Reccomended Resheph Weapons?

[Tenacity]

I've found missiles to be entirely useless on my carrier. The one and only application they have for me is against battleships, which I must fight at long range, and even then cruiser missiles cannot damage the shields on larger battleships, so without something else hitting shields, the missiles dont do anything.

as far as this:

Missiles can fire a lot faster than light mortars.

No, they cant. The light mortar has a 0.25 refire rate, that's one shot every four seconds. Order Cruiser Missile Turrets have a refire rate of 0.10, that's one shot every ten seconds. Last I checked, rudimentary math states that 4 is less than 10, so the mortar fires more than twice as fast.

Both of them cost roughly the same amount of energy - mortars are slightly less energy straining, and slightly more efficient. The missiles also have to deal with countermeasures, flak cannons (often used for shooting down missiles, and easily done from a battleship), and even cruise disruptors, plus they can be hit by weapons fire.

All in all, unless you're going to be bombarding a battleship from 5.5k with missiles, dont buy any.

EDIT:

If however you would be flying alone, there is really little you can efectively combat with such a light ship, fighters and bombers are not cruiser teratory, and anything bigger than a BHG destroyer or kusari destroyer will simply overpower you (unless you get a very powerful armour upgrade).

Best just try to get an all-round loadout if you aim to fly solo.

I dont agree with the last part of your paragraph there either. Look at the osiris - it's one of the smallest battleships, and has less armor/firepower than almost all of the others. However, a well flown osiris can easily take out a larger battleship, manuverability is key.

The recon destroyer has the same number of turrets, roughly the same armor, and the same power core as the bhg destroyer, and it's only slightly larger than the kusari destroyer. These ships can rather easily take out larger cruisers if you focus on dodging and aim your shots well.

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