Well , seeing as someone brought up the AT as beeing a true civ GB , i did a lil research and i came to quite a few interesting conclusions!
Well, first of all , the AT is quite smaller than a GB ( No duh , eh ?) and more manouverable than even the lightest GB. Belive me. My old char AndrewChaotix (the BH pilot smuggler, which i will be setting up again since my old acc is gone) had an AT and ive had a BH char with a BH gunship. Also , it can thrust at 190 speed, just like a fighter. Meaning it can out-manouver a GB.
Secondly, the maximum damage that can be achieved with it is quite close to that of a GB. I did some calculations ( expensive word? YUS!) and:
An AT, equiped with full Transport 4 turrets (which is 7 for those who dont know) and 2 coddies ( the ones i tried out were Golden Blades, which are ... quite good so) had a DPS (damage per second) of 17600 hull and 8800 shield.
A GB, with 6 Liberty Gunboat Turrets ( which are some quite decent turrets, me thinks) had a DPS of 18000 hull and 9000 shield.
Well if you have at least a couple of working brain cells , you will realise that those 2 values are quite close to each other. Meaning a fully armed AT and a fully armed GB have simmilar damaging capabilities.
Now lets take a look at defensive capabilities. This is where the AT starts falling short a lil bit.
An Adv. Transport shield has 900 regen and 100000 capacity
A Gunboat shield has 2200 regen and 140000 capacity.
So , shields-wise , the AT has less than half the regen and about -1/3 the capacity. BUT , however it, beeing smaller , can dodge fire much easier , unlike most gunboats , in which its a dificult task.
Hull-wise , the AT has 60k hull. The nimblest ( just not to say weak:P) GB has 55k ( the BH gunship, see , nimble!:P) and the strongest one has 140k ( which is the rheinland GB... darn , that thing must be slower turning than a turtle). So , it doesnt have a too bad hull.
Now the final point is general equipment. The AT can only have a CM. A Gunboat can have both a CM and a CD. So , if you are on an AT , you might have a lil problem stoping people. Also , bots/bats-wise. The AT can carry 240 of those lil buggers. Now , the least amount a GB can carry is 280 ( which is the BH gunship) and the max amount is 480 (on the corsair lunchbox and the bretonian GB). I havent quite calculated how many times you could regenerate your shields fully with those 3 amounts , maybe i will later, but bottom line is , a GB can regenerate more HP.
Conclusion: With all the facts stated above , you might wanna take a second look on the good old AT before choosing a GB. Or not. Its all up to you. I just found funny, all these numbers and stuff. Makes me feel safer when i get my AT. Plus , i had a half hour to spare, so i did something pointless.
I never put class 4 trans turret on my AT. Let me say, its bad vs gunboats, not too terible vs bomber and very efficient vs fighters. except when nuke mine spam begins.
Though the cargo capacity would be severely reduced, you could put a Cap. Mk. VIII on there. =D
A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay,
brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
Just finished reading your posts. Its nice to see someone in my side in the fight against GBs!:P
Oh yea , and *facepalm* I forgot about the flat profile and power output. Do you mind me adding those to my post ?
EDIT: If you do let me , ill only do it tomorow , since today its late and im tired as hell. Gnight everyone.
you can take from mmy posts whatever you want, there are no secrets markable with copyright sign:)if you want just copy and paste whole comparation I dont care.
You cant fire those 7 guns continuously, nor do all guns face the same direction (you can get about 4-5 firing forward, plus the two level ten fighter guns).
One interesting note with the level 10 gun slots - they have a firing arc that allows them to point almost backwards. I actually mounted a para/SW missile combo on those slots.
Very hand to shoot missiles back at pursuing bombers! It is like a Transport Class Missile Turret.
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