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===Anchoring of Spares===

A recommended tactic is that you always anchor extra weapon and countermeasures outside the POS bubble, but leave them offline until needed. As existing weapons and countermeasures are incapacitated by damage, you can bring new weapons and countermeasures online.

A recommended tactic is that you always anchor extra weapon and countermeasures outside the POS bubble, but leave them offline until needed. As existing weapons and countermeasures are incapacitated by damage, you can bring new weapons and countermeasures online. This tactic mostly only works if you will have people actively defending the POS during the initial or follow-up sieges who will need spare modules to continue fighting off the attackers. See the [[POS Warfare#Starbase Defense Management|Starbase Defense Management]] section for a discussion of actively defending a POS.

The other theory behind anchoring offline spares is that it makes it more difficult for your enemy to know what modules will be active when they come to attack the POS. This is an effective tactic against enemies that are not specifically out to get you. If you have lots of electronic warfare batteries, weapon batteries and shield hardeners ready to go, smaller groups of opportunistic attackers may decide that you are too much trouble and go looking for easier POS towers. It is only an effective tactic on medium / large towers. Small towers are simply too easy to destroy and expensive modules / labs / contents should be evacuated at the first sign of trouble.

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-A recommended tactic is that you always anchor extra weapon and countermeasures outside the POS bubble, but leave them offline until needed.  As existing weapons and countermeasures are incapacitated by damage, you can bring new weapons and countermeasures online.
+A recommended tactic is that you always anchor extra weapon and countermeasures outside the POS bubble, but leave them offline until needed.  As existing weapons and countermeasures are incapacitated by damage, you can bring new weapons and countermeasures online.  This tactic mostly only works if you will have people actively defending the POS during the initial or follow-up sieges who will need spare modules to continue fighting off the attackers.  See the [[POS Warfare#Starbase Defense Management|Starbase Defense Management]] section for a discussion of actively defending a POS.
+The other theory behind anchoring offline spares is that it makes it more difficult for your enemy to know what modules will be active when they come to attack the POS.  This is an effective tactic against enemies that are not specifically out to get you.  If you have lots of electronic warfare batteries, weapon batteries and shield hardeners ready to go, smaller groups of opportunistic attackers may decide that you are too much trouble and go looking for easier POS towers.  It is only an effective tactic on medium / large towers.  Small towers are simply too easy to destroy and expensive modules / labs / contents should be evacuated at the first sign of trouble.
 ===Starbase Defense Management===