Cruiser Balance

[looqas]

I'll try to explain one thing to you. You have different tactics in this game.
If a GB chooses to joust-turn-joust a bomber, a bomber stands some chance.
If a GB goes in a straight line strafing and shooting from rear view on a bomber - bomber has no chance.
Now of course, some bigger ones like Bret GB or such are easier to take on 1vs1.
But standard GB's (like Rogue, Liberty GB, Kusari GB, Lunchbox etc) simply pwn a bomber 1vs1.

I sign here. You beat a bomber using these every time.

When flying a bomber I'm seriously in trouble when someone uses EK and strafe.

To even the field I need to equip Train CD -> which prolongs the time to take down the enemy significantly since Inferno is out of the question. And any one-eyed-eddie will hit my bomber (I fly mostly Thor, with it's hitbox disadvantages) and will eventually win the race against time. I'm not that good SN user that I get every SN count. And my 4x codes suck the power plant pretty dry in any case.

But if I have Inferno equipped then he can just enter EK and that's it. Even with thrusters I need to tail the sucker and the more I dodge the incoming fire the more time is needed to catch up. Another alternative is that I do not chase and let him turn around unmolested while his shields are recharging. And more often than not when I manage to start to scratch their hulls they suddenly don't have that much fun anymore and just cruise away leaving my mangled bomber. And the looping around the hull is in all practical purposes very hard to execute if the guy is EKing. At least I have not attained that kind of mastery in flying yet.

In all of engagements I run through nanos and bats at a pretty good clip. In my case it's always a race against time. Time is a bomber pilots worst enemy since the more you spend the more chances you give the opposition to give you a full volley.

All in all. I'm clearly at a disadvantage in 1vs1 if the adversary has any inkling of how to fly and fight. I'm cool with that since it makes me appreciate the victories that much more.

I agree somewhat that bombers should not be able to toe to toe with Cruisers, but GBs are a different matter. Bombers should be able to fare better against GBs than against Cruisers.

Since I'm pretty often alone (of my faction) in the server I have two options: Either let the caps have free reign or try to take on the guys. And given the recent trend what my opposition (corsairs) are flying it gives a lot of practice in my bomber. Luckily most of the guys are flying the Handbags are rookies, but they will learn.

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Flying under radar.