When watching ECM don't just adjust your ECCM to cancel out the shift of your enemy MONITOR it. One particular battle I was in I kept cranking the ECM to get that 1 point shift and my opponent kept cranking the ECCM to match me. Once we were at 6 I waited a couple of battle passes and turned it to 0, he didn't notice. It gave my ship a 10% power advantage as each ship had in the neighbourhood of 60 points of power. Extra shield reinforcement or speed for me gave me a decided edge.
I love when this happens. I like to keep the EW panel at on the hotkey [h] (I forget if it's default or custom) and have it always up unless I need to change with the weapon settings. Also, the reverse is nice. For example, you have 4 ECM and are facing a Fed with 4 ECCM and they just manage to enter range 8 . . . there is no time to charge up 5 ECM, but you know they're going to fire, so you activate EM. If you're lucky, they blow everything and miss.
I was more or less referring to the ships with 34 to 36 power at stardate 2275 when the F-CB come out it has 38 power so why not give all Fed CAs that power.
I am referring to Fed vs Roms as they can go around with Fs loaded as full speed and still recharge them.i have done some simulated tests on that and a Novahawk can do this as well as most Rom. CAs.I am not talking about X-ships.The only way a Fed pilot can beat a Rom is long drawn out phaser fight but Roms still got plasma.This is an area I am weak in talking stock op+4.0.I am referring to the standard CA most get being that of CC+.
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I think the reason that even the fully refitted CA/CC line have only 36 power is because they just can't fit any more systems in. By the time the ship is expanded and extra power is added, you have a ship the size of the CB (in SFB history, I don't know if the actual hull of the CC was expanded to make the CB, but even if it wasn't, the added power would at least give you the cost of a CB/CCH).
Although the Novahawk is a beefed up New Series CC, it is really point-wise equal to other races' BCHs, and I think the F-BCF is a good match for it. If we are flying the CC+ (149) and CB (165), I think some more balanced Romulan opponents are some of the KR series (K7RB at 166) . . . and I can't really think of too many Romulans around 150, so if that is the max BPV, it should have a decent advantage over ships like the SPA+/SPL+. That's if we say that the BPV system is perfectly balanced . . . ha!