Blade Durrant
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Posted - 2004.01.07 04:13:00 -
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Edited by: Blade Durrant on 07/01/2004 04:15:21
If it wasnt for drones, frigates could very well be a viable threat to a BB. Any frigate with Nuetron blasters, an mwd, and enough time, could orbit with the mwd at close range, and blast the **** outta most BB configs unless they were running missiles or large smart bombs. Missiles are very very weak compared to guns, and im afraid that the nerfing continues. If we're gonna use real life examples consider this:
A cruise missile should kill most cruiser down ships. A standard Iowa class BB has 21 in? (i believe this is right it could be slightly less or more, i havent checked jane's lately) of armor plating, and probably would take many cruise missile hits to destroy. However, one well placed torpedo will destroy ANY ship. Of course torps are relatively short ranged, but are extremely fast (60 knots +, compared to the 40+ knots most vessels are theoretically capable of, and yes an CV can probably hit or execeed this given its prob configuration and engine setup) and extremely maneurable, however, a torp would have no chance of hitting a speed boat. And cruise missiles are very much a danger to most surface vessels (including frigates) as unless you shoot it down, or it runs out of fuel, its likely gonna hit (since few ships can outrun a missile doing 300 mph +)
Back to eve. Missiles need a DRASTIC boost in dmg. Personally i think missiles should have an agility factor, and also that low end missiles (lights, rockets, hvys, defenders) need a drastic increase in speed (like 10x for lights, less for rockets hvys and defenders). I think its fine for a kestrel to fix multiple cruise missiles if it wants, just needs to make a way to hit that kestrel easily (lights should be a threat to frigates, and hvys should be a threat to cruisers and torpedoes darn sure should be a threat to BB, especially as there text say they were designed to destroy stationary and slow moving targets). Missiles are drastically underpowered as it is and this just makes them even more underpowered in my mind. Currently Im running a moa with 4x 250 rails and 2x h50s and i dont want to have to rescale my ships armament and loadout because CAREBEARS keep complaining about missiles. Although i am about to switch to proj's on my turret pts.
/end rant
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