M6 and...M7?

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M6 and...M7?

Post by Andre_ALmeida lms 2 »

Which is the best M6 for sector patrol in X2?

And I've read in somewere about an M7. What is that and where I can download this new ship?
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Post by BlueSwede »

Well, I think the best ship is the Osprey (in one sector patrolls). I had some Ospreys, but switched to mostly buy centaurs because thy're cheaper, and does patrolls about as good as Ospreys.

For multi sector patrolls you could have a Nemesis, or maybe a Dragon guarding an Hydra (very fast patroll)

That's my opinion anyway...

As for the M7, there's a M7 mod in the works for X3, I don't know if there is one for X2, though
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Post by RavenIII »

There is an X3 mod for the M7 in the scripts forum, it may take some searching, but it can be found, it comes between the M6 and M2.

Can't say much about the OOS Fleets, don't use much protection for my ships... never really needed it :roll:
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Post by grbaker »

A TL with 4-6 M3/M4 escorts.
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Post by BlueSwede »

grbaker wrote:A TL with 4-6 M3/M4 escorts.
Sure, an Elephant is a better sector patroll ship than any M6, but at the price of 20 Mcr, you almost get 3 centaurs (7 Mcr each)

Of couse, fully equiped they're somewhat more expensive...
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Post by BuriBuriZaemon »

I have about 14 Centaurs, each patrolling 2-3 sectors (some are overlapping due to intense pirate activities in certain sectors) and 2 more are still on the process of being fitted. So far, they're doing good job, except when they encounter Xenon fleets.

I don't have that much money for using Elephant sector patrols, still saving for a Collosus (plus its fighters) and a Titan, and the way I see it, it's abit unrealistic having a transporter ship doing patrol while I try to play my game as realistic as possible.

As for now, when I spot any treat cannot be handled by my patrolling Centaurs, I order them jump to safe sector and then I do the killing myself in my trusty Pirate Nova Raider. :twisted: Sometimes, I just dispatch my one and only Elephant (full BPPC when OOS) to handle the treat. I do plan to add 3x Nova to escort each of my patrolling Centaurs.

Can't wait til that M7 mod get released. I would put those frigates on sectors with Xenon traffics. By the way, a Centaur cost 9mil-something, add that with upgrade costs for around 1.5mil, roughly summed up to 11mil per fully-kitted Centaur.


EDIT: Sorry! Just realized you were asking about X2. My post is all about X3. FYI, in X2, I used Centaurs as well for sectrol patrols.
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