Bomber balance

[ScornStar]

Note: What I post below is a concept. I want to discuss this before any stats proposals will be posted.

See, after yet another failed bombing session in my Thor against capship whorage I come to the conclusion bombers in this mod are using the wrong approach. Despite what some people think makes or breaks a fighter/bomber, the most significant attribute of all has got to be the hitbox and it's agility. As long as you can't get hit and you have some evading skill, you're very well untouchable. In the case of capital ships it is especially a difference with it's extremely fast guns, if the target is big or small. Some bombers are exquisitely big targets, so they turn out to be useless against capital ships. Which to me defeats the point of having a bomber.

Now what I propose is that all bigger bombers be actually made smaller and/or with a higher strafe speed, but to prevent them from turning into fighter busters, the bomber's turn rate should be significantly reduced to a point of just above the most agile gunboat. Some bombers don't need the size reduction (like the red catamaran), but others need it desperately (like the thor) so it can actually be of any use against the target it is meant to be good against, namely a capital ship. With the reduced turn speed it will be possible for VHFs to keep to a rear of a bomber, and bombers with ambition to destroy anything without fighter screens would be a thing of the past. It would only encourage more team work and mixed attacking groups.

Discuss.

I only read the first post so I appologize. It seems that a bomber shouldn't be able to easily or even hardly ever solo a capship, and two thors are very dangerous and unbeatable to a single cap if there is anything but the most favorable of battle conditions around. I havent fought you all much but maybe consider that. If Im wrong Im wrong.

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