What fleet is ideal in my situation?

    Currently im playing in an oldish uni (Virgo)

    So theres qiute a few players in my ranks that i want to hit (Top 400) They are mostly turtlers and sometimes have a nice sized combat fleet that is included alongside.


    Normally ive built purely bombers and destroyers to hit defence (Bombers for fodder defense crack RL,LL,HL and the destroyers for gauss and plasmas duties)


    However I was wondering if I should mass only destroyers in this case? like have 10K Dessies instead of a smaller number of destroyers mix with bombers?

    I can afford deut and have traders available so deut consumption is not an issue, I also have a few RIPs to cut down significantly on deut consumption during fleet saves ...


    Also Im confused as Ive seen top players going all types of ship composition from light fighters with cruisers, BC, BS, Dessies all in one fleet combo, then ive seen the opposite of players only massing two massive ships, normally destroyers and bombers and or destroyers and battlecruisers..

    Was wondering whats the difference in those two playstyle when they are both good compositions against defense and fleet targets?

    Also through out forum I still see a lot of hate for bombers, yet ive been having good success with them paired with dessies to take out those pesky rocket launcher fodder.



    Also if im going to become a fleeter, apart from obvious speed benefits of the General class and +2 Upgrades, how good are reapers? what role do they serve?

    Im currently a collector and Im liking its benefits from resource boost alone, but im hesitant to pay 20 bucks for a class change if its really going to make a big difference from reapers



    In my case I would need a good fleet to erase fodder, and destroy high number of gauss/plasmas, also would like a good size fleet Vs Fleet composition to crash their fleet if they have one!

    Edited 2 times, last by Indi ().

    After the updatel, if you want to hit on turtles, there's no better combo than Bombers and Destroyers alongside some Light Fighters. Or even Bombers + Light Fighters and/or Small Cargos, since Bombers are really strong against defences now if they are profitable.

    Reapers are exceptionally good against Battleships, Battlecruisers, Bombers and Destroyers, it's actually the best ship against these 4. But it's absolute crap against any kind of fodder and defences.
    It's also good against RIPs, but, Destroyers are still kings when it comes to that and also the Battleship is better suited than the Reaper when it comes to fighting RIPs.

    All in all, it's a nice ship to have, it's probably optimal to have a few of these alongside your fleet, not in overly huge numbers though.

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