Bomber balance

[mjolnir]

Again, I would agree were it not for the fact that a single Catamaran would be able to destroy a GB

Actually downing a GB in catamaran if you don't have Inferno (which it basically shouldn't have), or 5 shieldbuster is quite difficult. I have not beeping able to down a few like that... and they didn't even had missiles. Put two missiles on and it's almost not possible. The main problem is the shield comming up before you can fire supernova again => means you need to shoot it down => you are pretty exposed while doing it.

.. a single Thor wouldn't even with the improvements you suggest, because it wouldn't be able to even target the GB without losing bots (or fly around it while energy recharges for that matter) due to crippled dodging and a huge hitbox. I mount an Inferno and SN on my Thor and I can still only do so much before getting blasted to bits, most people agree with me that unless we jump somebody in a pack of 4 or more Thors it is next to impossible to do anything, which is out of balance if you ask me.

Then how do you explain the fight with mw in Thor + 2 Odins and 1 LF, against first: 2 Titans, 1 Praetorian, 1 GB... gb and one Titan died then the rest left (because 2 more GBs and a Cruiser came and they felt it was too much), and we killed the 2GBs and the Cruiser.

A fighter and bomber should be able to effectively take out a GB. Remember when we were fighting Mule in O-5 in his GB (me in a fighter, you in a bomber), were it not for the rocks and Ronneburg base we would both be toast, and even then we had no chance of fighting him off before chopper undocked with his bomber. Now for it to take three ships to toast a GB when normally a skilled catamaran player can pull it off alone... I am sorry, but I can't agree with just the powerplant buff.

You had pretty much useless anti-gb loadout (2 Imp.Debs + 2 Natters + 2 Missiles and CD). And no I won't be able to take him down with catamaran for the reasons explained above.
Thor is not that bad as you picture it, it needs you to work a lot on dodging... but so does the RH bomber. Only thing it needs is the powerplant. With it even while using bats/bots you will punch trough GB shield/hull before you get low on bots. Oh, btw. it's getting 10% size decrease according to AoM.

NY however is more or less newbie nation. Four Taiidans can completely cripple anything that is thrown at them (including fighters, GBs, LFs, you name it) by the lawfuls there, and I know that from personal experience. Not much use using it for compare purposes.

I will give you names then:
1 Barghest(SN+CD) +1 Sabre (with CD) were against Oxidfox in Liberty BC.. he died.. even though an SA (don't remember name) came to cover him in a Liberator half way trough... and was on me the whole time.
The other huge fight was 2 USS (one of them USS Titan in the BC, one in Cruiser), 2 random Cruisers and GBs a few VHFs and LFs including Ibanez in his laggy liberator, vs 2 Sabres, 1 Falcata and one Barghest. In the end of the fight we killed BC, 2? Cruisers, 2 GBs, some 3 fighters, and the LF. Denelo in his Falcata died as well as one sabre. The last of us left when one BS came and cruiser + gb re-engaged.

On another day I was alone in the Barghest against Sniper in the Goliath (liberty carrier), I was able to keep his shield down without getting hull damage (using range yes), but not hurt his hull since the shield came up too fast.

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