Capital Ship Flying

[Jihadjoe]

Well, yeh, flying caps does require skill.

Very few people do it well. I'm not a cap pilot by any standard. I'm acceptable in a Liberty Dread, but nothing special.

Knowing the capability of the ship you're flying is important. The Liberty Dread and other 'fast' battleships like it need a completely different way of flying to the heavy battleships like the Rheinland BB and OC Dread. With the heavy ships the general aim is to get close to your opponent and overwhealm it with your larger number of guns and higher hull rating.

With the lighter battleships you try to incease the distance between you and your opponent and use your strafe and turning to avoid the big guns like the heavy mortar. While using the fact the other guy is a sitting duck with the manueverability of a bungalow to make sure you hit with the big nasty shooters.

It's all about knowing what you ship does well and what it doesn't and loading the thing out right to do whatever job you have it set up to do.

That is just about the sum of my limited knowlege on how to fly caps. I'm utterly hopeless in cruisers and only a little better in gunboats.

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