Sabres with Infernos

[Corsair]

Since the original thread got locked, I'm posting my edit here. This is me pulling a bunch of stats off of various sources and calculating the amount of time it would take for a 6x Wyrm 2 Sabre with an Inferno to kill a GB.

Gunboat Shield = 140k
Inferno deals 25k shield damage at 8,200 energy and .33 refire. So you can theoretically fire it every three seconds. The Sabre powerplant is 11,400 with 1,160 regen. 11,400 - 8,200 is 3,200. You'd have to wait about five seconds to refire it, so you can then fire it once every 6-7 seconds.

You can deal 25k damage every 5 seconds on average, which is easy to do while avoiding fire. A well-flown Sabre can, in this case, take down a Gunboat shield in 40-50 seconds. From there it's just time to pound on hull with mines and Wyrms.

The Imperator has 125,000 base armor. Say that it has a UAU8, making that into about 300,000. A Wyrm 2 does 650 hull damage. 6 x 650 is 3,900 damage per full barrage. It would take about 100 full hull barrages to kill a UAU8 Imperator without nanobots or batteries. Counting these into the equation, You'd need to hit the hull anywhere from 200-300 times. With a 3.03 refire, this translates to about 600-900 seconds of just attacking hull.

While the numbers seem large and scary, actually doing it ingame isn't that difficult, it just takes a while, especially if the gunboat is wasting energy rear-firing missiles, reducing turret cover. Without a CD, the gunboat can joust, but no good fighter pilot would joust a GB. They'd just Inferno and dodge.

Edlol: This is assuming the Sabre knows how to fight a GB.

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