Bomber "don't you dare!" suggestion

[CzeReptile]

Last week when RM lolstomped the LN in Texas, there was a repair ship on the RM side doing its job. Of course, I don't know how many regens it actually gave because LN folded so quick.

While the armor type idea would be a hard fix to the problem, I don't think that's necessary. I'm alright with the once-in-a-million shots that allow a bomber to take out a fighter. What I'm not OK with are people who regularly take on VHFs in their bomber and win. Yeah yeah, skill, fine you're more skilled than I am. That's not the point. The point is the fact that the bomber is even capable of such a thing is a problem. Bombers should not be a threat to fighters. Or they should be a minimal threat, like how they are now if the bomber doesn't use the SNAC. Solution? Make it difficult to the point of worthlessness for a SNAC to hit a fighter. The charge up is one idea - even better if it's a random charge up time between 0.5 and 1.5 seconds. The armor type thing I don't like just because it isn't "realistic". Or even better, weaken SNAC or make it a primarily anti-shield weapon and have the nova torp be the primary anti-hull weapon.

The Starlancer torpedo bombers were great, and I'd love to have bombers be more like that here. Stand-off, limited ammo, minimal weapons, tough shield/armor. Stay 4k away from the battleship and chuck torpedoes. Then the escort fighters would have to choose between shooting down torpedoes and shooting the bombers. And the bombers escorts would have to defend the bombers or escort the torpedoes as they go after the battleship. Wouldn't that be cool! Escorting torpedoes!

Or that!

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