no_love

Thanks for the tip (old habits die hard). True, the formation would have to be very loose, but consider, it only takes a doubling of the distance between ships to halve the # of ships in an attacks AOE. An interesting change might be to make the AOE do significant hull damage, but poor shield damage. A further upgrade could make it do more shield damage, but it would still be most effective against unshielded or shields-down targets.

Heavy cruisers, esp. the TEC Kodiak with the rush upgrade, will wipe the floor with LRMs. Most tough fleets I've seen so far use a minimum of 10 heavy cruisers; some players are even spamming them, but this is generally a result of letting them over-expand because you were too busy turtling. I do think a change should be made, however, to add an ECM upgrade for one of the support cruisers, or the flak frigate, significantly reducing enemy missile accuracy within a typical repair radius