This post provides some insight on drone warfare and answers some fundamental questions on whether they should be used or not, as well as give some info on my personal experience with them.
Drone swarms are incredibly effective when you take their mass into account. They also have the advantages of rendering high alpha damage long reload weapons useless and drawing turret fire from your main ship.
For empirical evidence I tested out a ~2.5k total mass drone rack (more on that latter)...
The ultimate drone R&D thread
Drone swarms are incredibly effective when you take their mass into account. They also have the advantages of rendering high alpha damage long reload weapons useless and drawing turret fire from your main ship.
For empirical evidence I tested out a ~2.5k total mass drone rack (more on that latter)...
The ultimate drone R&D thread