Missiles everywhere!

[Cawdor]

well, as it was stated before, every loadout (or strategy) has is downsides/counters. The only problem is that, at least in my oppinion, the couter to missiles or most instant-killers is a rather annoying one.
Since CMs can't be takes into account as they are rarely useful, you will always have to dance around your opponent when your shield is down and wait until its back up again. This seriously stretches PvP fights as most of us already experienced. And anyone of you, no matter how much experience you have, will agree that PvP fights already take a rather long time as-is.

Then there is the CD, of course: a very defensive choice when it comes to mounting something into your torp-slot. Still, I actually quite liked it since its a useful tool to kill the enemy's EK/Cruise and I often think about it as an ammo-fueled shield. But lacking a minirazor is a serious downside in any kind of combat situation. The CD will keep the opponent _you are currently jousting_ at bay, but thats about it. Of course there are those non-vanilla vs vanilla situations dab ist constantly complaining about, where a non-vanilla ship can actually afford the damage it is taking by the blast when it hits a vanilla ship that is passing by, thus not caring about the CD vs Missile timing. So even here, you would have to dance around your opponent, killing precious time of your life.

But don't get me wrong here. Missiles aren't all bad (even though they make you waste more time of your life in a trader and run out of ammo some time (but then again: since anybody mounts missiles these days, I guess you will be able to restock after someone gets killed)). I think of them as something that gives new players a little boost. they don't require as much skill as guns do and are fairly easy to handle, yet treacherous when used in the wrong moments.

Its just a little annoying lately that, when being in a fight, I have to choose between (not) jousting a SNing Bomber or someone who has more than 2 missiles mounted (thus not worth jousting at) and waste my time anyway with flying around my opponents like a fly around steaming piles.

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