The problem with the Antorak as a disrupting capital ship is that it's best used with a small harass force, not to accompany your main fleet.  Disruption effects don't fit with its other attributes, and on its own phase out hull is probably the least impressive disrupt in the game.

You know I'm watching...

The marauder is basically a scout capital ship, the idea is cool, but when it comes down to who has the biggest guns and strongest abilities it sinks back to its room and cries cause nobody loves it anymore...

I wouldn't do that tho. I don't wana sound all knowing or anything. But it really doesn't take much of the stuff on the average heavy fortified planet (taking there is some fleet there else you wouldn't just skip it) to take out that marauder and leave you stranded halfway across the well.

In this case I haven't even mentioned ships acting gay when they line up for phase jump so that by the time you're fleet lines up the ability has worked out and is still in cooldown.

Grtz,
[_]-Flipkik

You right if it was a passive ability it would be near evil!

I personaly think not such a huge nerf of the effects of distort gravity would be needed to make it passive. Cause what I said about this ship earlier still counts. It's easy to kill so just kill the marauder and you've got a fleet stranded on a well cuz of PJI's.

Also the big idea after hit and run is to strike (favorably in surprise) and do a maximal amount of damage with a minimal amount of losses to after that just dissapear again. This is really really hard in sins even if you would have a descent marauder. Shooting at enemy fleet to kill stuff turning loading phase jump etc will get you more losses than the enemy unless you have a stronger fleet... In which case hit and run isn't the thing you should be doing. Then how about hitting economic planets or unprotected planets of the enemy. Most frontier planets will have some sort of defense and striking them with enough force do do something will often require you to weaken you're front which would mean the enemy need just strike you're front to force you to strike back.

Okay i can see hit and run working tho if you can spare the ships to do it and the resources to buy the cap with to go strike somewhere that is way past your front with the other player but then again is the damage they can do worth the price you're paying? Do you really need a marauder for that?

Also what about a weakened speed buff and the ability to not get starbase penalties for jumping out of their grav well? k might be bit to powerfull but it does suit the vasari who by storryline would likely just skip things that don't go down fast and move on.

Grtz,
Flipkik

IF you use lfs (note the big "if") it will more than likely be in the late game as advent, just for the anitmatter transfer ability, or in the ealry game to help your first cap colonize.

Oh F#ck it it's a fixit thread.

Carrier based hit-and-run strats with bombers can be effective against lightly defended resource worlds, and bombers will take out structures much faster than a marauder. You could have both, but i have not tried it or seen it done.

So, no, you don't really need a marauder for that.

Marauders cannot take out structures fast enough to cripple an economy and they have very little place in a combat fleet... They are support ships through and through and they even suck at that.

I think a redesign, not a rebalance, is in order.

It should be able to slow down enemy ships, allowing it to get away. You could use two marauders, one to attack a planet and another in another grav well to slow down reinforcements.

It should be able to kill the population of a planet, if not the planet's health.

Suspend trade, something like embargo.

The Phase lane ability is good, but getting a marauder to lv 6 is hard.

Repulse would actually be a good ability for this ship...