Why I respect the bomber...

[jammi]

Heres the thing, Bombers should never win over fighters. EVER. I dont care if its "rare". VHF's are meant to take out bombers. Currently, 2 VHF's cannot kill two bombers fast enough before it kills the BS. That is not how it should be. This is why fighter's need access to weapons with 1,000 M/s shots so it is far harder to a bomber to keep concentrated on the capital.

Well, I recently had experience with this, where me and one other bomber (Warans mind you - they've a Barghest powerplant) pirated and then killed an IMG Carrier. He was of course without escorts, and killing him took absolutely forever. He only had a Cap II upgrade, and if he'd been totally upgraded, the fight would have been even longer yet.

If that Carrier had even a single escort, we would have been mince-meat. Killing any large capital ship is not quick (but then it's not hard either - just sit at 2K and snipe), and escorts have plenty of time to chase down attackers. My Waran is regularly chased down and mauled by OPG Titans, and I'm forced to flee.

Escorts do have time and bomber are not the 'I win' button. I've scored plenty of SNAC kills on other bombers, but I could count SNAC kills I've scored on fighters on one hand, after it's been mangled by a bear trap.

Erm... thats what I do.

Im doing it wrong?

Assign the SNAC's weapon group activation to the mouse wheel click. The game calls it 'Mouse 3'.

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