If that's the way it works, it pretty much equate to an hp buff then.  Or armor, not sure which.  Either way, something like -25%-50% damage from AoE would be better than immunity I think.  No ship should be immune to a certain type of attack.  i don't even like that there are certain frig/cruiser abilities that can't target capitol ships.  Or even that the corsev can't take one over...yeah, I see the need balance wise, but realistically?  It does not make sense.

-Twi

One thing no-one has really talked about much, but I think needs mentioning when discussing killing a titan, is not just being able to kill it, but also focusing on taking away your opponants ability to re-build another one.  This is where a war of attrition becomes so important...  you need to focus on choking off your opponants resources.... shatter his trade routes if possible...  Find where the titan is being built and superweapon that planet to death....  or all of the above... whatever it takes.....

Titans are super expensive, so I would advise using every opportunity you can to make your opponent pay dearly for it! 

The hit points of the thing make this tougher to pull off.  If it was more vulnerable it would be routine--but if it was more vulnerable, it would be easy to have your opponent get momentum and never recover.

I Killed a titan with 70 Illums and 6 Guardians, with repulse and deceptive illusion. (Repulse to push the fleet back).

Its not hard to kill a titan, unless your in early game. Mid-Late game it is quite medicore, depending on fleet compostion.

Exactly why Corvettes are perfect for the job.

That's why you send a crapload of them like LAC's in the Honorverse novels.

      I still think the easiest way it would actually be done by the devs, w/o any major rework would be to let anti-structure ships target Titans.

The Vasari have their moving starbases as their anti structure ship.

And as far as Advent/TEC anti structure comparison, this game is more interesting without exact matchups.

The Japanese had Zeros....we had Mustangs......

And honestly I do not think that was a good decision. People building orkies in enemy gravity wells primarily do so to force the enemy fleet to attack where they'll have an advantage, the fact it's good against structures is just a bonus. Besides, it can already fire on nonstructures.

In general, but in this case I think a closer matchup is needed, titans are so important to the game now that every faction needs a better viable way of dealing with them, or at least wearing them down. If you were to rely on antistructure cruisers the Advent and Vasari would just keep spamming bombers, because that would still be more effective. Besides, the Corvettes are even more different than the antistructure cruisers with a different debuff for each subfaction, not just race, but they have roughly the same base offensive stats.

Personally I only build corvettes against LRF spam and for early game expansion, and have not seen anyone build corvettes late game. They are at best mediocre against everything else but titans. Corvettes are also unique as they are the only type of ship we could remove from Titan AoE target filters. In theory I'd like Heavy Cruisers to counter titans, but we don't have any way to make them immune to Chasitc burst, which defeats the whole point. We can however do that to Corvettes, and I think there needs to be some sort of frigate besides carriers that can attack titans without fear of being torn apart by them. As it stands now Corvettes are the only real option for that.

Even before the beta was released, a major concern was that the counter to titans would end up being bombers, which are already extremely effective against almost anything. While the Devs did give the titans antistrikecraft weapons to try and deal with that, they really don't make a huge impact on huge swarms of them. I wish we would have been more adamant about it early on that either bombers need to be nerfed or titans less vulnerable to them.

I think there is agreement that early on titans can be countered. I'm talking about once you get 6+ with maxed out Chastic burst, scattershot and the Maw. It just gets to the point that Caps, titans, starbases and carriers are the only thing that can survive long against these abilities. And carriers are way too OP anyways, and even worse lag the game more than anything else, hence the need for some other frigate you can bring in to a titan fight.

Yes, the one thing I did not like about the new Corvette damage type is that it is more effective against Capitalships than when they used the antilight damage time. Still, I don't claim to be a pro, but I do play some amount of ICO now and its odd I haven't seen this. I've seen a couple of Vasari Loyalists late game with their obscene heavy cruisers, but usually its carriers that by far out number anything else late game. Granted, maybe that's because right now titan AoEs will devastate them as it is currently.

The AoE damage is dealt to all units within a certain range of the target the normal missile weapon has. So it does work well against tight groups of units no matter how far away your LRM are. The Vasari titan AoE (besides Maw), Desperation, works much the same way.

For the record, cluster warheads will do 10 damage to up to six target that are 1200 "meters" away from the target that gets hit by the missiles. Apparently this could include the target you're firing at. However, the mere 10 damage makes it barely noticeable except in very large numbers.

Would be way too easy to to shut down titans that way.

that said, allowing LF in general to survive into the late game would do a ton for late game fleet variety, since LF counter carriers which are what generally get massed these days.

Honestly at the risk of sounding like a broken record I'm going to say again I think it would be an extremely positive change to make medium armor tak only 50% damage from abilities(since there is an ability damage entry in armor types).  This would make LF almost as resistant to AoE as carriers, giving them late game usefulness without really buffing their early game much(AoE is a lot less prevalent early game).

Besides even if LF weren't hard-countered by AoE anymore, their armor type already limits their survivability(both LRF & HC have high damage ratios to them and priotize them as targets).

I love the irony with corvettes. It used to be OMG OP NERF THEM BACK INTO SATAN'S UNHOLY BUTTHOLE and now they're just meh. Something to make as a last ditch defense, or as an annoyance fleet.