Editing Dropfleet Commander/Tactics/UCM (section)

==Counter-Tactics==
Just out damage them (Scourge and Shaltari): Out of all the factions, the UCM actually have the lowest total firepower on their gun ships, across all tonnages and classes. While they still do beat out the PHR on single-target damage, the Scourge and Shaltari will out damage the UCM on weapons free. Because the UCM are second only to the PHR when it comes to toughness, use this to your advantage and let loose on weapons free as much as possible; they will not be able to match you in damage, and if you prioritize targets right, you won't lose too many of your ships in return.

Just out fly them (Scourge and PHR): UCM have the worst launch assets in the game, and the Scourge and PHR, respectively, have the second and first best. The Hydra is an excellent and cheap source of many launch assets (the most point efficient carrier in the game per launch asset, in fact), easily allowing you to negate whatever fighters and bombers they did bring, with one or two launch assets left over to do with as you please. The Bellerophon is just pure cheese, and while not quite as point efficient per launch asset as the Hydra, comes with a UCM-equivalent laser tacked on.

One thing to always be aware of, however, is that the UCM are much longer ranged than they look on paper (due to Limas), and much more protected against CAW and launch than they look on paper (due to Jakartas); Shaltari players may find themselves unexpectedly in range of an angry pack of Cairos thanks to a Lima, and a Scourge player may be left with an impotent Djinn attack against some big target thanks to the power of twp or three stacked up Jakartas; 25 PD on a battleship is going to stop anything short of pure CAW or launch spam.