Battle Razors..

[Tenacity]

They are supposed to be used as hull breachers against capital ships.

They're supposed to be used against -smaller- capital ships.

Right now there is no reason whatsoever to use battle razors against cruisers or up if you've got a light mortar equipped.

Battle razor does 35,000 damage for 350,000 energy, with a 0.1 refire rate. That's an efficiency of 0.1 damage per energy and 3,500 damage per second with constant fire.

Light mortar does 150,000 damage for 1,000,000 energy, with a 0.25 refire rate. That's an efficiency of 0.15 damage per energy and 37,500 damage per second with constant fire. Even a small cruiser can fairly easily fire a light mortar every 5-10 seconds without energy issues.

Razors are by no means meant to be used against same-class ships, they're inefficient and dont do enough damage for that purpose. They're meant to be used against small ships which are too fast for mortars to hit - those being gunboats, gunships, and even bombers - and in some cases smaller destroyers like the kusari dessie which are otherwise difficult to hit with light mortars.

If a bomber pilot really wants to argue, he should argue about getting hit by cruiser primaries which do 1000-1500 damage per shot per turret, use so little energy that you can actually regen while firing 5-10 turrets constantly, and have 1000m/s speed with a longer range than razors have.

The only difference here is the shock effect of getting killed in a single hit instead of getting killed with multiple hits in a short timeframe. In fact, it isnt even possible to one shot an armored bomber with a cruiser razor - it does 35k damage, most bombers have 19+k armor before armor upgrades, and 50+k armor with a mk8 fighter armor upgrade.

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