How do you fight Xenon Branch 9 Destroyer I?

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Re: How do you fight Xenon Branch 9 Destroyer I?

Post by vectorprime27 » Thu, 22. Aug 19, 23:20

My first encounter with an I was with a K in tow as a wingman. They were setup right next to the gate to hit traffic in and out of the gate into Hewa's Twin from Trinity Sanctum. The Xenon had already taken over Scale Plate Green and Company Regard because of this. I sent a fleet of 9 Oddyesses and 10 Nemesis Vanguards supporting them after the I and the K. All were sporting mostly plasma turrents....no missiles. I was OOS. Based on what I read, I expect them to get clobbered but wanted to see how many survived. They killed both the I and the K in about 8 minutes with NO losses.

BTW, my first attempt at killing the I myself in my Nemesis by sitting in a blind spot on top and hammering away as someone else posted a video of. It didn't go well at all. The K simple came along and blasted the hell out of me....hitting the I as well. Of course, I died long before the I likely even noticed the K was firing on it.

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Re: How do you fight Xenon Branch 9 Destroyer I?

Post by AquilaRossa » Fri, 23. Aug 19, 00:01

vectorprime27 wrote:
Thu, 22. Aug 19, 23:20

BTW, my first attempt at killing the I myself in my Nemesis by sitting in a blind spot on top and hammering away as someone else posted a video of. It didn't go well at all. The K simple came along and blasted the hell out of me....hitting the I as well. Of course, I died long before the I likely even noticed the K was firing on it.
When up against more than one destroyer and escort it's best to deal with escorts first and then lure one of the destroyers far away from the other. They are not so brainy and fall for it every time. A squadron of 24 Perseus fighters equipped with beam weapons can eat up a K with no losses. They can also deal out a K and I together, but you need to be OOS and watching so you can withdraw damaged fighters for repairs. I build defence platforms at the Xenon gates that include a S/M repair dock. They do not seem to do much OOS, but if in the sector they are glorious. The platform can dispatch a destroyer in seconds. OOS their main use is repairs and for assigning the squadron to so i do not have a massive list of fleets or unassigned.
I have seen the platform seem to cause a build up of Xenon on the other side of the gate. Dozens of P, M, and N plus destroyers. I am not sure if the defence platform and squadron is causing this, or if it is just usual mustering that I happened to notice. Anything that goes thru that gate is toasted by all those Xenon.
Some of the Xenon sectors are contested space, so factions build defence platforms in them. This can be annoying because I have found traders of mine trying to supply them and ignoring blacklists that say to stay out of enemy sectors.
I have enough ships to go into the Xenon sectors and put an end to them, but I don't. I make a game of securing those border regions and leave the Xenon sectors alone - for now at least. It makes for a very busy game and something to do with all those credits. I got on this gate blocking game because I was losing too many traders. I wanted to make all sectors safe for trade. Once I have done that I might think about taking those Xenon out and making a move on HOP.
Trouble is though that growth in the universe is huge. So many more factories and frame rates are starting to get too low to continue. It may force me to remove all those factories by force just to keep my game going, but those factories are also customers. If I kill them all there are no credits to be made because my factories are self sufficient. Space capitalism and war will be superseded by space communism and boring old peace and tranquility.

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Re: How do you fight Xenon Branch 9 Destroyer I?

Post by Cratz » Fri, 9. Jul 21, 08:04

I got stuck inside !
The Xenon XEN I (very big one) killed 4 or 5 ai rattlesnake and a big fleet around it damn, i followed the author advices and rushed the xenon engine area at the bottom with my simple nemesis vanguard (love this ship), but when i started to shoot the engine etc my ship got stuck inside the xenon destroyer... from the belly of the beast i killed it (many torpedo, etc). :P :P :P

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Re: How do you fight Xenon Branch 9 Destroyer I?

Post by Alan Phipps » Fri, 9. Jul 21, 14:54

That's a nice if rather exploity method. :D Since this is a 2 year dormant thread and may have been made somewhat obsolescent by game version combat and asset updates, I'll close it.
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