Frigate Class Discussion

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Hiigaran
Torpedo Frigate - Low Armor but Very good all around offense
Flak Frigate - ANTI fighter. Okay vs Corvettes. Terrible against others.
Ion-Beam Frigate - Anti Capitol. Slow and outranged easily. Best as support.
Defense Field Frigate - No weapons. 20 sec Forcefield stops incoming fire.
Marine Frigate - Used to capture enemy frigate or larger ships. Draws fire 1st from CPU units.
Sniper Frigate - More info needed
Tulwar Frigate - Good vs Fighter/Corvette/Frigates. Built in Repair Field. Upgrades to include EMP pulse.

Vagyr
Heavy-Missile Frigate - Anti Frigate and larger. Slow firing, short range, hard hitting.
Assault Frigate - 3 fast firing guns. Good vs fighters/vettes.
Infiltrator Frigate - Used to capture enemy frigate or largert ships. Draws fire 1st from CPU units.
Artillery Frigate - More info needed
Warfare Frigate - More info needed

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Anyone use Sniper frigates? or who can log in and check what in particular makes them special? ...I seem to remember them having terrific range, with a small lazer cannon combined with long range torpedos?

Also, I haven't been playing Vagyr at all, so need more infoz on Warfare and Artillery.

[Chad Manning]

I have used the snipers and think that they do better than the ion frigates.

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Whats their specifics. Are they an anti-capital ship? or decent against a variety of targets? I know they have a lot longer range than the Ions.

[grant]

I am still not sold on frigets....they are just to easy to destroy for my taste.

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I just played a game vs a single expert, to give me some room to play around with different ships. Mainly shiry/intruder and sniper frigates.

Vs a heavy Vagyr Corvette force, even though shiry & intruders seemed to both be 'good' against all those varieties of ships, they hit hard, but not hard enough. In the end, I still have to give it to the Vettes for staying power I think.

For the sniper frigate... I actually think they did perform pretty well. The only down side, it is felt like it takes them a long time to deliver their damage. Because their main 'anti' capital torpedo suffers from what every missile type unit does. Time for the warheads to impact. BUT... since they tend to stay at long range..if you have them paired up with Ion Destroyers, and upgraded to self repair (frigate repair research) they seemed to survive pretty well... even in to the late game when I was getting rushed by 10+ enemy destroyers at a time.
If you run them alone though, the enemy will just close the distance and tear them up. Definitly need to keep them with a 'big' brother for protection.