I’m not sure if this has come up as an issue or not but I just used the elite frigate for first time and it is definitely broken and changes the game in a major way. The fact that they can’t be stacked is what makes them even more broken.
In my current game I went with maxed frigates and maxed cruisers a total of 16 - half frigates and half cruisers. I put them in stacks of 4 with the fifth elite frigate to make stacks of 5. Doing that you can have all 4 stacks in the exact same spot in the ocean so all I have to do is just send them on their merry way, declare war and put up aggressive attack control. It is like stacking 20 ships without getting any debuff penalty. They attack at the same time and the anti air goes off at the same time.
damage to surface vessels = 233
Damage to subs = 116
Anti air against fighters and bombers = 150
Against helicopters = 63
Each stack has enough missile defence themselves so not important
Damage against soft land units = 74
Damage against hard land units = 55
I know there was plans to make them stackable but I’m not sure if aircraft carrier is stackable or not because it would have the same issue.
you can make some deadly stacks if you go all destroyers or all cruisers with elite frigate in each stack
In my current game I went with maxed frigates and maxed cruisers a total of 16 - half frigates and half cruisers. I put them in stacks of 4 with the fifth elite frigate to make stacks of 5. Doing that you can have all 4 stacks in the exact same spot in the ocean so all I have to do is just send them on their merry way, declare war and put up aggressive attack control. It is like stacking 20 ships without getting any debuff penalty. They attack at the same time and the anti air goes off at the same time.
damage to surface vessels = 233
Damage to subs = 116
Anti air against fighters and bombers = 150
Against helicopters = 63
Each stack has enough missile defence themselves so not important
Damage against soft land units = 74
Damage against hard land units = 55
I know there was plans to make them stackable but I’m not sure if aircraft carrier is stackable or not because it would have the same issue.
you can make some deadly stacks if you go all destroyers or all cruisers with elite frigate in each stack