Systems Specialists

[Hypertonic]

System Specialist is actually almost game-breakingly overpowered except when the MS is tracked. The rest of the time I just stack engine boosting + one Diamond or ECM and have ships flying 2000-4000 speed with MD-1. Anything without laser weapons can't even hit them. Anything with laser weapons can't do significant damage. At +2500 speed you don't even need ECM because missiles can't go that fast. Scripts that track the MS or require it to be exposed are the only flaw with this tactic.

[Bany]

So, what ship would be basicaly high end choise for experienced System Specialist?



Trident T Fifth Generation Special Purpose Fighter 750 700 900 270 4 3 0 1
Trident Fourth Generation Special Purpose Fighter 450 580 900 250 4 3 0 1
Cheetah Fourth Generation Special Purpose Fighter 450 550 1000 260 4 2 0 2

For me Cheetach is kindof better to play with, as using experienced specialis makes the durability not so crucial. And having at you disposal another missle bay to use (especialy against those small planty and nasty berserkers) makes this ship is much more versatile then Tridents. What do You think?

[Nanaki]

I cant really answer this question definitively, since I use my own customised skill tree, but I do find that my attempts to have combined arms combat/support ships have tended to end in failure, the support ships simply dont provide enough support to make up for the loss of a combat ship. A lot of this has to do with the fact that the hp/sec regen of a support ship does not match the dps/sec of an equivilant combat ship. Thus, your better off just going pure combat ships as, while your slightly less durable, your DPS will be much higher so you will likely be ending fights before durability becomes an issue.

Thus, the best trees would likely be Gunners or Pilots. Missiles have great burst damage, but once you blow through the munitions (and missile ships in star wolves have little ammunition capacity) your a sitting duck while a gunner can pretty much shoot until he is destroyed.

As for the best ships, in Star Wolves 3, the best ships are, by far, the Templar variants.