Bomber balance

[mjolnir]

( leave gunboats and missiles )

You can't really do that since they are the primary anti-bomber weapons. But ok you agree that caps vs bomber are kind of ok.

The argument that bombers are too good (or more exactly to hard to take down) for fighters is reasonable. And I partly agree 1vs1 fighter can have very hard time with a bomber. The primary weapon for a fighter for this kind of fight are actually missiles/torps/mines, bombers are much more likely to get hit by them => they loose guns.

As to hitting while you are defending capship a LF / VHF combo with some explosives is best for that kind of job. LFs can keep the shield down all the time, without shield the bomber will take hits from the capship and the VHF, that will wear it down, question is how fast yes...

One way to balance fighters against bombers would be to further reduce the amount of guns bombers mount.

Actually yes that's the easiest way to do it.
First step should be catamaran without turret and BHG bomber with only 4 guns.
Second might be all agile bombers (with the smaller powerplant) get only 3 guns, while the less agile keep 4, and Barghest keeps 4+ turret.

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