BHG Gunship

[Muleo]

BHG Gunship

Armor: 55 k
Bats/bots: 250
gun/turrets: 0/6 ( all of them forward)
cargo space: 280
max. angular: 0.72 (doesn't reflect handling)

Problems
- agility better than some bombers and much better than nearest GB (Lane Hacker)
- size smaller than some bombers and half the nearest GB (LH again)
- 6 forward firing turrets

How it affects combat
- Very dangerous to fighters/bombers - almost impossible to hit with SN (when frozen can't hit me with 4/5 SNs in his Catamaran it's almost impossible)
- Quite dangerous against other GBs/capships - as 80% of gunboat survival is in its shield, it can dodge GB/Cruiser fire when shield gets down and then fire (say 4 Cerbs, or some infernos) in short periods, having same firepower as most GBs ( same powersupply and 6 turrets).

What could be changed
It could remain anti-fighter/bomber specialized =>
- One less turret (drop completely or make it rear-only)
and/or
- lower cargo space so that it can't mount any capship armor, without one it dies to 1 SN

Let's get this done.
After spending a lot of time fighting these things, I'm sick and tired of them. Spending some time in Liberty in a 'criminal' bomber, I get hounded down by hoards of fighters, liberty gunboats and cruisers. All fine. But when I see a gunship...oh boy... my heart just sinks when I think about the 30 minutes of retarded dodging and insane aiming I'm gonna have to do to try and take that gunship down...

I remember a time when both Orcas and Gunships were used, but lately, it seems everyone's ditched the Orca (for it's obvious flaws) and all fly gunships now.

Hittability (is that a word?:P)
I can attest to Mjolnir saying that thing is impossible to hit, OK it's bigger than a fighter (which can be hit) but barely. On it's own, it's easy to hit, but when dodging 6 gunboat guns, even a straight flying gunship becomes near impossible to hit. If you're attacking from the side, the small size, turn rate and speed of the gunship makes it impossible to hit without ramming it, which is... ironically... illegal...

Mobility
If I'm 'jousting' a Gunship in my Praetorian, it really is just that, jousting. The turn rate of the gunship is so high, that's almost all I can do. I try and pass and turn quicker, I make the turn quicker by half a second, and the gunship's already facing me.

Firepower
6 turrets... With the exception of the Corsair gunboat and the likes, 6 turrets is 'normal' (maybe a forward gun but you know what I mean). Take that and it's size and mobility, you've got one uber-ship that can solo and survive for quite a long time (and even kill some) 5 bombers...



What should be done?
Nerf it or even delete it.

First of all the Orca needs to be fixed up, the stats are OK at the moment, but the forward gun needs work, hell give the forward gun a full hemi sphere arc, I don't care as long as that justifies the Gunship's nerfin'.

Options.
1. Remove the gunship's cargo hold, so only fighter armor can be mounted, and reduce hull(52.8k and below) so that one supernova/heavy mortar will kill it.
2. Reduce the number of guns, take 1 or even 2 turrets off, with that mobility 4 turrets ain't that bad.
3. Reduce it's energy so it can't just spam it's guns like a normal gunboat, but has to do quick passes and do damage in short intervals, reducing it's energy also means it won't be able to shoot cerberus, which should be the case since the info card says it's anti fighter.
4. Delete it. It's a star wars ship, the BHG already has the Orca, and BHs are infamous for spamming these things against a single fighter/bomber. We don't need it, everyone hates it, and it's abused. Just get rid of the damned thing.


Remember, I'm suggesting ONE of these options, not all of them together, so don't think that I'm trying to completely cripple the gunship. (with the exception of number 4;))