Battle Razors..

[Dab]

You'll just have to take getting raped by BRs in a bomber every now and then, try to stay at standoff range, or get a cap with BRs of your own.

Get a cap with BRs of my own.. That is exactly what I'm stating the problem will become. Cruisers will be the only ship ever used because they can kill fighters, bombers, gunboats, and other cruisers. Only thing that can kill it now is a battleship.. Battleship shows up, destroyer just thrusts out of its range. No threat from any ship except another cruiser. And again; Why should we sacrifice two of the most important ship classes, those this game was built around (fighters), just so the cruiser can hit a gunboat with battlerazors, when its fully capable of killing it without them?

It isn't all that easy to hit a manuvering bomber with a BR (I know quite well this). In this case, you were probably up against a skilled marksman so nerfing the hardware is the wrong way to go.

It is all that easy to hit a maneuvering bomber with a BR. At least now it is, now that they fire at a speed of 800m/s. And as Tenacity said.. Takes only 1/8th of a BC's energy bar.. It can fire EIGHT of them at a time. Or chainfire two, getting one shot off every 5 seconds.. One of those BRs WILL hit its target. Cruisers will get something around 1/5-1/6th of the bar per BR shot.. Thats still quite a bit, and plenty to kill a fighter/bomber. And the pilot was someone I've fought in the past. It had nothing to do with his skill at aiming, it had to do with the speed of the battlerazors.

And @ Tenacity;
Takes 1/8th of a Battlecruisers energy bar.. Thats 8 at a time.. And this is not spam? I didn't even use the word spam, all I said was repeated firing. Is 8 consecutive shots not repeated? And with the refire time, a BC could probably fire one indefinitely, with the occasionally gun shots to drop a fighter/bomber shield. Cruisers won't be able to fire quite as often, but still plenty, and they turn faster.

And you use the Mini-razor as an example of being used to hit smaller ships.. Your own example proves my point. Razors are meant to be used against same-class ships. Fighters/bombers use mini-razors on other fighters/bombers. Both the Battle Razor and Mortar are anti-cap weapons. Battlerazors do less damage, but also use less energy, mortars do a lot more damage, but use a ton of energy. Its a choice matter. Battlerazors are NOT meant to be used on smaller ships. And even if they were, not so far that a cruiser can hit a fighter. Furthermore, killing a gunboat; Is that not what primary turrets are for? And if you think a cruiser has a hard time hitting a gunboat/gunship, how about you bring a GB up to Hokkaido and I'll teach you first hand just how easily a cruiser can demolish a GB. They aren't that much faster, and their guns have a much shorter range than a cruiser.. So the only way for the GB to hit the cruiser is to get close, where the Battlerazor can hit it, regardless of the speed. Therefor, such a gigantic speed is unnecessary, for 200-300m/s would work perfectly fine for hitting GBs, while also stopping cruisers from having spectacular anti-fighter weaponry. Anti-fighter weaponry that kills instantly, fires quickly, and is so large that aiming isn't a problem (look at the size of the BR firing effect.. Hitting your target is not difficult in the least).

And you say it fires less often than a Supernova? Obviously you don't use a bomber often, for it is far longer than 10 seconds between Supernova shots. It takes at least 20 seconds to recharge the energy enough for a second shot, if not more.

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