Cloaking Field (Apocalypse): Difference between revisions

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The Cloaking Field is an Alien defense system that disrupts the detectors of missiles or weapon control systems. Effectively this means that the craft is almost invisible to radar, infra-red and visual sighting. It is very effective but the field must be disabled temporarily if the craft is using any of its own weapons systems.  From: Apocalypse Ufopaedia

Cloaking Field

Weight: 80
Size: 3 × 4
Cloaking: 100%
Jamming: 20%
Style: road/air
Manufacturer: X-Com Exotic Copy
Base Price: $16,450
Maximum Weekly Stock: 17
Storage Space: 90

This device is used to limit the chance of impact from hostile weaponry by confusing the automatic aiming of any weapons and to increase the chance of an active missile's failure in tracking any cloaked craft.
The cloaking effect will temporarily be disabled if any weaponry impacts the craft or if any weapons are fired. This may briefly allow missiles in-flight to re-acquire their target. One device per craft is sufficient.

Air
X-COM: Apocalypse\Vehicles\Vehicle Equipment
Weapons	40mm Auto-Cannon Bolter 4K Laser Gun Lancer 7K Laser Gun Rendor Plasma Gun Lineage Plasma Cannon Plasma Multi-System Janitor Missile Array Prophet Missile Array Justice Missile Launcher Retribution Missile Launcher Laser Defense Array Plasma Defense Array Light Disruptor Beam Medium Disruptor Beam Heavy Disruptor Beam Disruptor Bomb Launcher Disruptor Multi-Bomb Launcher Stasis Bomb Launcher
Engines	SD Standard SD Deluxe SD Sports SD Turbo SD Elite SD Special
Ground
Weapons	40mm Auto Cannon Turret Airguard Anti-Air Cannon GLM Array Plasma Turret Cannon GLM Air Defense Rumble Cannon
Engines	Metro Roadhog Metro Roadgrav Metro Turbograv Metro Powergrav Metro Multipower Plus
Shared
Devices	Weapons Control System (Light, Medium, Heavy, Advanced) Transport Module (Cargo, Passenger, Bio-Transport) Small / Large Disruption Shield Missile Evasion Matrix, Cloaking Field Teleporter

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-The cloaking field is a large alien device found on UFOs that is in essence a much more powerful version of the [[Missile Evasion Matrix (Apocalypse)|Missile Evasion Matrix]]. The partial transparency effect that it provides does not hide the vehicle and is only cosmetic in function.
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+ The Cloaking Field is an Alien defense system that disrupts the detectors of missiles or weapon control systems. Effectively this means that the craft is almost invisible to radar, infra-red and visual sighting. It is very effective but the field must be disabled temporarily if the craft is using any of its own weapons systems.  ''From: Apocalypse Ufopaedia
+===Cloaking Field===
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+* Weight: 80
+* Size: 3 × 4
+* Cloaking: 100%
+* Jamming: 20%
+* Style: road/air
+* Manufacturer: [[X-COM_(Apocalypse)|X-Com]] Exotic Copy
+* Base Price: $16,450
+* Maximum Weekly Stock: 17
+* Storage Space: 90
+</td></tr></table>
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-While it does provide superior jamming capabilities to the Missile Evasiona Matrix, the Cloaking Field is probably more efficient mounted on the UFOs that they are found on rather than on X-COM aircraft due to its unwieldy size. If necessary, the [[Annihilator (Apocalypse)| Annihilator]] and the [[Bio-Trans (Apocalypse) | Bio-Trans]] have reasonable amount of space for the cloaking field. Other ships will be at a loss for space to arm the much coveted and very necessary [[Small Disrupter Shield (Apocalypse)|Small Disrupter Shields]] when fighting larger UFOs.
+This device is used to limit the chance of impact from hostile weaponry by confusing the automatic aiming of any weapons and to increase the chance of an active missile's failure in tracking any cloaked craft.<br>
+The cloaking effect will temporarily be disabled if any weaponry impacts the craft or if any weapons are fired. This may briefly allow missiles in-flight to re-acquire their target.
+One device per craft is sufficient.
-It is debatable whether to use the cloaking field and tempt fate and try to make one missile miss, or to arm more shields and just soak up the damage from the aforementioned missile. This is a decision best left to the tactician to decide.
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