Optimal battlecruiser loadout.

[Wolfgang I]

How do you design your battlecruisers?
I guess they are not very cost effective but I just like the design.

I guess two Focused Arc Emitter and Whirlwind Missiles are the default. Do people just leave the L slots empty?

Too bad Ancient Macro Batteries are such bad weapons because they are the only L slot weapons that have the same range as XL slot weapons and would work well with lances otherwise(I have always liked the animation of lances).

 

[Dragatus]

I guess two Focused Arc Emitter and Whirlwind Missiles are the default. Do people just leave the L slots empty?

If I go for FAE I might use the torpedo section instead and put in Devastator Torpedoes for the case that anyone gets close. But sometimes I go for lances & lasers and a third setup I use is lances, artillery and plasma in the M slots. But it's certainly true that there is no obvious optimal setup.

Too bad Ancient Macro Batteries are such bad weapons because they are the only L slot weapons that have the same range as XL slot weapons and would work well with lances otherwise(I have always liked the animation of lances).

The range is why they don't get to have good damage. But Kinetic Artillery comes close if you want good damage.

 

[Wolfgang I]

If I go for FAE I might use the torpedo section instead and put in Devastator Torpedoes for the case that anyone gets close. But sometimes I go for lances & lasers and a third setup I use is lances, artillery and plasma in the M slots. But it's certainly true that there is no obvious optimal setup.



The range is why they don't get to have good damage. But Kinetic Artillery comes close if you want good damage.

Torpedos might be the way to go indeed.

That Ancient Macro Batteries niss all the time is the most annoying part of it.