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Carriers overpowered?

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Carriers overpowered?

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I found out that after you reach some critical mass of bombers in your fleet(20-30+)and some support you basically become unstoppable .Reason being that bombers cost nothing , fly very fast and 30 of them can kill any capital ship very fast. You attack basically as soon as you enter the well, while other ships have to travel to you first. Flak frigs or no flags it doesnt really matter -you take out caps in first minutes of a fight and you may lose some bombers which will regenerate anyway

I dont really see any other ship combination being nearly as powerfull as carrier fleet (missile frigs are nice in the beggining but thats about it).


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Reply #51 from Sins Forums Top
Lol it is funny that people bring up all carrier fleet as weak, yet I never said it is ALL carrier. I play vassari and here is what I use 2 Sova Carriers with repair cloud maxed out and LRM and subverters as support . Subverters disable ships pretty good - including flaks (they also good to prevent people running away).I rarely lose ships . With maxed out shield ignore tech bombers take out caps in 10 sec flat.
Reply #52 from Sins Forums Top
Everyone that thinks it isn't overpowered needs to actually try it, rush for 20-30 carriers then actually micro them, circle around the system and once his fleet gets close to you jump away. Even against someone who tries to counter the strat by massing flaks it just doesn't matter, you simply micro your fighters/bombers whilst kiting your carrier fleet. There's basically no risk factor in losing fighters because you can just replace them at no cost.

The two biggest imbalances I see are carrier units & heavy cruisers, early game mass carriers then switch to massing heavy cruisers and you have a fleet that counters everything and is only really countered by a mirror fleet, not to mention that heavy cruisers have a ridiculous amount of armour/hps/speed if kodiaks and do great damage vs everything. The only possible counters to them are dealt with by your carrier fleet of fighters.
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Reply #53 from Sins Forums Top
Bombers and fighters are free in the same way that ammo is free. Strike craft are weapon systems, and are the primary one for carriers.
Reply #54 from Sins Forums Top

Sorry, 8 caps = 24k, 30 carriers = ~35k. So... how is this unbalanced?

Um... 8 caps is about 35k with the fleet upgrades.

Flak is just as overpowered a bombers though so it evens out.

Last game my opponants spammed carriers and lrms (had about 30 carriers, 20 lrms) and I only lost a single level 4 cap. My two high level ones never died.
Disable fighters ability and 40 flaks FTW.