Blood dragon Cruiser

[Blighter]

The current Kagutsuchi had its statistics altered to become an agile cruiser that could, if necessary, fight back against Stortas and Hatchets alike, being on even footing with those provided the driver knew what he was doing, and to be able to survive small battles against snubs which bigger cruisers couldn't survive due to their sluggishness. But the Kagu would suffer against heavier Cruisers and Battlecruisers, yet have the advantage of a FWG and agility that would enable it to dodge effectively against battleships and their primaries while dishing out the occasional pain - especially in fights against larger or rather less-agile ones (Pocket-Knife, Ranseur.)
It features one FWG, five regular cruiser slots and two heavy cruiser slots.
Last I remember the FWG fires only straight forward.
One heavy is 360.
The bottom heavy only covers the rear.
One of the cruiser regulars mostly covers only the front.
The two on the axe-blade were almost-360 if I remember right with the blind-spot to the rear so a switch from rear+up to rear+down required them to turn around the long way.
Last two are 360.

Total guns front: 5R 1H 1FWG.
Total guns rear: 4R 2H. (2R require full-turn if aim switches from top to bottom rear.)
Total guns sideways: 3R 2H.
Total guns top: 5R 1H.
Total guns bottom: 4R 1H.

You were fighting an agile cruiser with Snubs. You only had one bomber if I gathered right. You were up against a good pilot apparently. And I guess you stuck to the thing's ass.

Without a plan, you're meant to die in that scenario.

Put 2 and 2 together and you'll realize that a ship with such a limited amount of guns will only have limited flexibility in terms of loadouts and coverage. You can generally rule out Solaris on it - too few regular slots to mix with Cerbs or Razors effectively, even with 6 too little damage output due to limited arcs. (Limited much in comparison to the prime Solaris Cruiser, the RPC with 7x 360s, of those two heavy, and 2x almost-360s, regulars, total 9.) The way the guns are placed, you don't want to sit on the rear but approach from the bottom, the sides, or the front - depening on what's on those two HSlots. If it's Cerbs, avoid them. If it's BRs, avoid them. If it's a LM or Missile, don't care. You're flying microship paperplanes. Guns bad. Big guns miss. Cerbs eat your soul because you are paper. Kekeke. And it'll never be doing a lot of damage if it has Solaris (unless if the driver's fullpro but there's oh so many of those.)

Anyway, scan the ship and bring an appropriate counter for it. Does a Kagu have 4 Prims and 2 Cerbs? Get a GB or two. Kusari GBs are very agile and will be able to dodge Cerbs easily while the Prims will do negligible damage.

Does it have a BR or a missile or even both? Call in a Hatchet. A Hatchet is smaller, agile as well for its size and shape, may only have a light plant, but it comes with 8 regular cruiser slots + 1 heavy. - Enough firepower to overpower the Kagu sometimes, and suited for an even fight 1 vs 1, and should kill the Kagu with snub support usually, especially if the Kagu lacks anti-cap punch. (BR's trash, Missiles ain't DP/S machines and Hatchets can dodge them no sweat, same with LMs, etc.)

And if you just want to get rid of it quick? Call in one of those .86 additions called Komainus. Get close, brute-force, enjoy your explosion.
Komainu show up.
Kagu no dice, blow up like squid.
Leaves us no Sushi, only Kyushu Rice.

Let 'em duel if you want. Should be fun to watch.


That said, because the limited amount of slots and the FWG and the turret placements ruled out making the Komainu something like a heavy front-line cruiser as Obstinates or RMCs are, it turned into a Cruiser more ideally suited to survival against whatever crap is thrown at it. - Provided it doesn't cross the magical "too much" line.

That does include surviving snubs. It does not include surviving a called-in surprise Hatchet and four or so snubs with the Hatchet sitting on the Komainu's arse. But it can dodge some Bomber fire and really big guns. - It was meant to be that way. - It can't dodge the smaller ones that well however, and it can't go toe-to-toe against a bigger and meaner ship without support - or a ****ty driver on the other side, or luck, whatever, but it's not exactly made of paper - it's a cruiser afterall - so fighters'll take their sweet time to get rid of it.

Ship's fine as is thou.