Missile boats

[Telbasta]

I honestly dont see why anyone would load up almost full missiles, it destroys your ability to function against larger ships, even transports.

My main character flies a Kusari gunboat. My loadout is:
2x kusari gunboat missile turrets
2x solaris gunboat turrets
1x kusari gunboat forward gun

The fifth turret slot is empty because it's rear-fire only, and thus essentially useless.

I went up against a blood dragon yesterday who was flying a red catamaran bomber. It took me close to half an hour to beat him, and for a majority of the fight I was fully convinced that I wouldnt beat him. 9 out of 10 missile salvos went right through his ship like he wasnt even there, and the few that did hit almost always landed right after his shields recharged - so I did no component damage. His ship was manuverable enough to avoid my solaris fire as well.

After almost 30 minutes, I managed to keep his shields down with a few solaris shots and knocked out all of his equipment with a dozen or so missile rounds, and only then did he finally stop dodging and let me kill him. I think the fight would have lasted indefinitely if he continued to dodge.

My point is, I really dont think missiles are overpowered, at least when I've only got two equipped. He was not using cruise disruptors to destroy my missiles, and was not using countermeasures either - all he had to do was dodge and he could avoid the missiles entirely, which rendered my ship pretty much useless.

I dont know if it's a problem with the particular ship he was flying, but I know most VHF's and all light fighters can turn just as fast as the redcat, and would be able to avoid the missiles just as he was doing.

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