Every one here who wants to make capships better are ... UNSKILLED !!!
What's making you will win a battle or not is not the weaponry (as everyone seems to look at) but the skill ! If you don't have skills and you want to be a pvp whore, train yourself in Connecticut or become a corsair pirating in Sigmas (there is a huge dragon/gmg/hessian/outcast fleet there) !
Also you can ask one of the best bomber who fight and killed me : [RHA]Arado aka [RHA]Wuerger or his mate [HT]Claus.Rheinhardt
I was killed by those 2 pilots in falcatas while I was in my gunboat with 350 bots / 60 bats ... They will confirm I was a really hard target (they were close to their death).
But ... here my weapon configuration :
1 * Cerberus turret
7 * Order turret 0 * Missile turret
0 * Razor turret
0 * Inferno turret
If you want to kill bombers in singular fight, GET THE SKILL FOR IT !
A flak turret will make me absolutely invulnerable to the bombers. I want fair fights, not crappy ones cause unskilled capwhores decided they are too weak with actual weaponry !
I hate the capwhores cause they think they have to be the strongest.
Also, for the ones thinking I'm concentrating my skills against bombers, I may tell you all I'm actually able to shot down any vessel up to cruisers, even I'm only a gunboat.
DO NOT UP THE POWER OF CAPS !
DROP OFF THAT MISSILES AND FLAK CANNON IDEA !
UP YOUR SKILLS !
Also, I hate capwhores. (that mean half of the server hehe)
To comment some what you said.
[RHA]Arado is indeed a good pilot. [RHA]Wuerger is a shared ship account so any number of RHA pilots has access to it. You yourself are also a good pilot. So skill definitely plays a big part out there. To me I'd rather take on a BH BC on my own than try my hand on against your ZweiHander or Jure's [OPG]whateverHawk. Both Corsair GBs that are supposedly very easy to hit.
I personally fly quite a bit of bombers so just observations here. Soloing anything is not as easy as many people make it sound. If you are flying GB or larger all you need to do is put pressure on the bomber pilot so that he will miss his snac. All it takes is miss one snac and the bomber pilot is in square one minus bats and bots he has used to keep the bomber afloat. If you are able to solo (no matter how good you are in your bomber) a GB or bigger then the cap flier is doing something wrong.
I'd say 3 is bare minimum in 4.84 to take on a battleship (given that BS captain can aim at all). And those 3 need to be able to stay alive pretty long. And it takes a while too for 3 bombers to bring down a BH BC while it is a relatively big target. SNACs are not instakill weapons. So you have plenty of time to try to bring down a bomber. Don't panic. Keep firing steadily, since all bomber pilots will evade the incoming fire thus not being able to close in on a SNAC firing distance so quickly. If you find you have hard time hitting the targetted bomber, switch targets. Almost certainly you will catch the other pilot by surprise and he might be the weakest pilot of the bomber wing.
Despite RHA's very hard efforts we still have not managed to bring down Camtheman's battleship Aachen. And we have tried to do that quite often. Battleships can soak up really impressive amounts of damage, so usually they can also try to disengage. The worst mistake any BS pilot can make is being too far out of dockable base. So like Jure said, think ahead about your position.
The Cruisers are IMO in the most vulnerable position. And it has nothing to do with weapon damage output against bombers. Cruisers weaponry is more than enough to bring down any number of bombers. But she can't since the cruiser can not soak up damage that much and does not have that much maneuverability to make the SNACs miss that often.
So people, if you are looking for a challenge to become the master cap flier get a cruiser and start climbing the pretty steep learning curve.
People love to compare stats with weapon damage etc, but they tend to forget that even now it takes 2-3 people working together to bring down 1 person in most cases. Making it requiring more actual persons to counter one person is just going to drive people fly bigger ships. Even more so since caps are grouping up nowadays. And what's the point in flying if there is no risk involved?
