Idea on Capships, Bombers, and VHFs

[Camtheman Of Freelancer4Ever]

Yeah, look at the werewolf... Its a GIANT target from the sides, in fact thats the ship i got mini razored in.

[Akumabito]

The only bomber I fly is the BD cat, ugly as it is...

I have one more in the early stages of set up, forget the name, it looks like a fighter and handles noticeably worse than the BD cat but not that much worse than a shf.

[mjolnir]

But still, bombers shouldnt be able to take on a fighter and win.

Agreed, if both are equally skilled .

If a noobish-to average player fights one of the aces he will die.

People can kill VHFs in freaking freighters when they are better pilots....

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Igiss says: Martin, you give them a finger, they bite off your arm.

[Othman]

There are some good points in here. I like the idea of boosting the overall firepower capacities of VHF class. About siege cruiser though, it would be fun to have but it would also need to have a major drawback for the compensation of its mad range.

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On the uncharted lagoons of anguish, I sail with a canoe made of my sins.

[gekerd]

but in fact a bomber with full anti-shield weapons and a nova, can take out a fighter, if flown average, pretty easy, ( if he can hit a torp)

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[Camtheman Of Freelancer4Ever]

How many VHF's are equal to one bomber?

[Akumabito]

but in fact a bomber with full anti-shield weapons and a nova, can take out a fighter, if flown average, pretty easy, ( if he can hit a torp)

Bombers should be complete bricks to fly, something between a vhf and a GB, that way all the vhf has to do is dodge till his shields regen.

There should also be a noticeable size difference between a bomber and a fighter, the bomber being larger.

[mjolnir]

:lol:

What about taking the Stuka, SBD, SB2C or Il-2 or something like that in the picture?

Also you have FW-190 and P-47 there... both of which have their fighter-bomber versions. Specially the P-47 was much more used for bombing than any actual fighting.

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Igiss says: Martin, you give them a finger, they bite off your arm.

[Akumabito]

If you are talking about a fighter/bomber class, thats basically what you mimic with a shf and a mini razor, right?

[cmfalconer]

nice picture.

What part of "this is not world war 2" don't people get? this is roughly 1000 years later. even considering the "second dark age" of repopulating Sirius before technological advancement took off again, don't you think that with nano-technology and the like, the biggest thing in the craft would be the environmental controls and the pilot? Maybe not, with the fact most technology hasn't gotten considerably smaller, and what has just makes room for more stuff.

But if you MUST use the analogy of WW2, then fine. WW2 bombers had to be that big to carry the physical ordinance called Bombs, hence the name. Sirius, thanks to the Order and those profit-seeking Zoners, has the SuperNova AntiMatter Cannon. No physical ordinance necessary, just lob tachyon-encased globules of destruction at your nearest enemy.

Now one would argue, "But Chris, with such destructive potential, and such huge energy drains, the ship would need to be big enough to house a thermonuclear reactor". Perhaps, but again, we're One Thousand (1000) years after Sol. We've already sent small nuclear reactors called RadioIsotope Thermoelectric Generators into space since the 1960s on spacecraft. It's reasonable to assume that this technology would have been enhanced and built upon to be able to put a small fusion (thank you HFuel) reactor into all ships, and a bigger version fits into the already-correctly-sized bombers of Sirius.

This larger size and higher armor leads to a decrease in maneuverability, which (hold your gasps please) already has most bombers at a lower maneuverability than the VHF counterparts. Yes, i do say most because there are some VHF's that are horridly undermanueverable, but for the most part it's OK by my account.

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