' Wrote:3x why:)why cant be battleship main force of sirius
1. They are sooooooooo expensive (Rheinland lost almost all of them in war with GMG a.k.a against guerila style fighting FIGHTERS and it taken 80 years till Rheinland rebuilded fleet +/- same as before. It almost caused state bankrot).
2. They are sooooooo slow (again last known big war from lore: Rheinland fleet was slaughtered in sigma 13 just because they lost suport of fighters.... caps was unable to stop their doom, they wasnt even able flee).
3. They are sooooooo easy target for fighters (did you played SP... 1st mission = cap fail, RM/GMG war = cap fail, nomie/RM shipyards in SP = cap fail).
Say something like "caps are backbone of FL army" is lie. OFICIAL LORE OF THE GAME say fighters are.
That brings us top another problem. They said capships are too big to go trough unstable JH.
I think the only reason why GMG achieved a DRAW in most of the battles in sigma 13 is because
the capships lost a lot of crew, guns and hull quality just streaming trough the NB <->sigma 13 Jump Hole.
And no, they couldn't use the gate if the GMG shut it down from the other side. + you only see cap wrecks
from the JH side, only station/fighter wrecks further out.
So no, I don't agree with your statement. Fighters are still weaker than capships, hence why
Rheinland still spams them.
We are not talking here about Ace pilots such as players (who can solo a NPC capship in a LF)
Were talking here about NPCs, and you could see that during the SP caps obliterated any pirate
patrol in like SECONDS while it took minutes for a regular police fighter patrol to deal with 'em.
