The Rheinland Bomber

[Ant]

More and more I've been starting to think that the presence of bombers is detrimental to Discovery.

My reasoning:
1. They can easily defeat most capships 1 on 1 while only being a fraction of the cost.

Groups can use fighters and bombers to defeat larger groups of fighters and capships.
Why? Because capships are ineffective against both fighters and bombers. The capships are often reduced to the role of spectator in fighter and bomber battles.
The side with the fighters and bombers goes after the other sides fighters first, and after taking them out can easily pick off the capships.

The problem here is that there will soon be no incentive to use capships and many will simply stop playing as the capships are one of the attractions over other mods.

2. They are replacing the job of many existing gunboats.
The gunboats with large forward gun are effectively a bomber as it is. They can be beaten by a well flown fighter or two but have considerable firepower against larger capships.
However, a single bomber can take on a gunboat and expect to win.


I have given it some thought and although it is possible to defend against bomber attacks in a capship through use of tactics, overall the bomber has the upper hand.

The balance of capships and fighters seems right.
The lack of ability for capships to take on fighters...or fighters to take on capships has never really been a problem.

Bombers completely change the game.
To prove it, I've used a bomber against several capships and won easily. I am not a very good fighter/bomber pilot(especially on high ping) and have no real desire to fly a bomber, however with the game dynamic changed to this extent, I will have no choice.
For me, the bomber takes much of the enjoyment out of the game.

Thoughts?