The Rheinland Bomber

[Nightfall]

El Gato, FYI, none of those you talk about are ships that are originally sold in Vanilla except the Dagger, which in my not so humble opinion, has a good place on Buffalo.

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The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor

[marauder]

@Revok: If you'd bothered to notice there is very few people who RPs with weapons at all, everyone always goes for the 'best' or 'most powerful' weapon out there regardless of whether their NPC alignment even allows them to get near the base that sells it.

It seems that all igiss's work to put in new class 8 and 9 guns for most factions was a waste of time.

Also, without battlerazors and infernos a BS struggles to kill a cruiser, especially if it still has all the stock turrets.

The only faction that I know of who RP with capship weapons are the RM, but we still have to mount infernos, mortars or battle razors just to have a chance of beating anyone in a capship who attacks us.

[Virus]

Right now, I really could care less if RM loses the bomber. I'm am SOOOOOOOO tired of seeing bombers EVERYWHERE. I'm almost to the point where we should have a player wipe to get rid of these damned things. >:(

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Into the Maelstrom - A Measure of Salvation - Reaver Company Database

[onca]

Maybe we should form a new faction... {OBS} == "Order of Bomber-Stompers" -- a cardre of elite LFs and VHFs, whose sole purpose is to find freelancer/weak-RP players in bombers and smoke 'em.

[Lump Lorry]

Maybe we should form a new faction... {OBS} == "Order of Bomber-Stompers" -- a cardre of elite LFs and VHFs, whose sole purpose is to find freelancer/weak-RP players in bombers and smoke 'em.

:) He, he... why not?

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Lump Lorry
on behalf of the Lorry Family
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Kruger's bar und Mensa on Essen Station

(Reunion 4.85 chars)
-- The new Lorry Family --
Lump Lorry free trader. chief of the Lorrys | [RM] Hg. M(anfred) Von Lorryhofen Rheinwer's Obergefreiter
[HF] Cesare Lorry Hellfire Legion member | Kuger - Jack "Deep" Hole Kruger Minerals worker

(Former chars on Disco 4.82) -- The old Lorry Family --
Lump Lorry freelancer trader. chief of the Lorrys | Manta Lorry freelancer pilot | [HF] Cesare Lorry
fighter pilot, HF member | sso|Ace Wolverine Lorry bounty hunter | [RM] M(anfred) Von Lorryhofen
Rheinland Military pilot | [AEGIS] GB 303 Ticonderoga AEGIS artificial intelligence gunboat | (secret
member) In charge of keeping the family's secrets

[Qunitinius~Verginix]

Well, I don't think that Igiss putting in all the NEw class 8 and 9 weapons was a loss, I took all the outcast and corsair guns off my Scimitar, and put on Rouge and Junker guns. I think it was good.

Rofl, Onca wat a good Idea lol!

Verginx Out

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[Dab]

I talked with Korrd about this earlier today.. I think the bomber should be prohibited from pirating, as it is (Korrd came up with this) a mini-battleship. I don't think the ship itself should be nerfed, but maybe the novas. Or take two of the level 10 guns from it to make up for the massive firepower. The SF and sso| can attest to this. 6 caps couldn't take down 3 bombers (granted, two of them were Korrd and I, but still..). Any decent-piloted bomber can kill any cap not made to be solely anti-fighter/bomber. Plus, the bomber can easily take down any trading ship we have other than a lux liner with cruiser shields and VIII armor.

I would suggest the downgrading of the novas by a bit, removing two level 9 guns from both bombers, and then making them disallowed to pirate in.

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[Virus]

I don't know.. I hit a bomber with a mortar the other day.. A MORTAR. Not Battle Razor. And it survived.

Granted, that would have been impossible to even do if he wasn't sitting still and I hit him with an inferno only a half second before the mortar.

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Into the Maelstrom - A Measure of Salvation - Reaver Company Database

[Qunitinius~Verginix]

I dont think they should be nerfed the way dab sugested, they should however, be disallowed to pirate in them. But that would mkae a Corsair or outcast bomber redundant....

Make an outcast GB???

Verginix Out

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[Ant]

There a combination or factors which make the Rheinland bomber such a potent weapon.
1. Small size
2. Large power supply
3. Excellent maneuverability
4. Heavy armour
5. Heavy weapons

Each on their own are not to bad but the combination together makes it difficult to tackle by most ships.

If it were larger than a Taidan(closer to gunboat size), it wouldn't be quite so bad.
As it is, you're lucky to hit it in the first place. Then even if you can hit it, chances are it'll take you out before you can deal with it, in any ship other than a light fighter. Even in a light fighter, there's every chance the one shot kill will hit at some point.

For it's small size, I would expect less firepower and armour than what it has.