Revised Kusari heavy capital

[Tenacity]

Kusari Battlefield Runner-
Compare to Kusari Destroyer:
-Size
-Armor
-Power core
+Agility
-Cruiser Guns / +Gunboat guns
+Cruiser Forward Gun



The idea is an anti bomber/gunboat platform. It is essentially a heavy gunboat with a cruiser forward gun.

Great, just one more thing we need, a ship that has enough power to fire a cruiser forward gun, and on top of that can spam gb missiles, while being the size of a liberty gunboat -_-

Bad idea. The kusari destroyer is already overpowered in the fact that it's model has almost exactly the same hitbox size as a liberty gunboat, while keeping access to cruiser weaponry and power core. If anything, the Kdessie needs to get a new model that actually makes it a cruiser instead of a flying pwnmobile.

Rheinland Tactical Battlecruiser-
Compare to Rheinland Cruiser:
+Size
+Armor
+Powercore
--Agility
+Cruiser Guns / +Battleship shield
+Two Cruiser forward guns



The idea is a "Forward Punch" -SUPPORT- ship with 12 Forward facing turrets, two forward guns and the power to reliably fire them. Rubbish turning and flank cover. The point of this ship is to provide some good anticapital support, but only support. Bombers would be the end of this thing.

The third, which I won't model because I don't have Bretonian style down, is this:

Not a much better idea than the first, IMO. You're asking for two forward guns, which is more or less the bonus that two battleship turrets will give you, plus a battleship shield? Hell, they made us fight for a bs shield on the geb, and that only has cruiser turrets - plus, it's the size of a battleship, this thing would have to be just as large to apply.

Bretonian Long-Range Support Cruiser


Compared to Bret. Dessie:
---Armor
-Agility
+++Powercore
+Five Cruiser Turrets that all fire forward and are mounted on a broad plane[/indent]

Load up two missiles and three mortars or vice verse. This thing would be mauled up close, which is why it would need to stay back from the battle.

And, like every other cruiser out there, the only thing you'll be hitting at that range is a zoner juggernaut or rheinland battleship. Oh, and since these are all forward firing guns you've suggested, you cant use thrusters to keep distance from that ship and fire at it at the same time.


Unique ships very rarely work, but most of the time they're a balance nightmare and end up causing more problems and complaints than they fix.

Some cases in point:

-The Geb carrier: BHG cap pilots claim it's overpowered because it's got twice the shields, 50% more hull, and more firepower than their own battlecruiser. On the flip side, any order pilot that's used it hates flying it because of how horribly ineffective it is against anything smaller than an enemy cruiser. Also, despite it's apparent power against caps, it still cannot kill any decent battleship pilot. Now i'm having to wage a campaign to get that fixed -_-

-The Necrosis: Originally meant to be a standard battlecruiser, Dreygon argued that it wasnt effective enough to survive against small craft (the same problem all battlecruisers currently face). In return, it got the ability to mount gunboat turrets, but with a battlecruiser power core (3.6 million energy). Now it can spam gunboat missiles all day long, and it can use the just as effectively as a gunboat because of the thruster mount. On top of that, it still has cruiser turrets and battleship turrets - so everyone now complains that it's overpowered, even for a 'unique' ship.

There are others, but none i've had enough experience on to properly ridicule. In short, the point is... stay away from 'unique' ship types, and let's keep things balanced, mmkay?

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