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RE: Best Transport/Freighter to Pirate in? - Pancakes - 04-06-2014
Liners aren't viable for piracy because they are too slow. They thrust at 130 m/s speed, so, even a 5ker can just thrust away from them after suffering some damage.
RE: Best Transport/Freighter to Pirate in? - Singularity - 04-06-2014
How does a pelican with a CAU mounted sound ?? Although it won't be able to haul the ores, but you won't face any challenge from any Transport too
RE: Best Transport/Freighter to Pirate in? - Pancakes - 04-06-2014
Pelican is quite the poor-man's gunboat. A good choice for piracy if you aren't into using a PTrans
RE: Best Transport/Freighter to Pirate in? - Tutashkhia - 04-06-2014
Get yourself a Gunboat,mount Solarises(actually basic\faction turrets work too) and 2 razors - Perfect for pirating traders.
Bombers are still useful but you'll find some difficulties against well armored transports.
Get rid of fighters unless you are not pirating with a group...
RE: Best Transport/Freighter to Pirate in? - Pavel - 04-06-2014
If you want, good alternative for Pirate Transport in raider role is Behemoth. Tt's relatively small, has good arcs, is agile, and has better thrust speed than 5kers.
RE: Best Transport/Freighter to Pirate in? - Lonely_Ghost - 04-06-2014
Bretonia Shire haven't been mentioned? Frankly, never had that ship, but I do remember, some players used it for pirating. For sure, Privateers used those.
RE: Best Transport/Freighter to Pirate in? - Pancakes - 04-06-2014
It has no CD, and IIRC it thrusts at 140 m/s which means smaller ships can just thrust away from it
RE: Best Transport/Freighter to Pirate in? - Narcotic - 04-06-2014
In all seriousness:
Mule.
RE: Best Transport/Freighter to Pirate in? - Taco123 - 04-09-2014
Thanks everyone for all those awesome suggestions. However im gonna have to go with what Moriarty said work my way up for a Junker. Though im goin for Gallic Junker cause i can pirate in all houses (except gallia itself). Specifically the Assault Transport
RE: Best Transport/Freighter to Pirate in? - Binski - 04-09-2014
(04-06-2014, 10:04 AM)Pancakes Wrote: Pelican is quite the poor-man's gunboat. A good choice for piracy if you aren't into using a PTrans
Yeah except the Pelican has about equal firepower to a gunboat, perhaps not always the same range. Its very manoeverable and packs quite a punch for a ship of its size. Not to mention its +20 m/s over a gunboat, so it can actually keep up with transports.
Pelican with a cau would be a great choice. I use a med cloak and standard uau8 on mine. I can't pirate for cargo in it, but I always get the drop on a ship, so demanding cash is always viable. Honestly I find the Pelican is like the gunboat I always wanted. I can't believe I over looked it for so long!