Current top tier bombers

[Antonio]

piracy

hitting a GB

Are you pirating gunboats?

Here's the thing. If there's a turret steering battletransport and bigger, you will be hitting it consistently with the scorchers as well as the SNAC, but since the scorcher has almost double the efficiency it's better against them than the SNAC period.

If there's a turret steering transport smaller than the battletrans, neither the scorchers nor the SNAC are the best solution, but hellfires, chainguns or energy cannons are. However, if the transport is turret steering and fighting you back, chances are it's not running towards the base, or if he is he's getting there much slower, giving you more time to kill him.

In any case, you have tools to deal with any kind of a transport - the 3 guns for smaller ones and scorchers for bigger ones, but none of them is the SNAC. You -can- use it, but it's not as good as other options. If you rely on the SNAC and ASURAS only, the transport will survive much longer than if you use an optimal loadout. I remember doing tests with Karst a while ago, a SNAC+EMP bomber will down an AU VIII Serenity in about 40k, while the one with hellfires and energy cannons will do the same in ~20k, depending on the percentage of hellfires hit it can be even less. Not only that, but you can afford to straight up tank transports because you deal so much dps (max efficiency = max dps in the long run) that you can afford to trade regens and speed up the process significantly more if you're short on time.