sentinel
defender
flak

That counter chart seems kinda weird. Unless I read it wrong or don't understand something about the game.

Do gardas not counter LRMs Fighters and Bombers?

They are not the BEST counter (fighters are), but they are rather effective. Fighters do about 24 DPS to light armor, while Flak frigates only do around 20. However, as the chart says, flaks are by far the best counters against fighters, which have very light armor.

Gardas are effective against Light armour (100% damage), but they get a bonus against VeryLight (150% damage).

VeryLight Armour - Fighters
Light Armour - Bombers, Scouts, Siege Frigates, Long Range Frigates

sorry to say

but all this is not true
there are a few ways to counter LRM class frigates, and TEC garda is not one of them


TEC:
the only way to effectively counter LRM's is to make LRM's of your own, since theyre made pretty fast


Advent:
best way to counter LRM is using the Illuminator, since it needs 3 tech levels this is not always avaible
instead use Defence vessels, the adventanti fighter frigate is the strongest of its type and wil do good damage to both friagtes and fighters


Vasari:
also get your LRM class friagte asap here, other then that the vasari havent got anything to effectively counter LRM in a fast paced game



always remeber that the LRM is not overpowerd, it only does good damage vs light frigates. to counter dont panic.

example of all this, i was Advent on a small random map
i got rushed with alot of lrms (15) and even lost my capital ship (progenitor)
even so i managed to reatreat most of my fleet get some defence vessels and illuminators and destroy the enemy's fleet.

in the end, i won the game without building a new capital ship
this proves that massing is the worst strategy their is, since once your enemy knows what class your massing it'll get something to counter it. lrm vs lrm is the best strategy to TEC and Vasari, tough for Advent the best trategy is to get both Illuminators and Defence vessels (or only defence vessels when somehow cannot get the tech


this concludes my opinion how to counter LRM rush

so you're saying LRMs only pose a severe threat if you frigate spam?
obviously enough of them would kill anything, but in context...
i always get frigate spammed

Long Range Missile i believe.
Yea the chart gave me a bit of trouble too.
ok, just had a look, if u look at the top row, it gives you the ship class, armour class and damage class (for example). Say you want to find out what the LRM is best at, you look at the damage type, then go to the ship class of the corresponding colour. If you want to see what it gets damaged by, you look at its armour class then look up the corresponding colour in the damage type, then scoot across to see what ship it is. The ones that match up are the ones you want to use.
Thats how i am reading it...a bit awkward to put into words tbh, if someone else can do it better?

much better put, thanks

I should really know this, given that I've played several games as Advent now, but if Illums are anti-capitals, what's the most efficient Advent counter to light frigates? Disciples? Fighters?