There is no damn water. There is no damn ground. There is no damn air.
There is space.
Why are battleships so useless in RL? They are easy enough to kill by aircraft and don't have the range of bombers etc.
However, stick a battleship in the air and boom, you have a bloody monster.
An aircraft that can shoot down fighters due to advanced targetting systems and lots of armour and also can bomb the living daylights out of everything on the ground. Now that is a plane.
Which is how a Battleship in Freelancer really ought to be. It makes Zero sense that a battleship should fall easily to a few bomber in space if it is properly made.
Why would the Sirius forces even construct battleships if bombers are so good against them?
This is not WW2. There is no air or water, only space. The key advantage that aircraft had over battleships was the fact they were in the air and it was in the water. Put them both in space and that advantage goes 'Poof'.
This is the bloody future people, why do we fix things in Vanilla FL but then use things in Vanilla FL as the norm? If that's the case, I demand we put back in the bugs since that's how it was in normal FL.
Honestly, Sindroms has a point, a very good one.
EDIT: Oh and McNeo, I simply build hordes of Disciple frigates and eventually replace them with Illuminator frigates mixed with Desdra Crusaders, plus some capitals. The carrier frigates in SoaSE go down far too quickly for my liking. Steamrolling your enemy is always fun too:P
