Gunboat FWD Gun

[dead_shot]

Either give the GS cargo capable of mounting at least CAU VI or change forward gun slot to class 8. At the moment GBs are useless against bombers and/or capital ships, all they can fight with are other GBs. And that is weak big time!

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[Robert.Fitzgerald]

Hyperbole does not really fit in a balance discussion. Hunter Gunships can already mount cap 4 (which is sufficient to survive one supernova round) and can fight off a few bombers or fighters. So can every other gunboat.

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[Cellulanus]

Forward guns are pure EPICNESS! If the Bretonian gunboat had dual fwd guns like it did in vanilla that ship would be absolutely awesome.


Do not touch the forward guns.


EDIT: Actually, if you do touch them let them fire off axis like fighter guns and every turret in game, that would turn GBs with forward guns into gunboat killers.

[jimmy Patterson]

there farly well balanced but on a side note the libbygb handles like a brick and dosent have the armor to stand up toi its slow speed it seems like it got sluggish in .85

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[tansytansey]

I have heard many complaints who operate these gunships about the limited fwd gun, with its limit turn range and cannot replace it with a class 8 turret. Yes, the fwd gun has a tremendous amount of power and effective when it can be applied. That is the issue, when it can be applied. The arc is fwd and up (limited) with a side to side arc (limited) so you opponent has to be almost perfectly in front of you.

The problem is, the turning arc is determined by a hardpoint, not a gun. Even if you equipped a class 8 turret to your forward gun hardpoint, it would still only turn the 15 or so degrees it usually does. The game isn't able to change the values of these turning arcs dynamically, because they are stored in the CMP file along with the ship model.

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[reavengitair]

The only thing I find wrong with gunboat forward guns, is that the Kusari models are rather small and puny looking.

[El Nino]

Actually this is a great Idea.. why would you be forced to carry that bulky gun that instakills some fighters, If you choose to you should be able to get just a regular turret... (in some very special cases you might actually really want to do that)

I'll make a suggestion to the dev circle...

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[reavengitair]

Well if people like the idea, then go ahead.

However, be aware... would you put a normal gun on a forward gun mount?

Anyway, now it would be weird. why?

The forward gun is a gun.

Which means no turrets...

and if we make the forward gun a turret, then you could equip 8 of them on a corsair gunboat :S

Not that you would do that, of course.

[El Nino]

Nah we just make it so that you can mount a turret on your forward gun slot... Nothing drastic... it can easily be done... you still would be unable to mount forward guns on your other slots...

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[reavengitair]

Just out of plain curiousity, How could you do that? Can you make a slot capeable of firing both guns and turrets? Would you convert the gunboat forward gun into a class 9 turret?

Sorry, it confuses me alot :S