Always a bigger fish?

[kiggles]

You are forgetting bombers....
...a good bomber pilot can really give a GB a run for its money. if the bomber pilot has a CD and a Super nova installed. As the GB can not turn as fast as the bomber now, and CD can take care of the slide turn. It has to rely on turret view to do damage, meaning it can not steer while firing on a good bomber pilot bomber. It takes time but a bomber pilot with patience can take out a GB.

Also The ships designs are to promote cooperative game play. You want to fly alone, buy a GB but if you meet a hostile bomber and a VHF fighter together.....run or die.

Ok I have to comment on the part about using a CD. Am I the only person who realises how pointless it is to shoot a CD in combat unless to stop them from running away? I mean you have 70 CD's at max and one CD (if it hits) will take a ship out of engine kill, but there is no cool down timer all that must be done is pressing "z" again, and trust me I can press z more than 70 times.

Also if one bomber takes out a GB I would generaly say that the GB was not flown to well.

But related to the topic of the thread, yes cruisers do seem to be the weakest of the capital ships as they can't put out enough fire to kill a battleship (even the liberty cruiser with its forward gun) and a few fighters run rings around it but it lacks the battleships armor and shielding to defend its self from them. Though taking out a GB in a cruiser is not really that hard and if flown by decant pilots my money would always be on the cruiser. (though it is close sometimes)

Kiggles:mellow:

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I've been mildly miffed by one-shot weapons since their implementation, oh so long ago. I remember the days when fights were a matter of who could aim better, rather than who could aim a single shot. - Virus