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Compared to everything else I've seen on the NGAD this engine is actually slow.

When it's the Air Force, I think Chuck Yeager or Jimmy Stewart.

CIG introduced the concept a year ago as almost ready for us. It got brought up at this years Citizen Con as almost ready for us, and put it into an "experimental mode" in Arena Commander. "Master modes" is the latest effort to force slower and closer combat. Essentially, yes, in combat you...

You won't see anything special on the Liberator before release, where it will get a price bump.

The P-38 mission The Germans called the P-38 the Twin Tailed Devil. Jimmy Doolittle called the P-38 "the sweetest flying plane in the sky." The main problem with the P-38 was it was a complex aircraft especially for rookie pilots with only 25 hours in type. The P-38 served in Europe from the US...

Operation Vengence was in April of 1943. Round trip was 1100 miles, plus combat in the middle and the mission was flown at low level, which isn't the most fuel efficeint way to fly. At the time the P-38, was the only aircraft with the range to do the job. It isn't that you can't fly stealth...

Considering the Sweinfurt-Regensberg mission, where 60 B-17 were lost, due to a combination of Fighters and Flak. In that mission 38 Luftwaffe fighters were lost, according to German records, with 21 more damaged. That tends to question the claim that bomber guns and gunners were ineffective...

What CR wants is Hollywood Space Opera in a game. World War II, only in an extreme Hollywood interpretation. The whole close range, long lasting, 1 v 1 dogfights was never a thing in World War 2. Your target usually went down in a single burst of machinegun fire. In fact the Thach Weave...

I never consider anything without a Quantum Drive, other than a Bike, worth anything. So, I agree, the Fury isn't right for the job. The bigger the missile the longer the minimum range. The only missile size (at least before my current time playing, I haven't checked in a couple of years) that...

If you only need a couple of Arrester IIIs the ship makes no difference for VLRT and LRT. You can't launch more than 4 missiles at a time, regardless of how many tubes you have.

I have enough issues just getting minor damage repaired on the pad.

If they don't detect you, they don't move their ship, they just sit there until they detect you. Normally you have to close into detection range, but with the Eclipse and the range of the size 9's that doesn't have to be the case, though you have to launch at under 10KM or the torps fail 100% of...

Now, even with the slower speed of torps, which is way low, the torp crosses the engagement range of a Hammerhead, if it flies right over the Hammerhead, is what, 2 seconds?

No reason to limit radar range.

This is why I really hated the great rebalance (3.17?) to bring combat closer. Limiting Rhinos to 1500 meter range makes them useless for a fleet escort. The Hammerhead can barely defend itself, with that short range and has to be, effectively, docked to a ship it wants to defend.

Regardless of what guns you put on the Shrike they are still 2 pea shooters. :) Like the Eclipse, the Shrike isn't really meant to use the guns. Use Tarantulas, you might get lucky and hit someting important and you have 60 seconds of ammo. For doing PVE bounties, to quickly go up the ladder...

Are you talking about the Talon or the Shrike? The Shrike carries 24 Size 3 Missiles in bespoke mounts but the pea shooters on the Shrike are unlikely to be able to deal with the armor on the Ares. The base Talon mounts a pair of size 3 ordinance points, so can carry a single size 3 weapon or a...

The Harby doesn't have as many missiles. the 8 Size 2 are bespoke launchers, plus a pair of size four mounts and a size 5 bespoke mount. The bespoke launchers on the Ares are size 3 carrying 12 missiles, plus the two size 5 mounts. And the Ares flys better than the MIS.

The Jav has 2 turrets with 4 size 9 guns each and a stupid number of size 7 guns (IIRC 3 dual turrets per side and a dual turret forward). Based on observations from Xenothreat, it appears that the size 9 laser turrets fire faster than the rail gun. Presuming good crews, unless you catch the...

From the ships you listed, yes. The Ares (and the Eclipse for that matter) is the correct ship to use when your target is bigger than a Retaliator and you rather fly with a wingman than a crew.