kamikaze (class 1 ship) Under self destruction it deals 35 damage to one enemy ship, but also destroys two more ships of your own fleet. (caution! self destruction!) Attack/life: 35/1 Manpower: 1 Researchtime: 1 d Buildingtime: 11 h human-Technology Needed research: fanatic warfare Battle details: fights (battle engine syntax: f) modifies LP by -5000 of 2 ships of any ship-type in your own fleet in the same class, there are no known ships and buildings that survive this effect. battlemessage: "kamikaze destroys ... ships" (battle engine syntax: obliterate,self,2,this,all,kamikaze destroys) self destructs! (battle engine syntax: sd)   —> Forum Topic about this ship Metody I The Evil: It acts in the class it's fighting, so if the enemy has no class1 it's doing it's mission in the upper classes... That's the only way to gain points from it :)23 darklim: "battle details:fights (battle engine syntax: f) modifies AP/LP by 0/-1100 of 2 ships of any ship-type in your own fleet in the same class battlemessage: "kamikaze destroys ... ships" (battle engine syntax: mod,self,2,this,all,+,0,-1100,kamikaze destroys) self destructs! (battle engine syntax: sd)" This mean the Kamikaze destroy 4 of your own ships? JaM: No the first one is the english translation or discription of the battlesyntax. You spammed this forum since May and you don't know that. :)20 Or did you thought every ship fougt twice because it say fights and it has the f command. Or this ship self destructs twice :)19 discription: fights syntax: f discription: modifies AP/LP by 0/-1100 of 2 ships of any ship-type in your own fleet in the same class message: "kamikaze destroys ... ships" syntax: mod,self,2,this,all,+,0,-1100,kamikaze destroys discription: self destructs! syntax: sd Now understand it? darklim: Ah, Thanks JaM :)23 The battly syntax is a bit confusing :)20 _________________ Joined in May 15, 2003 and got a lot of post. I'm the greatest spammer of Space Trace Forum. But i think it are a "bug" man_mod: The Kamikaze is a very destructive ship but as with other Self destructing ships should be used with caution. Due to it's immense fire power of 35ap as a class 1 ship the kamikaze is best used to fight against the higher classes ideally class 3 or 4, as most of these have higher lp than 35. So the best use for them is to keep them in a secondary(or third) fleet and by themselves to be used after you have eliminated the enemy's class 1 and 2. This due to the Self destuctive behavior of the ship. For every enemy ship a Kamikaze attacks, it will destroy itself and a further 2 more random class 1 ships in your own fleet. So it is strongly advised that you do not use this ship to fight in it's own class, as for every enemy class 1 you will destroy (+(1) point) you will lose 3 kamikaze (-3 points) The kamikaze can be used against class 2, but with minimal postive results. Other class 1 ships can make a much more posative score for this job. Here is an example of the profit of attacking class 3. " your class 1 vs enemy class 3 : you: 200 kamikaze (35/1, 1 MP) enemy: 14 cruisers (100/100, 60 MP) 42 kamikaze destroy 84 ships 42 kamikaze vs 14 cruisers 14 cruisers vs 14 kamikaze losses: you : 140 kamikaze enemy : 14 cruisers score in this subbattle: 700" So your calculation for this battle should be done as such : 14 (amount of cruisers) x 3 (kamikazes needed to destroy 1 cruiser) 42 x 3 (kamekazes self destructing per cruiser) destroyed) + 14 (amount of cruisers) = 140 That is the construction of the calculation. The sum fortunatly can be simplified to 14 x 10. (for cruisers) for attacking other class 3/4 ships/buildings the calculation should be corrected accordingly. You should always take a few extra kamikazes then calculated to compensate for the random battle order (who shoots first). It's also a good idea to use Commando Fighters along with kamikazes as it will double their firepower to 70/1 when activated. the best way to counter kamikaze is with C1 killers such as the Cyclops or the Spectre. Another way is simply to attack them with standard fighters. admin: the kamikaze should get the kill syntax instead of -1100LP. cause it should kill 2 of your ships in any case, no effect should counter this

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