AI War:Vampire Claw

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Close-combat ship that repairs itself when it damages enemies. Unless issued a specific command by its controller, it will automatically attack nearby enemies.

Base Stats

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Ammo Type	Armor Type	Immunities	Damage Bonuses
Fusion Cutter	Refractive	Missile Ammo Tractor Beams Force Fields	3 Medium, 3 Artillery, 3 Neutron, 0.3 Command-Grade, 3 Polycrystal

Mark	Ship Cap	Damage	Attack Range	Reload	Health	Armor	Speed	Engine Health	Single Ship DPS	Ship Cap DPS	Abilities
I	58	3,400	0	1 sec	140,000	0	108	Inf	3,400 dmg/sec	197,200 dmg/sec	Cloaking Vampirism Regen Time 01:30 Target Seek Range 5,000 Armor Piercing 10,000
II	52	6,800	0	1 sec	280,000	0	108	Inf	6,800 dmg/sec	353,600 dmg/sec	Cloaking Vampirism Regen Time 01:30 Target Seek Range 5,000 Armor Piercing 10,000
III	46	10,200	0	1 sec	420,000	0	108	Inf	10,200 dmg/sec	469,200 dmg/sec	Cloaking Vampirism Regen Time 01:30 Target Seek Range 5,000 Armor Piercing 10,000
IV	41	13,600	0	1 sec	560,000	0	108	Inf	13,600 dmg/sec	557,600 dmg/sec	Cloaking Vampirism Regen Time 01:30 Target Seek Range 5,000 Armor Piercing 10,000
V	29	17,000	0	1 sec	700,000	0	108	Inf	17,000 dmg/sec	493,000 dmg/sec	Cloaking Vampirism Regen Time 01:30 Target Seek Range 5,000 Armor Piercing 10,000

Mark	Knowledge	Metal Cost	Crystal Cost	Total Cost	Energy Cost	Build Time	Cap Metal Cost	Cap Crystal Cost	Cap Total Cost	Cap Energy Cost	Ship Cap Build Time
I	--	240	200	440	160	00:00:02	13,920	11,600	25,520	9,280	00:01:56
II	2,500	480	400	880	320	00:00:04	24,960	20,800	45,760	16,640	00:03:28
III	6,000	960	800	1,760	320	00:00:08	44,160	36,800	80,960	14,720	00:06:08
IV	Adv Fac	1,440	1,200	2,640	320	00:00:12	59,040	49,200	108,240	13,120	00:08:12
V	Core Fab	1,920	1,600	3,520	320	00:00:16	55,680	46,400	102,080	9,280	00:07:44

How to use in your fleet

This cloaked melee-unit offers a number of interesting benefits. They can be used to snipe fleet-ships and most Guardians under a Force Field, and can creep up to long-range ships undetected, especially the pesky ones with a retreat range (although one should keep their uncloaked ships away as a lure). Its Missile-immunity is perfect against Missile Frigates and saves attrition from Missile-based guardposts on AI planets.

The inability of Vampire Claws to damage guardposts and starships is an Achilles heel, when compared to Vorticular Cutlasses. Think of these as assassins to the Cutlass barbarians.

How to counter when in the AI fleet

Countering Vampire Claws is a very specific job. This is a ship type that requires the use of both Tachyon Emitters and Gravity Turrets stationed at hostile wormholes, combined with defenses that give Refractive bonuses (e.g. Laser Turrets and Flak Turrets). Note that none of the triangle ships are effective counters as Missile Frigates cannot hurt them, so keeping the main wave from penetrating your static defenses will be important.

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