Heavy Fighter's Cruise Speed

[Ursus]

But on the other hand, I could be misunderstanding the balance goal here. Are heavy fighters supposed to be able to take down VHFs?

If the 'goal' is to have people fly HFs, then yeah.

The point of balance for snubs is that their guns fire forward, meaninig they have to point the whole ship at the target. If an HF and a VHF point noses at each other then the big ship should win because more guns and more hull. But if the HF is able to get behind the VHF and point at his engine, the HF should be able to dominate. HF as a class lacks the agility (which is identical with VHF class) and the powercore and firepower to do that currently, it struggles to get into position and then ... nothing ... the guns suck and the power runs out very quickly.

ps--disclaimer again, it aint happening, due to lots and lots of ingrained factors (not enough faction HFs to replace current VHFs, for example, lack of bomber balance, for another)

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