Anti-Matter Torpedo

[Fyron]

Why, to watch it waste all of that damage potential by not firing its extra weapons on other ships, thereby making it no more effective than ships with APBs guarding that warp point? Large APB ships nearly always destroy their target in one round of fire at close ranges already, so using Graviton Hellbores instead is overkill, and prevents them from firing much in the next two rounds.

Even smaller ships would be effective against such defense. The damage potential would be even more wasted in that first round, because they die in just a few hits. So, those GHB ships do no more than APB armed ships would do.

So, GHBs are at best no better than APBs for this use, and could potentially be weaker.

[Captain Kwok]

I would like to use torpedoes in PBW, especially in my roleplay games, instead of the same old APBs and such - but you can't just compete if the galaxy turns hostile. They should have a longer range and a bit higher damage to be worthwhile.

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
so using Graviton Hellbores instead is overkill, and prevents them from firing much in the next two rounds.

The cooldown rate matters not when the graviton hellbore can kill a light cruiser in one shot. (Massive mounts)

[Taera]

TerranC, a massive shot or two can prolly gut not a LC but a battle-ship once the shields are down. And one or two massive SD's would do the job. Also GH's cooldown is only two, as much as torpedoes' is.

Fyron: lets not get into this again. its rock-paper-scissors and all works.

[Suicide Junkie]

The cooldown rate matters not when the graviton hellbore can kill a light cruiser in one shot. (Massive mounts)

Unless you're facing only a single LC with your Baseship(!), the reload rate is of critical importance.

[oleg]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:

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The cooldown rate matters not when the graviton hellbore can kill a light cruiser in one shot. (Massive mounts)

Unless you're facing only a single LC with your Baseship(!), the reload rate is of critical importance.

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Surely you can find spare 10 for Multiplex Tracking in Baseship !

[Phoenix-D]

"Even in the warp point range has meaning, though less than normally. I would suggest strong weapons with low range for use in warp point, like ripper beam."

Careful with this. If a large enough defending fleet and attacking fleet fight, you may find that some of the attackers are out of range when they warp in.

Ripper beams are powerful, but only if you can close the range.

Phoenix-D