The modules of this cruiser are all standard modules. The bow uses a huge gun module, the central core is a salvo module, and the stern is also a salvo module. There are no missiles and hangar modules.
The disadvantage is that the combat effectiveness is not as good as the missile and hangar module. The advantage is that the maintenance cost is low. After all, it only requires energy blocks, and the alloy warheads used in the electromagnetic gun do not take up much space.
As soon as the battleship came out, Fang Chen happily moved his command headquarters to the cruiser.
Although it is not as fast as a destroyer, this is a cruiser. The hull armor and shields are thick enough, and it has a 200% speed bonus. His cruiser is much faster than other people's destroyers.
With a cruiser in hand, Fang Chen could implement many tactics, and his combat effectiveness was qualitatively improved.
He had traveled at sub-light speed during the previous journey, relying on his super talent to forcefully penetrate the interception system of wild monsters or NPC forces along the way. He did not dare to stop and fly normally because he was not strong enough to pass.
It's different now. There is a cruiser that can withstand enough attacks, and now it can slowly kill it all the way.
There are countless wild monsters along the way. If you kill them along the way, you will definitely be able to level up your skills.
His basic naval command skill is now at LV15. According to the rules, when it reaches LV20, it is estimated that the talent of the son of the stars will be upgraded to LV2, and his strength will become stronger by then.
It was easy to improve this skill before level 10. After level 10, it requires a huge increase in experience and the speed of improvement plummets. It has only been after so many battles that it has been upgraded to level 15.
Another week later, the battleship crossed the galaxy and appeared on the edge of an unfamiliar galaxy. It passed through the vast nebula and dust on the periphery of the galaxy at sub-light speed and arrived outside the galaxy's gravity well.
After arriving here, the fleet entered a normal navigation state and slowly sailed into the galaxy's gravity well.
As soon as they entered, they happened to see a planet at the very edge of the galaxy orbiting this side. The picture scanned by the battleship radar showed that there was a star ring in the orbit of the planet, two satellites, and one of the satellites. There is a wild monster base with many warships parked on the edge.
Fang Chen took a serious look at the size of the base and the size of the anchored fleet, and held his chin in thought.
"You can fight!"
This base is not very big. There are more than two hundred battleships parked around it, only a dozen cruisers and no battleships.
Generally, wild monsters of this type of base will 100% produce battleship blueprints, but the explosion rate and blueprint technology level will not be too high.
In the market, a large part of T1 and T2 level blueprints are obtained by teams jointly encircling and suppressing these bases.
That is to say, you can test the combat effectiveness of the cruiser, and you can gain something and do it.
Fang Chen lined up the fleet and slowly advanced towards the base. Soon they entered the enemy's warning range. A fleet consisting of 4 cruisers, 20 destroyers and 110 frigates sailed out from the base. It looked like I want to start a wild battle with him.
This was exactly what he wanted, immediately slowing down the fleet and making the distance between the wild monster fleet and the base farther.
He did not alert the enemy, and did not launch an attack after the enemy entered the triple bonus range. He continued to approach, opened the light curtain, marked the enemy ships one by one, analyzed the enemy's warship model and attributes, and then allocated firepower.
When he entered the shooting range, he waved his hand and ordered:
"Fire!"
In an instant, hundreds of laser beams of different sizes pierced the void, focusing on several targets.
"boom!"
A total of 71 large laser cannons hit a slightly advancing destroyer at the same time. The powerful firepower broke through the destroyer's shield on the spot, tearing open the armor and exposing the hull.
The firepower is still insufficient, but it is not a big problem. This wave of concentrated fire has broken the shield and tore away the armor. The remaining hull cannot withstand the second round of concentrated fire.
Fang Chen calmly ordered the fleet to move sideways to widen the distance. After 20 seconds, the second round of concentrated fire hit the same target again, turning the target destroyer into a fireball on the spot.
Then the fleet continued to pull away, and with its absolute advantages of three times the speed, three times the battleship starting speed, three times the attack power and three times the range, it pulled the fleet to fly its kite.
Because he controlled the speed and distance of the fleet and did not show it too outrageously, the enemy fleet commander did not realize it at first and still ordered the pursuit.
But it was not until five destroyers and more than 30 frigates were destroyed by hanging, and the space fighters released by only one hangar cruiser were all intercepted and unable to defeat the opponent, that they reacted and prepared to retreat, but the retreat would also be attacked. After chasing them all the way until they escaped back to the base, they were missing five destroyers and more than thirty frigates.
Moreover, there is no point in escaping back to the base. Without the battleship's main gun with ultra-long range, the base's missiles and space fighters alone are helpless.
The missiles and space fighters of these wild monsters were either T2 or T3. Their own technology was suppressed, and the commander's skill bonus was extremely low. In total, nearly a thousand space fighters rushed over, but he was firmly blocked by him.
The combat effectiveness of the wild monsters' space fighters is not comparable to the player fleet of the Scarlet Pioneer Society that they dealt with before.
The close-defense weapons of the three destroyers and eighteen frigates opened fire with all their strength, and the hit rate was very high.
Fang Chen relied on a cruiser and three destroyers with a total of 71 large laser cannons. With three times the range, he stayed far beyond the reach of the base and continued bombarding.
At this time, the advantages of the conventional cruiser module are revealed. Although it does not have the longer range and stronger power of the missile, the missile takes up too much space, and a cruiser has limited accommodation and limited combat time.
It does not have the ultra-long combat radius of a space fighter, but it also does not have the energy loss and risk of being easily destroyed like a space fighter.
If the enemy doesn't come out, bombard them from a distance. If they do, retreat and fly kites at a distance.
After going back and forth many times, he managed to smash the base defenders one by one without losing a single battleship, until finally the base was reduced to dust. Fang Chen released two industrial ships and began to salvage the wreckage and loot.
The remains are just that, not much, so they can only be re-melted into alloys.
The main reason is that a lot of trophies were harvested from this battle. From a distance, the radar scanned several groups of trophy light balls in the base.
After the industrial ship picked them up one by one and sent them to the command bridge, looking at the eleven trophy light balls in front of him, Fang Chen rubbed his hands excitedly and started to open them.
Opening them one by one starting from the smallest, each piece of loot appeared in front of him.
Various accessory blueprints, common skill chips, or pirate loot boxes are also a type of gambling box.
Occasionally, there are complete blueprints of battleships, either T1 or T2. The level is not high, but Fang Chen doesn't care.
Does he lack a high-level blueprint?
There is no shortage, he has the universe in his hand to upgrade, but what he lacks is the blueprint, no matter what level he is.
It wasn't until the last three large loot boxes were opened that two good things finally came out that made Fang Chen's eyes light up.
