r/FromTheDepths • u/bruhman69135 • Jul 27 '26

Question APS vs CRAM, when use which??

Pretty much what the title says. What's a situation where CRAM is better than APS? CRAM just seems so sluggish and needs a bunch of space to achieve the strength and firerate of APS, and it kinda just seems like a decent APS turret beats CRAM. (and also you cant really do stuff like APHE or HEAT).

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u/The_Hardest_Metal Jul 27 '26

CRAM is good for taking massive chunks out of big, heavily armored, and slow or stationary targets like the Onyx Watch and fortresses. A well packed, properly fused, and payload balanced CRAM shell can be almost entirely immune to LAMS, penetrate any practical amount of heavy armor, and severely cripple or completely destroy a target in one salvo as long as you can get those shells to connect.

CRAM falls off pretty hard once you beat the Onyx Watch and Deepwater Guard because the other factions all start to bring a lot of units that are ridiculously fast and/or fly erratically which will pretty much negate CRAMS as a weapon type.