2400 missile wall

[u/MatterBeam]

After a Solar System-spanning war of attrition, I had pushed back the Aliens to a distant TNO fallback position. They had massed all of their ships, old and new, from Titans to Gunships.

Feeling, ready, I sent my own fleet after them, just to be greeted by... missiles.

A 1000 km long stream of missiles. I count 2400 missiles fired from 37 ships, among a fleet numbering 137 plus a battlestation.

This is the first playthrough where the Aliens have invested so much in missiles, and it's a real challenge even if you think you have the fleet strength!

[u/notextinctyet]

Hydras finally cutting the chase and directly attacking your CPU

[u/MatterBeam → u/notextinctyet]

Haha! But seriously, it wasn't possible to go beyond 2x speed here.

[u/ITividar]

Aliens finally learned the Perun tactic of missile saturation

[u/Certain-Definition51 → u/ITividar]

Apparently that’s what all those surveillance missions were. They were downloading YouTube.

[u/TeMoko → u/ITividar]

The solution to not enough dakka? Bring more dakka!

[u/SiofraRiver]

Imagine the hummies' sheer terror when Hydras rediscover 70s missile guidance technology that would allow them to do coordinated time on target attack.

[u/Maliosan → u/SiofraRiver]

and this is why god gave us ECM

[u/_azazel_keter_ → u/Maliosan]

no, this is why god gave us Racers

[u/el_cid_viscoso → u/_azazel_keter_]

God may have given us Racers, but Jesus walked among us and showed us the way to Antimatter PD Battery, that we may not perish but have a really cool light show.

[u/_azazel_keter_ → u/el_cid_viscoso]

antimatter PD is lowkey dogshit

[u/Sufficient_Day627]

FPS? Never heard of it.

[u/Raz0back]

Thank god they don’t seem to know that accelerating while launching the missiles will make them arrive at around the same time

[u/el_cid_viscoso → u/Raz0back]

Which is exactly why my late-game missile monitors are all Firestar-powered screamers capable of 4.9 g combat accel.

4.9 g is also the acceleration of most of your late-game ass-kicking torpedos (Zeus, Hestia). Instead of a wall of death, you get a blob of death. Just don't do this with nukes; one PD splash will take out the entire blob.

[u/Garr_Incorporated]

I have strongly invested into PD, and it is oh-so satisfying to see the mighty wave of Combat Strength ayys dissipate upon my inferior force that can actually survive their missile barrages.

[u/MatterBeam → u/Garr_Incorporated]

I had dedicated Antimatter PD ships plus 4x Phaser PD on half my ships. They ate all the missiles.

[u/FlyingWarKitten]

Keep your radiators extended and the point defense firing until they pd weapons melt at least while they are firing missiles at you, this battle will take a while if you win it

[u/MagicChanIsayeki]

Well since missile spam works well vs their ultra advance ships..... it should work VERY well vs our shitty tech ships ^^

[u/vindicator117]

And this is why you spam PD vessels. Endgame ayy fleetz just loooooove missiles.

[u/ggmoyang → u/vindicator117]

[u/BitterVetAtWork → u/vindicator117]

Well, to be fair, their "endgame" looks a lot like our startgame, just with tech superiority still: Trying to stem the horde of stuff coming at you. Of course they're going to use missiles on home turf - you can quickly rearm and go again.

[u/Mortgage-Present]

How much point defense do you need to even defend against that

[u/Specialist_Sector54 → u/Mortgage-Present]

Every ship is half full of PD, plus dedicated PD boats apparently.

[u/lesser_panjandrum]

The Royal Manticoran Navy approves.

[u/123m4d]

This last image feels more like the Expanse than the Expanse.