UC Occupation

Postby MisterBo on Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:54 am
Due to a conversation I had yesterday on the best fleet to occupy a UC base, I ran the numbers.

These numbers are run with UC techs given to both the attacker and defender. There are no CCs given to the defender. Make sure to run your own numbers with the appropriate number of CCs when calculating an attack.

F=Fighter
V=Vette
D=Destroyer
C=Cruise
HC=Heavy Cruiser
Dn=Dreadnaught

For a Heavy bomber and a cruiser spawn I just listed the fleet makeup in order of profitability.

HB

Fighters
F/V
*You must use a battle calculator to come up with the exact number of ships to attack with, otherwise you may lose a lot of credits*

Cruisers

Fighters
F/V
F/D
F/V/D
F/C

For HCs I am going to give more information. The numbers are formatted : Profit(lost fleet)

HC (

F/V 1071(1230)
F/V/D 990(1375)
F/D 1060(1250)
F/C 803(1620)
F/H 679(1930)
F/Dn 724(510)

HC (10)

F/V 1340(1535)
F/V/D 1245(1705)
F/D 1329(1555)
F/C 1000(2125)
F/H 860(2035)
F/Dn 892(640)

HC (12)

F/V 1601(1855)
F/V/D 1481(2070)
F/D 1601(1855)
F/C 1209(2430)
F/H 1037(2640)
F/Dn 672(765)

We notice a few things looking at the numbers:
1. The best profit is from F/V or F/D
2. The biggest fleet loss is from F/HC
2. The smallest fleet loss is from F/Dn

This leads me to the conclusion that either F/V(or F/D) or F/Dn are the best fleets to use to hold out against HC based UC spawns. The decision point is whether you want bigger profit, or smaller fleet loss.