Missile boats

[Telbasta]

1st salvo - whole shield
2nd salvo (or actually you need just 2 missiles) - ship destroyed

That's a bit of an exagerration.

When fighting that dragon bomber last night, it took a solid 3-4 salvos (of two missiles each) just to drop his shields, and that's when they actually hit him. two missiles hitting generally only dropped his shields by around 30%, give or take.
And after that even, solid missile hits on his hull when shields were down only dropped his hull strength by maybe 20%, hence why it took so long to kill him.

I think the fighter pilots are really exagerrating when it comes to how effective capship missiles are, or how difficult they are to avoid. Like I said before - he's in a bomber, and even the red catamaran is only on-par with VHF manuverability - yet he was able to dodge close to 9 out of 10 missile salvos without using any cruise disruptors or countermeasures.

IMO, the only reason fighters complain about it more, is because they dont have the firepower themselves to take out a gunboat's shield/hull, whereas a bomber does.

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