Aegis Frigate
Fleet escort with anti-aircraft missiles, sonar, anti-submarine torpedoes and a light deck gun.
Stats
- Tier
- Tier 2
- Cost
- 700 metal
- Build time
- 34 s
- Hit points
- 900
- Armor
- Ship
- Speed
- 2 tiles/s
- Unit cap
- 3
- Vision
- 10 tiles
- Sonar
- 9 tiles
- Power
- −3
- DPS
- 116.7
- Range
- 8.5 tiles
Weapons
Naval gun
- Damage
- 40
- Reload
- 1.50 s
- DPS
- 26.7
- Range
- 5.5 tiles
- Splash
- 10 px
- Traits
- Aimed from a mount that turns on its own: the unit fires in any direction without turning its hull, and can keep firing on the move. A fixed gun has to face its target first.
- vs Light
- ×1
- vs Medium
- ×1
- vs Heavy
- ×0.75
- vs Structure
- ×0.75
- vs Ship
- ×1
Naval SAM
- Damage
- 80
- Reload
- 2 s
- DPS
- 40
- Range
- 8.5 tiles
- Traits
- The round steers after its target in flight and lands on it however it moves. An unguided round is fired at where the target is heading, and can miss.
- vs Aircraft
- ×1
Torpedoes
- Damage
- 160
- Reload
- 3.20 s
- DPS
- 50
- Range
- 7 tiles
- Traits
- The round steers after its target in flight and lands on it however it moves. An unguided round is fired at where the target is heading, and can miss.
- vs Submarine
- ×1.90
Counters
- Light
- Effective against: ×1; Countered by: ×1
- Medium
- Effective against: ×1; Countered by: ×1
- Heavy
- Effective against: ×0.75; Countered by: ×1
- Structure
- Effective against: ×0.75; Countered by: ×1.10
- Ship
- Effective against: ×1; Countered by: ×1.60
- Submarine
- Effective against: ×1.90; Countered by: ×1.30
- Aircraft
- Effective against: ×1; Countered by: ×1.70
The Aegis Frigate screens the fleet against aircraft and submarines with SAMs, sonar and anti-submarine torpedoes. A light deck gun handles surface targets. Tier 2 from the Advanced Naval Yard. The missiles launch from the forward deck cells and keep a target of their own: they go on firing at aircraft while the ship engages a submarine, a boat or the shore, and while the ship is under way.
How to use
Escort every serious fleet with at least one Frigate, or naval strikers and bombers will pick your capital ships apart. Its deck gun is decent against gunboats and coastal targets, but keep it out of missile-boat range. Its sonar detects submerged threats within nine tiles, and its torpedoes reach seven tiles through clear water. These torpedoes target submerged units; missile boats and Barracudas supply the fleet’s surface striking power. Its hull is wider than a tile: it needs two tiles of water abeam and cannot follow a gunboat through a channel a tile wide.
Anecdotes
The real Aegis is the shield of Zeus, borrowed by the US Navy in the 1960s for a radar and missile system built to do the same job: stop what is coming at the fleet before anyone has to dodge it.
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