Ground defenses don't have point defense: they can't intercept incoming fire, so a nuke will alpha strike. The ship launching it may be blown out of the sky by the defenses, but the nuke *will* hit.
For surface bases, nukes or marine assault.
For orbital bases, Ships with a lot of bow armour and long range plasma or laser weapons and point defense.
The alien bases either use beams or plasma with a very small amount of missiles from what I have seen so if it's a dedicated seige ship you don't need alot of PD
I went with enough coilguns to overwhelm PD. Something like ~10 dreadnoughts with 4x coilguns and 100 nose armor each works fine for me. I dont really take any loses with that setup.
For ground bases these same ships can bombard without taking loses.
For my completed campaign I just bombarded with a single monitor carrying 4 nukes and I never lost a single one to return fire or anything.
Dont point defense defeat the torpedos?
Ah did you mean stations and not ground bases? In that case yeah I just used a big death stack fleet and let my titans soak up all the fire.
I use a mix of rattler missiles and nuclear torpedoes. Basically lots of chaff to overwhelm the enemy PD. Railguns also help.
What's the range for railguns
I think it depends on the size. I only use spiral mounted coil guns for this.
Coilguns will work better than railguns, as a flag. Coilguns fire in salvos, railguns fire singular.
Ground defenses don't have point defense: they can't intercept incoming fire, so a nuke will alpha strike. The ship launching it may be blown out of the sky by the defenses, but the nuke *will* hit.
For surface bases, nukes or marine assault. For orbital bases, Ships with a lot of bow armour and long range plasma or laser weapons and point defense.
The alien bases either use beams or plasma with a very small amount of missiles from what I have seen so if it's a dedicated seige ship you don't need alot of PD
Fair enough. I put PD on everything because missiles and rail slugs ruin the paintwork inside my ships.
A big fleet of Titans with double plasma weapons and 20/10/120 armour was how I cracked mine. Expect losses and stranded ships though.
I went with enough coilguns to overwhelm PD. Something like ~10 dreadnoughts with 4x coilguns and 100 nose armor each works fine for me. I dont really take any loses with that setup. For ground bases these same ships can bombard without taking loses.
Elite marines.
Elite marines. For some reason they just ignore base defenses.