take out it with range. Drone MRV's only have something like 1800 combined health, so they are not the most tanky of defenses. 

Drone launchers mostly slaughter frigates, they're like low damage cluster bombs, spreading out to kill lots of targets at the same time, but only doing enough damage to actually kill your tier 1 frigates. They have very little impact on dreadnoughts to the point of being completely inconsequential, and individual turrets are hardly sufficient to kill cruisers unless you sit there with no radar or vision getting pounded by one out of view.  They're really only horrifyingly destructive when you're chewing on a battle group at the same time and thus unable to simply wipe them out with a couple volleys of artillery.

They're also little different from the sheer destruction PHC artillery does from a high position against the equally shorter ranged Substrate units.  While they may be more in line with the dreadnought than cruiser artillery, they also cost massively more in radioactives than other defensive structures do.

Drone launcher and artemis are pretty overpowered. I think Destroyer needs to able to attack units in a same way artemis does and make them both less effective to discourage one unit type spamming. Drone MRV needs to be nerfed quite a bit too. Either make it cost more metal and take longer to build or have it's damage and AoE reduced.

muffin I;ve just watched you yesterday on stream getting destroyed by a drone launcher.

basically you lost 3 min to kill one drone tower and you had 4000 to 1000 score and map control advantage. A little bit later I have watched your army getting slaughtered by another drone tower long enough to be face rushed by maulers. that was basically a lost game. So drone tower is not ok. by far

We've made a modification to the Drone Launcher for 1.0:

Its AOE has been decreased from 250 meters to 100 meters but it now has armor piercing.

Was it that match I still won via turinium generator count, or that snow map where some of my units / buildings didn't want to do anything? If it was the first one yes my groups were slaughtered due to my lack of focusing on where the drone towers were. I would destroy one, but didn't see the second or third nearby and suffered a grizzly fate. Even though my groups were destroyed and eventually overrun by T2 substrate, I still grasped victory by the fingernails thanks to reaching the turinium limit in the end.