Discovery is far from vanilla FL, but just to remind you, in the original single player campaign Trent was required to take out several battleships and gunboats in order to stop the evil Rheinland fleet and their infected leader.
I'm sure some of you were more sensible than me, but I did that in a Dromedary (pecking away at each weapon until the guns were gone). So FL is not realistic. That's the starting point.
(10-06-2013, 04:10 AM)Savas Wrote: More realistic, you're kidding right? If we're talking about realism (which is barely compatible with FL as it is) the easiest way to kill a battleship in say, the WWII era, was not to throw another battleship at it but rather planes such as dive bombers (Basically snacs), torpedo bombers (Cough, cough, novas) and kamikaze
This is true. When you think about it, every space sim is a version of WWII in space because we love the excitement of dogfighters. Planes and bombers were very effective against ground troops (FL bases and weapons platforms) and naval vessels (FL caps), albeit with high casualties.
The classic story repeated in vanilla FL, Star Wars and in many other sci-fi stories is the ace pilot vanquishing a much more powerful foe through skill and determination. David and Goliath in space.
