Yea let's just ignore how useful bombers are for handling large groups of caps, you literally fly RHA into RM cap spam and then try to tell me bombers are useless when we both have seen their use.
I don't know where you manage to get it that I think scatters are OP as they are. They were OP, with their old stats. Also me pointing out Durandal can still use scatter guns in a 1v1 doesn't mean he's the only one that can, he's just about the only one that tries. Bombers are slower in turn rate but not in thrust. Meaning it can keep up with a fighter in a chase scenario easily. I think you're missing out the part where the range of scatters cannot be increased because they have proven to be too good when shooting at a running snub. A bomber has the ability to hurt a fighter because it still has things like maxims and energy cannons for hull and EMPs for shield, it also has hellfires which while not reliable if you get close enough they can do the job. The only problem with taking things that can damage a fighter would be lowering your abilities to damage capital ships. Cruisers while they do still have their insta capability with the LM, are much slower than bombers, meaning it has to get a pulse and LM in the space of a second, and the bomber has to get rather close too.
