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 Feds
None
The Lizards
The Empire of the Birds
Resolute Class Battlecruiser - Advanced Cloak
Dark Wing Class Battleship - Advanced Cloak
The Fascists
The Privateers
The Cyborg
None
The Crystals
None
The Evil Empire
None
The Robotic Imperium
None
The Rebel Confederation
None
The Missing Colonies of Man
None
