Milk cows, how to do them? |
One of my favorites strategies in SEIV was to use ships with small supply capacities in fleet with one or 2 ships with only supply bays on it, they shared the supplies and I could fly, fight longer, I called them of milk cows (like german specialized u-boats in WWII).
Now to the question, I want to use the same strategy in SEV, but I am not sure if I bulild a freighter and transfer the supply and ordnance to the cargo hold, of if I buld a ships with only supply and ordnance bays (no weapons or armor, just the basic to allow it to fly).
It is not about, which setup is going to have more supplies, but which setup is going to share those, with the fleet.
Great Minds think a like.
One of my standard builds is a class called "Milch Cow" in hommage to the German U-boats of the same type. I don't use a Freighter. I use a standard combat hull with next to no armor, A solar Panel and lots of Ordinace and supplies. I use a combat Hull so that if I need to I can convert old combat types to Milch Cows if I need them. Plus combat hulls are faster than freighters.
Both work...
But when the supplies/ordnance are stored in cargo, the sharing isn't automatic from what I've been able to tell, so when your warships get low on supplies/ordnance you have to go in and manually dish out the goods yourself. The only upside to using cargo bays is that if you find yourself running out of ordnance long before supplies, or vice versa, you can load up with more of one or the other without having to design and build/retrofit new ships.
Suction feet are not to be trifled with!
supply/ordnance storage +
supply/ordnance storage + (repair bay + emergency resupply/reordnance pods) would be a better Milk Cow... a mobile fleet needs repair ships anyway, why not get resupplied for free?
supply and ordnance are
supply and ordnance are shared within a fleet.
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an se5a is a ww1 fighter, it is also a car.
Go with the supply componets
When i make fleets with ships that ONLY have supply componets my fleet totals them up and shares them.
But try it out and let us know how to works!
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