Essemecks

Quick, Vasari Loyalist STTC rush, everyone!

[quote who="ituhata" reply="3" id="3187475"]What a pain in the rump that ship must be with just a handful of ships. [/quote] Yeah, the only other time I faced someone that used that as their first capship, I held them off until mid-game and took it down by bomber-kiting him. This time, it was a low-tech rush, so I didn't have any time to prepare, and even after the fact, I still don't know what I should've done instead, which is rare. I make mistakes, but at least I u

So basically attack the support fleet, despite the fact that it's going to chew through my support fleet much faster due to the AoE? At this point, the only options I see are use a Corsev or Discord myself to hit their support fleet just as hard (and I'm just going to come out and say it: it's pretty weaksauce game development when the only viable counter for something is the same thing), or run away and leave it to face a starbase instead.

Alright, I ran up against someone that used the Corsev as their opening capship, and used it well, for the first time the other night. He had nothing but a Corsev and a host of light frigates. I had a pair of Sovas and some LRMs. In my mind, it should've been GG, since bombers > Corsev, and LRMs > light frigates... but it didn't play out that way. Demolition team blew up swaths of my LRMs, the Corsev easily tanked two capships and their attendant bombers' worth of damage wit