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[Korrd]

Virus is right. I saw you fight Titus the other day. He was a Eagle you were a RH Bomber. You didn't even use torps or missiles and beat him. That is never supposed to happen. The bomber should have just enough to barely dodge things but it should be the agility of the Sabre. We would just put an extra torp and another gun on the Sabre if we wanted a bomber that agile. The bomber should be about what the titan was before we upgraded the agility on it. So about a dromadary's agility, maybe a bretonian freighters.

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You forgot to mention 2 things about that battle:

1. It took me arround 30 minutes to take him down. And you know that. All you did was complaining that "the battle was taking too long". And saying that "you would defeat him in less than a fraction of the time it took me". And when you fight him, he destroyed you in what? 3-4 minutes?

2. Had i fought in the way you do (that is, like a dogfight between 2 combat jets, where the most maneuverable is allways at the tail of the less maneuverable one), i would have lost in less than 5 minutes. Why? Because the eagle is twice as maneuverable than the RH Bomber. In fact, every fighther is more maneuverable. And the "tail" tactic does not works when used from a RH Bomber.

The tactic i used was:
Thrust against the enemy, throw him whatever i got, and run in the opposite direction of the enemy craft, to take distance and have time to turn. Then i repeat the maneuver. Engine kill is crucial to perform that maneuver, because you need to keep running away from the enemy while you turn.
So, i wasnt using the maneuverability of my ship against him. I was using my superior strength and firepower against the Eagle. I knew that he had not enough firepower to take me down in a frontal attack. Thats why i used the Attack Pattern "Slide" against him insted of going for his tail.

Thats why i think that the RH bomber maneuverability is Ok. Because trying to outmaneuver a fighter in a RH bomber is not possible.

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