Executors fragile?

[ErikModi]

Now, I've only played a little bit of the game and mod, but to Executor Super Star Destroyers seem rather fragile to anyone else?  Mine keep getting blown up with relative ease by enemy fleets (even with lots of other ships to support them), and it just seems like they should be able to take a bit more punishment than that.  Or am I being stupid and playing the game wrong somehow?

[Mr.Puerto]

What type of ships are you sending in to support them

[ErikModi]

After some experimenting, my main offensive fleet wound up being:

1 SSD
5 ISDII
5 Altor
5 Torpedo Sphere
10 VSDII
10 Dread
10 Strike
10 Lancer
10 MTC

I think I upped that to 10 of everything for what turned out to be the final battle of that game, where my SSD died right before I won a Military victory (not sure how that happened, but hey).  VSDs make Scimitars, ISDs go 50/50 Interceptors/Defenders, everything else is straight Interceptors (I think), to counter NR fighter spam.

[Corey]

They're still fairly powerful (at least worth the investment), however in general the strategy we've taken with titan balancing is undertune at start and tune up, rather than start with them at Sins level and tune down. It's way too easy for titans in Sins to steal the game and become the only thing that matters, and that's something we're very much trying to avoid, but they will be a bit more powerful in some ways next version (especially with all of their abilities).

[Papa Palps]

After some experimenting, my main offensive fleet wound up being:

1 SSD
5 ISDII
5 Altor
5 Torpedo Sphere
10 VSDII
10 Dread
10 Strike
10 Lancer
10 MTC

I think I upped that to 10 of everything for what turned out to be the final battle of that game, where my SSD died right before I won a Military victory (not sure how that happened, but hey).  VSDs make Scimitars, ISDs go 50/50 Interceptors/Defenders, everything else is straight Interceptors (I think), to counter NR fighter spam.

You could focus all the Altor's Protect and Repair abilities on the SSD to sustain it throughout the battle.  The Protect abilities should be at least level 2 so that's 30 seconds of invulnerability right there, with only a cooldown of 50 seconds.  So that leaves a 20 second vulnerability period.   The Repair should give you 2500 health every 40 seconds and might save the SSD if it's in deep trouble.

[ketamarine]

The issue with the titans in this mod is that all AI fire seems to go to highest HP pool target. So if you roll in with that large fleet, and watch the damage coming in, all your cruisers and flagships will be fine, but your titan will be getting crushed.

You need to keep it behind a line of screening dreadnoughts or other front line cruisers like victory 2s. Another reason I always take the sovereign as you can hit with an initial superlaser at the biggest target, and hang back while it recharges. There may even be some range advantage with executor due to huge numbers of concussion missile launchers.

And altor fleet tenders are your friends!