Actually, I just noticed my 'Guardian" drones aren't firing, because I haven't researched kinetics at all.
Last fight was carrier versus carrier, and the two waves of interceptors passed each other, my interceptors blew up their carrier, and doubled back to finish off the interceptors, who at that point were dancing circles around my blocking guardians.
Anyone else noticed behaviour?
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while the combat fleet is "active", you can select your drones and look at their stats... my interceptors are m8, but my guardians are still m0. my interceptors beam strength is 60, and the guardians' attack strengths are all uniformly 0.
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