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C3 slave with angel ECM or boosted C3 slave
« on: 28 November 2019, 03:29:06 »
I have a question.  If you had a homemade design and you you were going to give it a slave unit which one woul dyou give it.

Obviously the boosted slave is better however is it really worth having if the unit you have already has an angel ECM that you could use to protect your c3 network if needed?  From what I understand the big boost that a boosted c3 gives you is that ability to resist ECM on your c3 network but you could use the angel ECM to do much of the same thing I believe so I was wondering if boosted c3 is still helpful if the unit has countering ECM going on it.

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Re: C3 slave with angel ECM or boosted C3 slave
« Reply #1 on: 28 November 2019, 09:40:50 »
Boosted slave also needs Boosted master to be immune.

Angel eccm + c3s is often a better choice, but tech level will apply. Plus it counts afair as 2 ecms, so 3 could override, but Boosted can't be blocked at all.
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Re: C3 slave with angel ECM or boosted C3 slave
« Reply #2 on: 28 November 2019, 09:52:30 »
Also, if you've got ECM in the middle between a master and spotter that's out of their ECCM range, that will still take the link down.
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Re: C3 slave with angel ECM or boosted C3 slave
« Reply #3 on: 28 November 2019, 10:38:01 »
Boosted slave also needs Boosted master to be immune.

Angel eccm + c3s is often a better choice, but tech level will apply. Plus it counts afair as 2 ecms, so 3 could override, but Boosted can't be blocked at all.
C3B can be blocked, by Angel ECM.  While being more expensive and heavier than multiple Angel ECM suites as a full system.

It's really a rather pointless system, honestly.  C3 w/ AECM all the way.

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Re: C3 slave with angel ECM or boosted C3 slave
« Reply #4 on: 28 November 2019, 10:49:38 »
Slave and Angel Hands Down . Very Flexible  .

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Re: C3 slave with angel ECM or boosted C3 slave
« Reply #5 on: 28 November 2019, 11:11:58 »
Assuming ECCM rules are in play.
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