How to deal with Spire Blade Spawners

[NickAragua]

These things are currently the bane of my existence. Let's see:

- Their blades go directly through force fields.
- They're immune to sniper fire
- They outrange any other turret you have.

So, any time even a single one of them pops into one of my systems, I have to go scramble a defense force to take them out, otherwise they very quickly kill my power generators/command station and it all goes down hill from there. Anyone have any tips on dealing with them?

[zoutzakje]

can you slow them down with gravity turrets? I forgot if they are immune to gravity effects or not. Do you have spire maws? They effectively eat the spawned blades. Otherwise make sure you have a bunch of ships that have a multiplier against it's hull on the planets you want to defend the most (and turrets). also build high mark Logistic command stations, they significantly decrease enemy speed, giving you more time to defend against them.
Hope this helps a bit. If it doesn't, I'll get back on this later today or tomorrow, since I'm dealing with blade spawners (and using them myself also) in my current game as well.

[chemical_art]

Gravity turrets will neutralize their offense. You can use logistical stations to make them slower, or use military stations to have the station and shield be immune to their attacks. I don't think the motherships move much so if you stack your turrets to intercept wormholes you can avoid the range problem.

[NickAragua]

Holy crap, gravity turrets really do the trick, slowing those annoying blades long enough that my other turrets can shoot 'em up. Thanks for the tip, guys!

[zoutzakje]

glad to be of help =)