Missile boats

[Dusty Lens]

I believe what Mjolner meant by that, and assumed that his audience would naturally understand (and not without good cause) is that missile boats generally chain fire either pairs or single missile turrets. The first salvo is all six + missiles, but each two given a half pause in between shots fired.

That will indeed strip a fighter of his shields in the first pass and destroy vanilla ships/remove the ability of a small craft to carry on the fight in the second. If the pilot knows how to use missile effectively he can destroy a fighter in the very first pass.

True, you could use CMs to deter the missiles. But your reserve of CMs will be depleted in seconds.

True, you could use CDs to stop the missiles, but you will be forced to spend the fight spamming CDs at the gunboat rather than being able to focus on the fight.

In a battle of attrition, a gunboat or ship with full missiles has the advantage of a sizeable shield to hide behind and no ammo concerns. It requires very very little skill to be effective in and is absolutely devastating against smaller craft. It's simply unsporting.

But this is all academic, the point being that people do not enjoy the intent behind such a setup, which is basically to run in and pwn as efficiently as humanly possible. Cruising about various battlefields ignoring opponent A against which you are 100% ineffective but looking for opponent B whom you can slaughter with no effort at all.

When a fellow rigs himself up to kill without effort and pointedly seeks out players against whom he'll be the most effective it speaks volumes about his personality and the sort of enjoyment that he's actually here to seek out.

My two cents.