Gunboats

[Tenacity]

I think the GBs are fine. It's been months since the 4.85 first came out and there have not been major complaints about them.

It's just that you need to learn how to use your ship most effective in situations. When you are in a GB you are never without chances (unless it's a 3 or more bombers) in which you can just hope to down one or two. I've never personally lived in a GB through an engagement if I'm up against 3 or more bombers.

I'll bring out the fight I was in the other day... again...

There were, I think, 4 bhg bombers (could have been 3 though, was hectic), and I believe 2 bhg gunboats, in delta. We jumped in with 3-4 fighters, a bomber, an osiris, a recon destroyer, and two gunboats.

Yes, for the first 30 seconds of the fight, I was doing pretty good, I chewed into the hull of several of the bombers. Then they decided "oh hey, this gunboat might actually be able to kill us, let's shoot at it", and I was dead within 20 seconds.

I dont think it's possible to dodge snacs in the order gb unless you're at 2k range, either that or these bhg guys were ace gunners, which I'm doubting at this point. All in all, the second those bombers decided to target me, I was dead, no way out of it. I was dodging my heart out (and if there's one thing I've become good at here on disco, it's dodging... my aim may suck but I can usually avoid fire pretty well), and I still got hit with all but one snac that was fired at me, and that one barely missed.

Further, while being shot at, there was no chance in hell I could actually fight back, the GB cannot keep on a bomber's tail - it simply turns too slowly. Now, ships like the BHG gunship or kusari gb might be 'fine' in your book, since they've got fairly decent agility and much smaller size, but the larger gunboats? They're still balanced around the idea of being anti-fighter/bomber vessels, but lack the tools to accomplish that.

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