The Valor is still okay to fly because of its thin shape, but still looses to medium and light caps, as duels between other players in conn showed me. That people more likely buy a Gallic battlecruiser now because they can't do much with a valor against bretonian fleets is a fact. And now the Dunkirks still loose battles because battlecruisers are something they haven't "trained" to handle. Although I must say that the gallic battlecruiser is actually neither too weak nor too strong, but well balanced. I can kill experienced bc players with the most of my caps, and if I can do so with a valor, then it is even easier with a smaller cap like the dunkirk. To thunderes statement he feels safest in a valor. I haven't seen you flying the Tonnant for ages, only the other players which the Tonnant is shared with. But I don't really wonder you like the actual cap combat. It favors your beloved Dunkirks.
Anyway, the topic are the cerbs. I am fighting dunkirks very often with a valor and never it's been so difficult to win. The buff for the grn primary turrets is small and deserved, but now when I kill a dunkirk player in a duel, they're saying the grn primary turrets are just op and need to be nerfed, while I use a double missle trebuchet setup and see them winning easily against other valors with cerb setups.
I don't even log my other heavy battleships anymore for battles since there are none because people can't handle this mortar 'meta' with their heavy battleships and if you take 2 light or medium battleships to fight it will take ages to come to a result since they can't hit each other often enough with mortars or prims.
The past battles that I have participated in were the New London raids with wesker where we won thanks to simple cruising up on the kirks butts, which is kinda the same as buttcloaking with the difference that you are easier being CDed. Another recent fight in Leeds, 3 dunkirks and on the grn side 2 battlecruiser and 1 valor (me). I was not able to damage the dunkirks (not that I would've been with old cerbs either) and played the bait so that the 2 battlecruiser could pick the dunkirks one by one effortlessly. It was a boring battle and the result was predictable.
With the old cerbs we had more battles and more fun. Either bring them back or find something else that provides fun for all capship players. I heard somethign about broadside combat? Well this will be difficult to balance aswell, looking at battleships such like tokugawa with their giant height and length
