BHG Gunship

[NonSequitor]

By pure serendipity I made an acquaintance with the BH gunship about 2 months ago and have been flying it every since.

Yes, the gs is a nasty piece of business. But an ubership it is not.

I am an average pilot who's had both bad days and good piloting the gs.

I've died more often than I have won.

The BH gs is a cd-magnet. If I'm facing 2 or more opponents, I won't be able to escape. I get cd-swarmed and it's all over but the decompression of my cockpit. Npcs take me out of cruise with wasps regularly.

The gs has 55k of hull. Even with mk 8 cap armor, the gs will disintegrate with 2 supernova hits to the hull. Unless my counting is flawed. All I know, is that 1 supernova takes my hull to a third. Two bombers will give any gs a run for it's money.

The gs unhittable? Dunno about that. I get hit a lot. Ask the HG who was flying his BD bomber against me in Sigma 13 and Chugoku. It was a close fight but in the end, I got tooled. And Asno, methinks you underrate your own aiming skills in that lunchbox of yours.

I'm going to attempt to be diplomatic here as I choose my next words.

It seems to me, that most of the folks desiring a nerfing of the gs are those who have to fight them.

And it seems that Bounty Hunters are damned if they do, damned if they don't, as far as their ships are concerned. It seems that the only way people (unlawfuls) would be happy is if the BH flew around exclusively in hammerheads. Nice, easy, impotent targets.

I've had to fight a few OC dessies and more than a few lunchboxes. I could wring my hands and write pages of complaints against the dessie being too powerful and too agile or the lunchbox having too many turrets. But I don't and I won't. What's the point?

In closing, I think the best way to balance the gs is to make it larger. Bigger target, more cargo room, more realism. 20 - 25% should be sufficient. At that size, it should still qualify as a gunship.

Peace.