Dealing with Liberty

[Reverend Del]

Before you spend all those credits, I suggest you send your Rogues to Magellan to train with The Lane Hackers and Hellfire Legion.
Its gotten to the point where we just laugh when we see capships headed our way.
I can tell you from experience that you definately do not need capital ships to blow up capital ships.
One bomber, one VHF, and one LF can disembowel a dreadnought. Just look for the Goliath's wreckage in our message dump.
Deny the arms race. Trust me, it can work.

It's not the caps so much that are the problem and I can assure you you won't see the bigger ships out all the time, there will still be restrictions on their use. It's more the recent trend at winning at all costs. The missile gunboats being an issue. When the LR was granted official we were thanked for heavily restricting capships. However recently the propogation of gunboats both within the official lawful factions and with the independents is forcing us to do something. Whilst I would love to be able to fly in huge packs all the time, it is next to impossible, the LR has only a small pool to draw from most of us operating in wildly different time zones. We can normally muster two or three at a time. Unless we really try. When they are chased by an entire pack of caps including GB's it dilutes the fun heavily. Inactivity will kill my faction and I will not let that happen. I gaurantee you will not see new recruits or even older Rogues flying GBs, and we are not increasing our destroyer amounts. It is simply one BS and four more gunboats, all active in different timezones. Plus an upgrade to better fighters for the higher ranks.

Additionally you have to understand that the LH can fly Sabres and Falcata's as a matter of course. The LR VHF of choice is the Greyhound, and our bomber sucks bad... As it stands there are only two Barghests operational in our fleet, one GB, and two dessies. That's it. The barghests are useless, and our VHF's have more armour but lack firepower. We can't compete against the capspam as it stands. Even if we got a squadron of uber bomber pilots. The platform we stand upon is just too shaky. We need some grunt and that's what this is designed to do. Give the Rogues some teeth.

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Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.