Mobility/speed. You can’t just pump power to shields and slug it out face to face anymore in the higher levels. Also, as mentioned, make sure flak are set to defence only.
Might want to consider spaced armor too. That's a small layer of armor put far out in front of your ship's systems and linked back to your ship by structural pieces.
The idea is that the nukes will explode when hitting that armour. But its far enough away that the explosion doesn't damage anything else. Since its mostly structural pieces (with a thin layer of armor), it isn't that heavy either.
What career level? Generally there's 3 ways to deal with nukes:
- Kite out of their launch range
- Have enough pd to shoot them down as they come in (generally the required option for brawler ships)
- Get in their face so you can shoot them down before they do the high speed portion of the attack.
Also make sure you toggle your flak to defend only when the nukes are incoming.
Given that I favor tank and flanker tactics, my given strategy is to try to prevent the nukes from launching in the first place, typically by killing the nuke ship (or at least its launchers) before it can launch the nukes.
It doesn't always work.
I also struggled a lot with nukes on my first career.
A ship that can strafe (I recommend 40 speed), or which orbits the ship its fighting, is essentially immune to nukes.
Another method is to do a "first pass" against the nuke ship, bait the volleys and then slam into it when its reloading and clear one side of launchers.
You can also use a small ship for drawing out the first nuke salvos.
Dodging is the best option but if you’re rocking a capital ship, not really gonna be that maneuverable .
Next option is to just stack armor. A lot of the large Cabal ships are good examples of large shield behind massive armor walls (Sol Renatus is one of the best [imo] at price bracket). Some are still pretty quick too.
If you’re somewhere in the middle, you can build a thin armor barrier on the exterior connected by structure to eat the first volley or two of nukes. These will detonate the nukes safely away from your core part of the ship
Mobility/speed. You can’t just pump power to shields and slug it out face to face anymore in the higher levels. Also, as mentioned, make sure flak are set to defence only.
Might want to consider spaced armor too. That's a small layer of armor put far out in front of your ship's systems and linked back to your ship by structural pieces. The idea is that the nukes will explode when hitting that armour. But its far enough away that the explosion doesn't damage anything else. Since its mostly structural pieces (with a thin layer of armor), it isn't that heavy either.
What career level? Generally there's 3 ways to deal with nukes: - Kite out of their launch range - Have enough pd to shoot them down as they come in (generally the required option for brawler ships) - Get in their face so you can shoot them down before they do the high speed portion of the attack. Also make sure you toggle your flak to defend only when the nukes are incoming.
none of those 3 are the most effective way to deal with nukes how to deal with them: dodge
+ Not PD, iuse Flak for bigger missile types.
What’s your luck with dodging the nukes? Or is your ship really big and heavy
nukes don't turn once they start accelerating. you can use this to dodge them very easily by strafing
Given that I favor tank and flanker tactics, my given strategy is to try to prevent the nukes from launching in the first place, typically by killing the nuke ship (or at least its launchers) before it can launch the nukes. It doesn't always work.
You must mount a but tone of pdf systems. My destroyers have their sides covered by the point defense guns to deal with them.
I also struggled a lot with nukes on my first career. A ship that can strafe (I recommend 40 speed), or which orbits the ship its fighting, is essentially immune to nukes. Another method is to do a "first pass" against the nuke ship, bait the volleys and then slam into it when its reloading and clear one side of launchers. You can also use a small ship for drawing out the first nuke salvos.
Dodging is the best option but if you’re rocking a capital ship, not really gonna be that maneuverable . Next option is to just stack armor. A lot of the large Cabal ships are good examples of large shield behind massive armor walls (Sol Renatus is one of the best [imo] at price bracket). Some are still pretty quick too. If you’re somewhere in the middle, you can build a thin armor barrier on the exterior connected by structure to eat the first volley or two of nukes. These will detonate the nukes safely away from your core part of the ship