Hi, all.
After numerous research and careful reading, I have found the truth about Frigates.
Newer players do not know the truth, think it's a waste of time to research something that is worse than a corvette at ship to ship combat.
Well that may be true(Corv. 8.5 DMG Maxed out, Frig 8.0 Dmg maxed out), they are missing the big picture.
SAMs are part of the meta triangle(According to Nelva's website. If you don't understand french, maybe just dm Opulon. DO NOT translate it using google translate. It will lead to the national guard is an interesting bad unit thing), just because they are anti fixed wing. SAMs do 0 DMG to ground units/naval/helis.
All the experienced players on the forum, seem to like Frigates for no apparent reason. Why?
Because Frigates fill multiple roles. They are basically SAMs that can float, MRLs that move 2-3x faster than normal, and corvettes with extra range and HP.
This is the Truth that the experienced players do not want to tell you.
Many new players think, "Heck, if someone uses SF on my Destroyers, welp my destroyers have a lot of HP and some defensive air damage and SF only deal 2 damage anyway, wutever."
Frigates can defend against missiles. But the main thing is that, you can basically "turn off" an enemy airport at a coastal city.
Send a task force of level 4 frigs over and literally dock.
Enemy flying in MRLs? Shot down. Enemy trying to fly troops away from city? shot down.
Enemy sending jets to kill you? Make sure to record that on video.*Enemy uses worst unit possible, sends ASF to deal 0.5 dmg to Frigate*
Take something else into consideration.
A cruiser costs 2x more than a Frigate(resource wise).
Therefore, if you spam enough Frigs, even larger surface vessels like destroyers and cruisers will not be able to destroy your task force, because they do not outrange you, and resource wise they do not deal more damage.
There is one ultimate frigate killer... But that's a story for another day.
Hope you enjoyed reading! Please leave your thoughts in the comments below.
@Opulon Your meta triangle should be a meta SQUARE!
After numerous research and careful reading, I have found the truth about Frigates.
Newer players do not know the truth, think it's a waste of time to research something that is worse than a corvette at ship to ship combat.
Well that may be true(Corv. 8.5 DMG Maxed out, Frig 8.0 Dmg maxed out), they are missing the big picture.
SAMs are part of the meta triangle(According to Nelva's website. If you don't understand french, maybe just dm Opulon. DO NOT translate it using google translate. It will lead to the national guard is an interesting bad unit thing), just because they are anti fixed wing. SAMs do 0 DMG to ground units/naval/helis.
All the experienced players on the forum, seem to like Frigates for no apparent reason. Why?
Because Frigates fill multiple roles. They are basically SAMs that can float, MRLs that move 2-3x faster than normal, and corvettes with extra range and HP.
This is the Truth that the experienced players do not want to tell you.
Many new players think, "Heck, if someone uses SF on my Destroyers, welp my destroyers have a lot of HP and some defensive air damage and SF only deal 2 damage anyway, wutever."
Frigates can defend against missiles. But the main thing is that, you can basically "turn off" an enemy airport at a coastal city.
Send a task force of level 4 frigs over and literally dock.
Enemy flying in MRLs? Shot down. Enemy trying to fly troops away from city? shot down.
Enemy sending jets to kill you? Make sure to record that on video.*Enemy uses worst unit possible, sends ASF to deal 0.5 dmg to Frigate*
Take something else into consideration.
A cruiser costs 2x more than a Frigate(resource wise).
Therefore, if you spam enough Frigs, even larger surface vessels like destroyers and cruisers will not be able to destroy your task force, because they do not outrange you, and resource wise they do not deal more damage.
There is one ultimate frigate killer... But that's a story for another day.
Hope you enjoyed reading! Please leave your thoughts in the comments below.
@Opulon Your meta triangle should be a meta SQUARE!
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