Nuclear mine balance

[Oggdo Bogdo]

If you really want to fix LFs, you need to do something about their shield. There's no point in doing anything about any sort of ordinance because any form of guaranteed damage on the hull will kill it rather effortlessly, regardless of whether it's 1-shot, 2-shot or 3-shot. And yes, forward nukes are guaranteed damage. Besides, missiles do a much better job at killing LFs when they're running.

HFs are not for duelling, the nuclear mine is precisely what gives VHF the advantage against HFs. Otherwise, everyone will just fly HFs since they scale much better in group fights, and if VHFs lose the duelling edge against them, HFs will just take over the VHF role of being an all-rounder.

The real problem with nukes is that they make for some absurd combos on SHFs that instakill ships up to VHFs (and then some) with pretty much 0 skill, and that they let bombers trade down and beat just about any snub in a duel with forward nuke. Killing VHFs with emp + snac bombers using nukes is actually pretty easy.

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