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Des Garcons
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Posted - 2008.05.10 10:08:00 -
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Suppose a player had covops to 4(20% dmg to bombs) could he one shot a swarm of fighters if the carrier pilot had drone durability to 5, or would it take 2 bombers launching at the same time to do it? Pretend the fighters are shooting at a pos gun so all they would have to do is fire the bombs at the gun to get all the fighters inside the aoe of the bomb.
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Ortos
Abyssus Incendia
THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2008.05.10 10:27:00 -
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O.o this looks like a usage of bombs that include the one getting shot at loosing more money then the one shooting. :P
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Red Harvest
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Posted - 2008.05.10 10:39:00 -
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Dmg from the bomb is simply not high enough to one shot the fighters.
At maximum you can get 8k dmg from one bomb (max skills + ship bonus) and fighters have 9750-10250 HP (Hull+Armor+Shield without resists) so you will need at least 2 bombs to take a swarm fighters out.
Drone Durability skill doesnt aply to fighters btw.
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dalaama
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Posted - 2008.05.10 11:28:00 -
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doesnt bomb cost a lot, like 1 mil each shot?
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Des Garcons
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Posted - 2008.05.10 11:59:00 -
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They cost about 10m per bomb but fighters are like 15-20m each so if you nuked a whole swarm of them even with 2 bombs its only like 20m for a 200m loss.
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Doctor Mabuse
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Posted - 2008.05.10 22:33:00 -
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Having tried this, the princely sum of 3.5k (approx) damage was done to a swarm of fighters with 1 EM bomb (I say approx because I was rather concentrating on warping somewhere else at the time!) Bear in mind that fighters have resists too.
I think we worked out that we would need 4 bombs to pop the fighter blob, which would be a good return on investment if the blob was big enough ;)
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HarderThisTime
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Posted - 2008.05.11 04:44:00 -
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Coordinating 3 bombers of same damage type (you'd want thermal btw)
on a fighterswarm... lets go back a bit.
Dropping bombs on a fighter swarm would only be viable when they're focusing on a capital ship, like a dread. To save the dread, ram the thing with 3 gallente bombers, drop thermal bombs, and warp out. Kablammo, dead fighter swarm.
Ok, as I was about to say, any such opportunity would probably be very laggy, as it'd involve capital ships with lots of fighters, as well as their support fleets. So, getting 3 unlagged undesynched fighters to the same spot at the same time, and making sure the pilots around where the bombs are dropped aren't using smartbombs (cause those will blow up the bombs, canceling the bomb explosion) all at the same time, not so likely.
But im sure its possible. It'd just be unlikely to have that sort of tactical force in the right place at the right time.
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