Are ships too tough?

[Hielor]

Actually, mate, fighters win against any other class of ship. 3 fighters beat 3 gunboats, I've done it, 3 sabres versus 3 LN GBs. In the end after a long fight, we won. Now I've seen a single kraken/inferno sabre beating the **** out of another single gunboat, so 1 on 1s are also possible.

As for bigger ships - 3-4 VHFs beat a cruiser and 5-6 would kill the battleship eventually.

So yeah, fighter swarm > all.

I'm talking about single encounters. Sure, if you can solve any problem if you throw enough people at it, but I have to wonder--in your fighter vs. gunboat examples above, what were the gunboats doing wrong? With the high speeds of gunboat weapons, it seems to me that it would be very difficult for a fighter to get any time to shoot at the gunboat at all. Whenever I've gone against a gunboat in a fighter, if they were using anything other than razors/pulses I was dead very quickly due to how easy it is for a gunboat to hit a fighter.

Specifically in that 1v1 kraken/inferno sabre beating a gunboat...did the gunboat not have a shield generator equipped? It would take ages for the sabre to get the gunboat's shields down, given that he can only shoot the inferno once every 7 seconds. Not to mention that if the gunboat didn't like the way things were going, he could just cruise off...

As for cruisers and bigger ships, I've never really flown them or fought against them, so I can't really comment.