Gunboats beating Cruisers

[mjolnir]

Single gunboat can not kill a normally flown Cruiser, simply can't.

If you are feeling lucky feel free to try: http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?sh...49550&st=30

So far there have been 3 takers and in 4 fights just once did the cruiser even lose shield for a moment (no hull damage though) :shok:

(the cruiser was RM cruiser, I can provide BHG or Kusari dessie as well, but both of them are even better vs gbs than the RM one). But note that I'm saying Cruiser not Battlecruiser as some BCs have specifically been made vulnerable to GBs/Bombers.

A well flown cruiser has about 50/50 chances vs 2 GBs as well.
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Now that cruiser kills GBs, what else can it do?

Kill other cruisers - check
Kill BS - in pairs - check

Kill fighters/bombers - not really, is that bad?

Though on saturday there was the OC fleet in Gamma and the 4 OC destroyers killed 3-4 Corsair Bombers without a single loss. And no the bombers were no bad pilots.:shok:


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All in all I don't see what cruisers need a buff for.

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[Exsiled_one]

Yeah those statements are bit off.

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[NonSequitor]

Though on saturday there was the OC fleet in Gamma and the 4 OC destroyers killed 3-4 Corsair Bombers without a single loss. And no the bombers were no bad pilots.:shok:
All in all I don't see what cruisers need a buff for.

4 OC cruisers (12 turrets, if I'm not mistaken) vs. 3-4 bombers. Not really a cause for bewilderment. I wouldn't be putting down any money for the bombers' survival against those kind of odds.

Now, if you had 2 bombers vs. a lone OC cruiser...

The cruiser primaries could do with a refire rate buff, without mucking around with range and dps.

[Alex.]

Gunboats are fine.

Leave them alone.

[pipboy]

Alright place yourselves into the following position. Your running a trading company, your traders get pirates to much that it effects your profit and the morale to much.
So you decide to set up a escort service to fly along with your traders in order to raise the morale and profits again. But those escorters run into a lot of gunboats who just makes short work of them.

I only read up to this point, but I can tell you this. If you're having that problem while escorting, then you aren't escorting correctly. A good escort should never ever get into a serious fight, that isn't his job. Once your escort is in the kind of fight that he dies in, he's already failed and the transports are doomed.

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[ophidian]

Capital ships in Disco is not as "capital ships" in realistic or "generally accepted sci-fi" terms. (PS: they are also not like that in vanilla FL as well, its not a Disco trait).

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[Bolverk]

How's gunboat overpowered? Two bombers or three fighters can kill almost any gunboat. I'd rather see gunboat buffed, now it can only fight transports, other gunboats and really bad fighters/bombers.

[CzeReptile]

Go to New York sometimes. Watch 8 gunboats kill entire Navy.
Reconsider. POst again.

hf

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[Gin*]

Previously it was possible to kill a Cruiser with a GB, i have seen it often in New York, but today it is no longer probably due to the better weapons like the light mortar or Razors and i am really glad we have now those Weapons for the Cruiser class:D

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[Akura]

How's gunboat overpowered? Two bombers or three fighters can kill almost any gunboat. I'd rather see gunboat buffed, now it can only fight transports, other gunboats and really bad fighters/bombers.

Gunboats are fine.

Bomber and Fighter swarms.