do you think that Star Wars tactics like the Marg Sabl closure maneuver and the Ackbar slash could work in Battlestar Galactica deadlock?

@@brettglover135 No clue, never played Deadlock, I just like BSG ... I have the game, just not played until now.

You can send them away to attack or defend something else, other than that not really.

no

no

just started playing the game, damn are Revenants beasts when you only have an early game fleet. Had a mission with two of them, they were wrecking Adamants within seconds

@@nessa-parmentier Yeah, you really gotta concentrate your fire to take 'em out ASAP. My advice, group your Adamants into a tight wall formation, 2 or 3 at a time, equip them with torpedoes and Focus Fire onto a single target. There's very little that can effectively stand up against the Adamant Wall of Death XD

@@nessa-parmentier i ran into a cylon fleet with 3 revenants, 3 talons, and 1 nemesis. that day i lost my third artemis battlestar but managed to kill all but the 3 talons

that’s because the ai doesn’t like using tactical jump to do much other than run or dodge missiles. as a player you can easily by pass a battle star’s flak wall with its tactical jump

Yeah, maybe if missiles had a chance of getting through flak, like the higher your defense the lower percentage chance of it getting through but it still has a chance, cause right now flak just makes most cylon ships laughable especially ones with no guns and only missiles

No he’s using them wrong. It’s like a small art. The best guns are on the top.

take away the light guns and replace them with 1 1/2 times as many heavy guns, with a flak field to make the Jupiter mk2 proud, and you've got the Valkyrie class

The underbelly of the Valkyrie is the weakest part

It’s all ‘bout that Skirmish #3, man!

It does feel a bit of an exaggeration in this game how utterly impenetrable flak shields are when boosted by posture. We could theoretically give whatever excuse we wanted - but I think the most realistic one is that, in an actual scenario of this magnitude, there would be at least a couple missiles that get through, and ammunition to deploy flak would not be infinite. But those are sort of the things you have to allow leeway for because game logic. If it was 100% fully faithful to reality, it’s not, because at least a small majority of the civilian ships, even in the reimagined Galactica, have nothing to arrest their own momentum. If it was 100% faithful to the show, then I highly doubt they’d want to just run the clock and hope that the Basestars just.. run out of missiles eventually, whilst a much larger amount of Raiders use overwhelming numbers to at least put a heavy dent in Viper numbers, or strategically take out a ship’s FTL, etc. There’s a lot of possibilities.

Hahahahaha.... no he waited till they spend all of their missiles. Then he waited for the enemy fighters to get closer. Cause the vipers must have been spend dealing with the overwhelming numbers of raiders. When they were all in one spot attacking the mercury he opened up on the raiders with flak. Destroying them all with the snap of a finger.... you are just a bad observer

Turn based.

Jup, on their own the modern basestars are laughably easy to counter

Honestly I find that with modern basestars they play more similar to a cratus than an argos, you wanna close the gap with your ftl jump and combine your two instant reload munition slots with hacking and overwhelming fighters. The way they are shown in the tv show, combined with the lack of guns, makes most people try to play long range, but ironically you want to do the opposite and charge in immediately. Its basically a cratus with a phobos FTL jump, and cerberus worth of squadrons in the pocket. Jump in turn 1 and unleash missiles, fighters, and hacking to just bury fleets, and jump away and recall when they get too beat up. Then repeat once hull repair is good enough.

For balance there should be 2 flak modes. One only with the PDS that would be overwhelmed more easily but allowed to fire the main guns through it and one that was like the actual but disabled the main guns for ship to ship combat focusing them por flak (like the Galactica does in the show everytime it's cornered)

some of my favourite fleets involve using the minerva to spam missiles, flak and fighters all at once. and close in for the kill when the main threats are neutralized. so versatile these buggers.

@@Airwolf-lm9cm There's a reason the galactica was able to last so long against them.

Battlestars can still fire their main artillery while keeping up a flak barrier (as evident by the Resurrection Ship battle, during the Captain's Hand episode when the Pegasus gets ambushed, the Ionian Nebula battle, and the battle of the Colony). The main batteries can contribute to a flak barrier, but aren't the primary source of it. With the Mercury-class, they have their AAA concealed between their armor plating (most likely a standard feature aboard Battlestars, but the Mercury was they only one that that's mentioned on).

@@Mobius_118 During the Resurrection Ship battle, Adama orders a section of his main battery to stop firing flack and start firing at the base ship (when he orders batteries A through E to 'switch to salvo fire'). Cain puts down his flack field and orders ALL his batteries to fire offensively (you actually start seeing Pegasus rocking and taking more hits after this). Both battlestars obviously keep up their smaller AAA fire. During The Captains Hand, Adama jr. only orders the bow battery, her 86 inch forward cannons that do not even fire flack, to engage the base ships. All the rest of her guns are still devoted to flack. During the Ionan Nebula and Colony battles, Galacticas main battery was firing completely defensive.

@@Debbiebabe69 A Battlestar has two types of AAA: Long range which is what their main guns fire and CIWS which is what's shown here. Even if the CIWS is active, the main guns are free to engage enemy capital ships. The primary contributor to CIWS for the Galactica is the smaller guns mounted on the sides of the flight pods (which is why you lose the secondary guns in game when you turn on flak) as well as several guns that are never shown on the CGI model. The Pegasus has guns concealed between its armor plates which is how it can produce a flak barrier above and below itself despite all of its main guns being mounted either on the bow or the sides with no ability to aim up. - During the Resurrection Ship battle, you still see bursts of flak from both Battlestars even after the order is given to switch the secondary batteries to full attack mode, though not as concentrated as they were previously (the Galactica even intercepts 4-5 missiles in the shot right after that line). - During the Captain's Hand, Lee fires the turrets mounted above the Pegasus's main guns in conjunction all the while the Pegasus is still producing a flak barrier. - During the Colony battle, the Galactica's main guns were firing normal anti-capital shells at the Colony's defenses while maintaining a flak barrier with its secondary batteries and AAA.

@@Mobius_118 Everything I have read about the BSG ships says the CIWS fires kinetic shells, not flak.

@@Debbiebabe69 It's not to unrealistic for them to swap between proximity/timed explosive and kinetic shells (which is pretty much what happens with the secondary batteries in Deadlock when you turn on flak).

They send out all their raiders and expend all their nukes and missiles.

IMHO the worst thing about it is the fact that you can't roll the ships (e.g. uspside down)

@@karolbielen2090 yeah

In the first versions of the game it didn't but after a patch it does minimal damage but over time It can destroy a ship.

@@daniell89 Thanks!!!

@@croaker260 It significantly damages civilian ships and will eventually destroy them, as Daniel L said. This especially is true in the Anabasis game mode. You might think that flakking civilian ships would protect them from incoming munition barrages, but in fact, you'll end up killing the civilians you are trying to protect.

Debris mines also damage capital ships (and the civilian ships of course as well)

Almost impossible with 1 valkyrie , you might win 1 with many tries but easily, hell no.

You'd get swarmed by raiders, unless you purposefully gimped thier strike loadout.

Maybe if you gave them prototype raiders and an emp or something. With Even Cluster nukes and Modern raiders, it's possible to beat them with just 3 Valkyries. It *Might* be possible with two but definitely not one. In fact it took me a few tries to do it with 3, as the raiders would overwhelm my ships until I took advantage of the stupid ai and the cylon nukes. Edit: You can definitely do it easily with two, I just did. Though I still doubt it's possible with one.