Federation versus Dominion

posted on April 29th, 2011, 1:19 pm

you never build mons? wow! those are very useful ships. the intrep is your tank against medium range or pulses and does good vs medium or large ships with its torp. the monsoon is good against long range or little ships, with all beams fast speed and a special that kicks some serious bottom.

even if u arent needing mons for fleet combat, build 5 in mid game and get proximity torp. then go viciously murder their miners. the mons can tank turret fire (they take half damage from long range turrets - most common turret is phaser platform, which is long range) and are so fast they can easily escape the enemy fleet if it returns to stop you. and if you dont have time to stay and fire phasers (maybe fleet was close or miners are getting towards cover), use proxi torp to get quick cheap kills then leg it. there are few ships better at harassing in the game. and these guys are dirt cheap and available almost from the start.

cloaky defiants are better, but seriously expensive and later game.