Cargo pirate ships?

[Tenacity]

I actually took a bounty against an advanced train with my firefly transport the other day... I won, fairly easily I would say (the element of surprise helps a bit) - but it was a very long fight as I slowly whittled the guy's shields down, and I had to constantly disrupt the trade lanes and use cruise disruptors to keep him from running. Overally I probably disrupted lanes half a dozen times and I used almost 40 CD's.

Then again, the firefly only has 4 forward firing turrets. The biggest thing I would suggest is trying to avoid targets that use advanced transport shields or have armor upgrades. It is HARD getting through an adv. transport shield with only transport turrets, and most transports have quite a few bats and bots to use for regens as you try to wear them down.

Biggest issue is that a trader is less likely to pay (or give cargo to) a pirate flying a transport, simply because they know it will be very difficult for the enemy to take them down. When a trader sees a gunboat or bomber, they know there's no possible way they can win a fight, and most of the time they wont be able to get away, but a pirate in a cargo ship doesnt have nearly as much firepower available.

For now, yea, I'd probably say use the pirate transport. It's one of the few transports my firefly actually has trouble in a combat situation against (it has more guns available and has equal manuverability/armor). I might suggest using a tizona del cid turret for one of your forward firing hardpoints though.

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