How do you destroy carriers?

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So my fleet of 7 capital ships vs 11 enemy carriers loses completely as none of my ships shoot the carriers, they just fly around and fire 2 missiles at random drones. I reburb the fleet to be 7 interceptors instead, and they still ignore the enemy carriers. So what do I need to kill enemy carriers? And why would capital ships and interceptors fully ignore them?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

11 enemy carriers,  HOLLY CRAP, thats a lot of carriers!!! and A LOT of drones.  Don't know if there is a way to attack the carriers before you take out all the fighters.  What  i do is load my ships HEAVY on defenses at the expense of weapons, The drones die easy and if you go in weapon heavy you waste space on over kill.

 

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Check what role the carriers have, and check what role the fighters are. Then consult BattleBehaviorDefs.XML to see if there's a role that will target the role that the carriers were assigned before they target the fighters. Be aware that your ships may engage the fighters first simply because most fighters are assigned roles which get placed forward whereas many carriers tend to be towards the back, and on top of that the fighters tend to be faster.

You may also want to design your fleet around a pair of roles rather than going for a single-role fleet; escorts, for example, are targeted by everything before capital ships are, and so a couple of escort ships with heavy defenses backed up by capital ships with lots of weapons may work out better for you than a more homogenous fleet which is required to spread defenses around more evenly since you will not be as certain which ships will be targeted first.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting joeball123, reply 2

escorts, for example, are targeted by everything before capital ships are, and so a couple of escort ships with heavy defenses

I forgot about this trick.  It works well, an escort with nothing but defenses can soak up a bunch of fire (before it dies) while your other ships are picking stuff off.

 

 

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I have found that starbases and shipyards can ignore the 'escorts first' targeting and shoot up my undefended capital ships.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top


So my fleet of 7 capital ships vs 11 enemy carriers loses completely as none of my ships shoot the carriers, they just fly around and fire 2 missiles at random drones. I reburb the fleet to be 7 interceptors instead, and they still ignore the enemy carriers. So what do I need to kill enemy carriers? And why would capital ships and interceptors fully ignore them?

 

With no say in how a battle is ran in the game you will always get this kind of thing happening.  I want tactical combat however that won't happen. But at least some sort of controls would be nice. 

I never understood why you would have a awesome ship construction system in a game and yet have no control over your ships in a battle.