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GameGuides.com Presents Homeworld Game Guide

	Introduction Ship Management Resource Collection Movement & Combat Unit Strategies Combat Resource/Specialty Walk-through Multiplayer

Ion Cannon Frigate
Classification: Frigate
Race: Kushan/Taiidan
Cost: 650 RUs

Ion cannon frigates are important support to capital ships in assaults against your opponent's capital ships. The ion cannon frigates are much too slow to counter squads of strike craft and are best used against larger, more durable capital ships. Micromanaging these extremely sluggish ships is virtually impossible. Don't attempt to assign them different targets in the heat of a battle. Concentrate the firepower on a single enemy capital ship and continue to pound away until it's destroyed. Don't move the ion cannon frigates against anything attacking the ion cannon frigate, unless it's close to your original target. The ion cannon frigate simply takes too long to move and adjust its target.

The perfect counters to ion cannon frigates are strike craft, offensive corvettes, and salvage corvettes. The ion cannon frigates simply can't keep up with the speedy craft, and it's extremely easy to rip apart their hull armor without retaliation. The ion cannon frigate coverage is horrible; its single beam just can't counter fast craft. Further, salvage corvettes have an easy time capturing ion cannon frigates because their beam only fires from the forward section. If you bring in the salvage corvettes from any other side (preferably the rear), you'll have little trouble snagging the ion cannon frigate.

Offensively, the most important thing to do with your ion cannon frigates is to assign them to the same Ctrl group. This way, you can quickly select the group and attack the same target. Make sure the target is an important capital ship (or device like a grav well or cloak generator). A squad of six to ten ion cannon frigates can tear apart a capital-ship group; just don't make attempts to move them or change targets. Assign them a single target and watch them work until it's destroyed.

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