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How to combat the LRM?

How to combat the LRM?

ok so far love single play pretty much everything is great about the game.
so thought ill try it out online with the amount of diffrent ships,techs etc there should be some really nice battles out there with a good amount of strategy invovled but so far 7/8 games most of the players play TEC and it seems in all the game the same tactic has applyied rush too build the biggest fleet of LRM's which at the moment is very off putting in playing multiplayer games. i am just taking a stab in the dark but the LRM's are WAY too over powered long range good damage and they can even take a hit.

so i wanted to put it too a test just for laughts and giggles the battle eneded up with the player with 55 LRM's i had 6 cap ships and 40 illiusion ships i also added a few of the guardian shield ships (hopfully it helped) when i arrived all the illuison ships used there ablity so bringing my fleet to 80 illys first off the cap ships went down in seconds dont think they even got off any abilites. and low and behold the rest of my fleet lasted a few mins tops afterbeing completey wiped other player suffered min damage.

first question anyone else incounted somthing sim as this with the LRM's
and second has anyone found a way around this?

i have tried hit and runs,
i have tried choking them of resources (but the LRM's are very cheap)
1 have tried hundreds of the little ships (hopfully win in numbers)
i have tried max cap ships and a tone of other (hoping a mix range of abilites would help)
i have tried leading them back to a heavly defended planet (had max def most were hangers)and attacking them but to no avail.

so if anyone has any working tactics please let me know. as it stands when i got into a game and see a TEC player i tend to lose the will to play hehe

sorry for the long post
enjoy the game and thanks in advance
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Reply #76 Top
I noticed something, it's kinda offtopic but oh well. The TEC and Vasari artillery cruisers were really good, those missile spams will do huge damage to the enemy fleet. But the advents Illuminator flat out sucks. I mean while you can kill like 5 light frigates with 2 or 3 LRM's. You'd need ATLEAST 5 illuminators to take out those same 5 light frigates. Which doesn't make much sense to me.
Reply #77 Top
Now see this is funny. Here we have a post about how the Illum sucks, and in another thread there is a post about how Illum spam kills everything.  :LOL: