missiles are really only useful when you re jousting. - mines are fine when you spam the battlefield and blow them up with a train CD. - but even so, they don t do much to non vanilla fighters.
i had a little fight against Blackheart ( some terrorist ) on cheshire. - i had my bomber not even half equipped at that time - no torps etc. - but i had a cannonball. - the only damage i did was with the cannonball. and it ripped his eagle apart easily.
i don t know how it would affect fights when missiles were greatly improved then. - hitting him jousting wasn t all too hard. - and a half equipped bomber really shouldn t win against an eagle. now of course, i would never have hit him outside the jousting - so in that case, it d be nice to have missiles that can hit. - but if they hit tracking targets from behind well - i could just spam the battlefield with cannonballs or firestalkers ( don t like sidewinders - i use firestalkers )
btw. he had 2 sidewinder launchers, i think. - they are supposed to be faster and track better - but i think he hit me a lot less.
edit: don t know about missiles that are not tracking at all. - might really be interesting. - a cannonball like missile with a 650 speed and a small blast damage.