Did you ever w8 for any frigate to launch drones from just one launching pad? How much time did it took to launch all? How many hits a swarm of xenon M and P can deliver to a M ship that tries to launch drones?gorgofdoom wrote: ↑Sun, 23. Jan 22, 00:34A Zeus E with 24 torpedo pulsars and a complement of 12 ospreys (x17 drones) makes for a fighter complement of 228 S ships.
The pulsars provide a serious punch for L/XL/S threats while the osprey's + drones can easily handle any S/M threats.
If the pulsars all carry heavy torps that's 24x26x (17,246mj) = 10,761,504 MJ of damage potential in just heavy torpedoes.
If we want to look at ospreys as cluster missile carriers they can each hold 104 cluster missiles at 12,141 mj of damage each. A total addition of 15,151,958MJ of damage.
Moving a whole fleet that can deal 26 million megajoules of damage (while also providing overwhelming fighter swarms) at 5000+m/s is priceless.
Imo, this has the same strategic value as waiting for a Syn to launch 40 Gladius, good luck with that.
Edit: also wait for the Zeus to launch their 12 Ospreys to see how long that will take.