Lilith Velkor
Minmatar
Heretic Army
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Posted - 2010.12.27 20:28:00 -
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 Originally by: Ephemeron
If BC's were forced to use Large rigs, it would make them much more fair relative to cruisers and battleships.
Costs matter.
It was well after the rig change when RR BS were king, and you'd see them everywhere.
If you wanted to have large rigs on battlecruisers, we'd need to introduce x-large rigs for battleships, and capital rigs for it to make any sense.
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Lilith Velkor
Minmatar
Heretic Army
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Posted - 2010.12.28 03:21:00 -
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Edited by: Lilith Velkor on 28/12/2010 03:25:42
Its all just the blob, counter-blob, counter-counter-blob problem.
About from 6 up to 12 months back we have been rolling mainly RR BS fleets. Nothing else really, I didnt even own a battlecruiser most of the time. You could engage fleets much larger than your own, when things get really tense escalate and bring a triage carrier.
This method worked pretty well, until at some point word got out that beating a well-organized RR BS fleet is done most effectively by just bringing 3-4 times the numbers, and having capital superiority in case of escalation.
I dont regulary fly battleship anymore, it is mainly since the only thing that will happen these days is that you get absolutely overpowered by sheer numbers, and battleship class leaves little room for actual piloting skill.
If you are losing the EHP and damage race, there is not much you can do to change that fact, and you definitely are losing it when the enemy has the ability to bring multiple times your numbers and reship close to the battlefield if they just have a little time.
There is nothing wrong with the relation battlecruiser to battleship, the thing is with the current mentality of just bringing at least twice the numbers to take on any given fleet, it is lost if you dont have the ability to escalate to capitals, and all thats left is skirmishing the enemy in smaller ships, killing a few and disengaging. Battlecruisers are those ships.
Battleships are for when you intend to end that fight no matter what, and hold the field. If its about hitting hard for a limited time and disengaging when the inevitable reinforcements arrive, its battlecruisers.
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