Cloaking
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Overview
Cloaking is a mission that allows a ship to be hidden from the enemy at the cost of extra fuel.
Cloaked ships are also less likely to hit mines (25% of normal probability).
Statistics
- Cloaking will fail approximately 1% of the time; in VGA Planets Nu, this gives this message:
We've had a problem in our engine room. Our cloaking device has failed!
- Cloaking burns Max (5, Floor((hull mass / 100) * 5))kt of fuel per turn.
- The The Empire of Birds has two ships with an advanced cloaking device.
Counter Strategies
Being attacked by ships with a cloaking device can be tough.
There are mainly three more-or-less effective counter-measures:
- Lay many minefields where you suspect cloaked enemies (preferably overlapping minefields). Web mines are even better, if available.
- A Loki Class Destroyer will decloak any cloaked ships with in 10 ly around it (doesn't work versus ships owned by Feds, Lizards and Birds).
- Ships with a glory device can also be used to decloak (and possibly disable or destroy) a cloaked ship at the same location.
Cloak-Capable Ships
The Lizards
The Empire of the Birds
Resolute Class Battlecruiser - Advanced Cloak
Dark Wing Class Battleship - Advanced Cloak
The Fascists
The Privateers
Other Races
Other races cannot build cloaking ships. However, they can capture and use cloaking ships from other races, and can (for some races) clone them.
