Escort-Ships

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In my last game under B1.1-2 i noticed the AI would escort some of their Transports with "Escort"-Ships and some not.
The number of unescorted transports dropped as the game proceeded.
However, they only used that one ship-type called "Escort" for its namegiven purpose.

This ship was far behind the ships the AI used for its attack fleets. They all had 2 Beam-Attack and nothing else while other ships of that AI came with 10 or more beam-attack plus some defenses too.

Easyly counterable by some shield and any type of weapon. A medium hull with 2 shields, 1 Plasma and everything left reserved for engines could wipe several Transport+Escort-Fleets a turn before it was attacked by one of their real fleets.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Escorts are designed to be a deterrant. They won't escort if they can't see you, and if they can they'll use fairly weak ships designed to put you off using crappy fighters to wipe them out.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
escorts are mostly so you cant pop transports with an "raider" cargo hold. big engines, sensors and one attack
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well, they kinde rendered my Tranniekiller-Design worthless but they weren't up to do something to help against my Tranniekiller 2-Design with less engines but some shields instead.

In the end I stil lost but the AI could have won with far less casualities by not having so many un- or poorly defended Transports hang around in open space.

I mean, really, the whole borderline was flooded with Transports waitin for their fleets to wipe out my defenses.