BHG Gunship

[mjolnir]

The GB picture that dusty posted has more to it actually, all the other GBs have hitbox that is bigger than the ship.. but yes it gives some perspective.

I forgot that changing hardpoints would require playerwipe. but you can also change firing arcs on the turret to get one less forward firing

OK.. then the maybe 300k powerplant, definitely 240 cargo and a small size increase or agility nerf would do fine. I say small increase because1 I'd like for it to stay usable and different. If you make it as big as all other GBs it will get boring and Orca will get redundant yes.


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@Meggido
I have had one for quite some time so no it's not only from people that have to fight them ( as you may notice Frozen flies one a lot as well). I'm always arguing to make all ships as balanced and usable as possible no matter if I fly in them or against them. Actually I fly both in and against just about any ship around.

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I have met a few Cap 8 armored ones lately, and only thing that saved me was the lack of skill of their pilots.

From my BHG GS flying (and I'm not an ace GB pilot, I can name over 10 that are much better )

1. With 1-2 missiles it's impossible to beat me in it by a single bomber - tried a lot of times against Frozen in Red Catamaran with SN + Mini + 4 Archangels, if he can't do it, nobody can.

2. With 1-2 missiles and cap 8, 2 bombers in over 90% of fights can't beat it, even one ace bomber pilot + one above average both in catamarans couldn't kill me.

3. If you focus on SN dodging you can evade almost all of them - talk to NovaPG attacking me with 7!!! bombers, I simply dodged the SNs in the gas field in S13 until they all got blasted by the explosions.. Oh and I didn't had capship armor, but yes I lost shield once.

4. With the size and agility it has it can never be taken down by a bs/cruiser as long as it stays over 1k. Once I even waltzed trough Alpha with RoS dread under 600ms behind me all the way - firing then cruising to close up then firing again, all the way from Tau 37 JH to Beta JH, I never lost my shield.

=> there is no real way to counter it, since it rapes bombers, dodges SNs, and dodges capship fire. Swarms of fighters do work yes... but we are talking about >3 fighters with very good pilots and corresponding armament.

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