Gunboats Vs Destroyers or crusiers

[sovereign]

Useful (I hope) advice for cruiser vs GB, from the cruiser point of view;

Get up in his face. It negates some of the difference in dodging, and if you get really close, it negates hitbox/strafe speed differences entirely. However, the GB will know this and try to stay at ~1.3k; since he wants to move away, that will be giving him less shots while he moves around. Cruisers have more powerplant downtime than GBs (IIRC), so making both of you have to stop/slow down firing and move now and then is to the advantage of the cruiser. In the event they don't move away, you've pretty much got them; your DPS is bigger than theirs and you have more hull.


Also; asteroids ALWAYS benefit the smaller ship UNLESS you learn to use them to turn. It's really hard to do with cruisers since the hitboxes are hard to eyeball, but with GB on down I've been able to out-turn maneuverable VHFs by dinging off the asteroids at the right angles. It takes some practice, but it works.




As to the issue at hand, House GBs own caps if you learn to land that big forward gun. Liberty GB is amazing, and any of them can be used to tear up anything they can get in front of them. As far as bigger caps, it's a pretty tense fight going GB to CC or BC; when both know what they're doing it's one hell of a match, but I actually think it's probably easier to learn the CC side of it... but you do need some skill to be successful with it. Sort of like every other ship class.

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