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日本語Small fighter
The cheapest combat ship: quick to build, quick to launch and a serious threat in large numbers.
The small fighter is the first combat ship you can build – you only need weapons factory level 1 and Rocket engine level 1. It costs little, has a short setup time and accelerates hard.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + Plenty of firepower for its price.
- + Short setup time and strong acceleration: on short trips no combat ship is faster.
- – Tiny shield and thin hull: on its own it can barely take a hit.
- – Hardly any cargo space, so you need freighters for the loot.
Early in the game it forms your first attack fleet against weakly defended planets. It fights a duel with the Light graviton cannon: it deals bonus damage to that cannon, and the cannon deals bonus damage to it. Later it pays off mainly in large numbers, whenever you need a lot of firepower for few resources.
Background
The small fighter was designed to be compact. It doesn't take long to build them and costs almost nothing at all: A major advantage when trying to build up a large fleet at the beginning of the game. It has a very high speed but its low shields make it vulnerable against light graviton cannons. Heavy graviton cannons have problems while encountering small fighters, this is due to the agility of the fighter.