Kusari destroyer scale + ship loadouts.

[mjolnir]

Hey, Mjolnir! So you think the dessie is balanced? Well, how about placing it next to a Bretonian Gunboat and see what happens...

"Kusari dessie is small that's why it's unbalanced" over and over again. "Sabre is uber cause it has 7 guns" or "Sabre is uber cause it has less mass than any other VHF", will be one of my answers to that from now on, or maybe I'll even combine it.;)

yes the destroyer is smaller than Bretonian GB, yes it has been that way since vanilla, yes it defeats the Bretonian GB just like any other gb.

yes it's rather easy to kill with a Bretonian Destroyer or even a pair of VHFs for that matter.

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There are more than two sides to this debate.

Why not go outside the norms?

1) Make the ship bigger.
2) Move the two lowest forward turrets onto the sides of the ship - at the center of the large round object at towards the rear.

These guns can still fire forward, but could also rotate around to shoot back as well.

Trade off some size for some extra fire coverage for the rear...

Wouldn't need to move any turrets, just turn on the 4 vanilla hardpoints it doesn't use now - 2 on top of main area just behind the bridge, 1 on bottom of the engine, 1 below.

Issues with this approach:

a) resizing vanilla ship - resizing vanilla ship for no reason (balance can be adjusted with turning/armor/guns/power/sheilds etc)

b) would change a ship with very different character into ship very similar to others, so less variety
- variety is nice, that's why we have Superheavy bombers, tiny battleships like the Osiris, cruisers with thin profile (BHG Dessie, OC dessie, Kusari Dessie) etc etc.

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