Feazanthia wrote:A MIRV-style (or in this case, a MIV) will ultimately not be your best bet at getting around an enemy's point-defense. However, missile busses in space combat have a variety of uses. For instance, I use multiple launch vehicles to carry my attack missiles great distances (because of my seemingly insane love of light-second plus combat ranges). One of my capital-sized launch vehicles will carry around ten missiles (mixed between my Kuun-Lamaat attack missiles, my Osheklam-Koya EM warfare drones, and Yorlastu-Lamaat control platforms) each at a high linear acceleration. Once it's built up sufficient velocity, and once it reaches its deployment site, the launch vehicle will deploy its missiles and then go ballistic at the target. The missiles themselves are designed with a higher priority on RCS rather than linear acceleration, as they already have a ton of velocity from the launch vehicle, and are far better adapted to randomwalking and dodging incoming PDS fire until they reach their attack ranges and can start pounding lasers into the enemy or overloading his sensors.
This approach gives my weapons systems a much greater degree of flexibility and suits my style of extreme range combat much better than if I just went with large missiles.
I tend to supplement that with a variety of specialist payloads specifically designed to provide the incoming missiles with their own PD against interception, both with SEAD weapons designed to target anything that lights them up, and cluster laser style weapons that directly engage interceptor missiles; these provide blocking units for anti-ship payloads with high kill ratio wardheads.
