Gunboats

[BaconSoda]

From what i've seen, Gunboats are anti fighter, bombers are anti gunboat, and fighters are anti bomber.

One bomber can very easily take on a gunboat. I personally have taken on a gunboat plus its escort (usually another bomber) in a bomber myself and won, so the gunboat is really very ineffective against bombers.

I'd like to say, a lone bomber v a lone Gunboat, with pilots of equal skill, the Gunboat will win, hands down. If you can CD a GBs Ekill and stay behind it, and it doesn't recognize that you do that and go into a defensive turret mode, then, yes, you can beat it, however, fighting a lone Gunboat in a lone Bomber is very hard to do when both pilots are adequate at their roles. This is because the SN recharges slower than the shield regeneration of the Gunboat, and if one mounts a razor instead of a

LFs cant kill bomber -alone-, but they are support fighters too, they are not designed to fight alone very much.

Meet my Hussar, please. :P

A Light Fighter can kill a bomber, however, it takes intuition and skill, as well. You have to know when to turn, when you can shoot, and all that jive. With perseverance, it isn't bad, but it takes a while...

I just thought of somthing.. Take the second CD/Torp mount off of the bomber. That way they would need another ship to CD for them. That'd give VHFs a use, they stop the traders (or capships) so the bombers can attack them.

VHFs already have to decide between torps or CDs, why shouldn't Bombers have the same issue? It'd balance the bombers and VHFs, so VHFs have a job that they are better at than GBs (and don't use the 'VHFs are better for small-scale fights' excuse Jinx.. Unless you want to show me 1 VHF beating 1 GB..) since the GB is slower. VHF will be better at CDing small targets, whereas a GB would have a harder time.

I'm almost tempted to say GBs shouldn't have CDs either, but thats an issue for another thread.

This could work. It would balance out bombers as well, in a way.

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