14 minutes ago, The Jabbawookie said:These are all good points, and true ones. But overall this sounds a little bit like “The weakness is that it’s not the strongest in a specific area.” (Midrange skirmisher, maybe?) Being very good at everything with the same cost efficiency as the CR90 is, I think, a pretty amazing spot to be in. That said, I wasn’t being entirely serious originally; I believe risk is the weakness of ISDs in general. They represent a huge consolidation of points, and will cost you at least a third of your fleet when they go down.
Then I was unclear. The ISD-2 is not as efficient as the CR90, because it can do more things than the CR90. The flipside is that in order to use the ISD-2 for only one task, you are giving up enormous opportunity cost, both measured in real fleet points and possible other alternatives, both in upgrade suites for that ship or for choosing a different ship that might give up that multi-role flexibility, but instead becomes the specialist you desire. Certainly its enormous cost is a tactical threat, but so is wasting its capability foolishly in the building phase by not allowing yourself to get full value from the ship's points.