To DEVs

[AeternusDoleo]

Govedo, you've confirmed my suspicions.
A: You're not a very good Ossie pilot. As agile as the thing is, you don't let enemy heavies get within 3K of you. It cruises up, you cruise off. After serving it a dose of your heavy guns. Your cruise charges faster. If the damn thing flies towards you at impulse, you turn and fire aft. (if it doesn't dodge you'll feed it so many mortars before it catches up that it's going to lose before coming into primary range).
And B: You still see the role of the Ossie as some superheavy anti-snub gunboat with a heavy gun. It's not a gunboat/antisnub platform. It's a tactical battleship that relies on speed and agility, that excels in crossing roidfields.

Best loadout for the ossie right now would be full pulse and a heavy mortar - that will outrange any cerberus-wielding ship by at least 1000m. It will also enable the ossie to put it's full energy core to either dedicated shieldbusting or dedicated hullbusting. Oh, and those pulse cannons are surprisingly effective against bombers, firing a salvo towards one making a run at you usually makes at least one hit, which means shields gone. Follow up with flaks and secondaries for maximum effect.

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