Who uses it?
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I was reviewing a couple games, and I realized I've never intentionally used the vasari starbase in it's intended purpose of an antistarbase weapon. If I have the fleet to take out out the ships in the enemy gravwell, then my fleet can take out the sb, too.
What am I missing here?
If you're fighting the AI, you won't understand the fustration of a TEC SB detonating and all your frigates and cruisers blown up and your Capships heavily damaged. The Orkulus can take that damage and still fight off the enemy fleet.
I just engineered a situation in my current game to attack an upgraded argonev with an orkulus. I still had to jump my fleet in to protect the orkulus while it was upgrading it's defenses. Building it and upgrading it took what seemed an eternity, more like 6-8 minutes, i guess? Then it took just as long to kill the argonev, even though it was upgraded to only ~12k hull. The only thing in the orkulus corner is that once the sb was actually dead, it still had all of its hull and ~5% of its shield.
That seems like a very long time to tie up my fleet, since the orkulus on it's own I think is still vulnerable to large fleets.
vasari aren't really strong at siege. the orkulus is their prime anti-sb weapon, but i think the devs mainly intended hit and run. i am going to propose the kostura as a possibility to go around. because it is the only one of the 3 super weapons that does not require multiple prior research.
Once you've taken out a starbase with your orkulus, you then already have a (mobile) upgraded starbase at the world in question. That has to count for something.
Once that orkulus is fully upgraded right it chews on large fleets
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