Capships re-examined

[El Nino]

all points 1 - 6 are already true... 10 VHF's dish out astonishing damage about 50k per second... even more per burst... bombers deal out an even bigger damage, 4 bombers for example can do 50k's per second. And that's the ammount battleship can do. So yes a continual fire for 1 second from a battleship can take out a fighter, IF it's dumb enough to stand in place.

I won't bother spricing up the details, your guidelines are all true, much to the hate of capital ship captains... You can hardly make them more expensive, as right now a fully kitted BS costs you about what's the hardcoded price limit. Think of it this way, 1 fighter costs 2M one BS costs 750M it takes 10 fighters to take it down, that's 730M less,...

To illustrate the real problem... 3 bombers show up after a gunboat, this gunboat calls in 3 cruisers, 2 bombers and one light fighter. Who do you think lives in the end? hint: 1 gunboat and the LF, on the other side one bomber flees alive. The moment you have a few bobmers with supernova, every cap except perhaps a gunboat that's flown to the limits, is fish bait. I've flown Osiris in battle time and again, you see many bombers you run, you try to fight them off, but if they are skilled enough there's nothing you can do but prelong the enevitable.

In anycase, where did this notion come from that you have to WIN everything, much can be gained by not loosing. Flee if you have to, there's nothing more in Role than staying alive...

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