Kusari destroyer scale + ship loadouts.

[Tenacity]

The size was made this way by vanilla developers, just like Bretonian Gunboat size or Rheinland BS size.

Yes, and we all know that in vanilla FL, players could fly capships, and capships had shields and 150k damage weapons with 4k range. Oh, and it's not like a vanilla fighter would ever stand a chance at destroying a capship on it's own...

Sarcasm aside, you have some really bass ackwards ways of trying to claim something is balanced when it is quite obviously not, Mjolnir.

PvP in this game is about agility and size. In any battle involving capships or mk 2 fighters/bombers/freighters, The ability to avoid damage is a thousand times more valuable than the ability to absorb it or dish it out.

The Kusari Destroyer is -the smallest- cruiser class ship in this mod, almost half the size of the next largest cruiser-class ship. It has more weaponry than any other light destroyer, and -all- of it's turrets can fire forward.

The thing is damn near invincible when faced with bombers or fighters, it's quite literally a gunboat with better guns, more hull strength, a stronger shield, and heavier power core.

People in this thread keep claiming "It was meant to fight the bretonian destroyer!" - no, it wasnt, the bretonia-kusari war was never taken into consideration when this game was being made. That's something -we- put in, without giving any thought to how the ships of each house square off against one another.
The only bomber available to the bretonian armed forces is incapable of dealing with the Kusari destroyer, even if it's flown by a crap pilot. The blood dragon cruiser doesnt stand a chance against the kusari destroyer either, and if the pilot is half decent he can still wipe the floor with a bretonian destroyer without so much as breaking a sweat.

As I said, reduce it to 6 turrets (the six forward firing hardpoints), or scale the thing up. Dont care which, just pick one. We dropped the bounty hunter gunship down to 4 effective turrets for the same reason - it's small and agile, the only reason the kdessie hasnt received the same treatment is because the developers and just about everyone that has a voice around here flies the damn thing.




Just for some comparisons:
-The Corvo cruiser is more than twice as wide as the kusari destroyer, and about 1.5 times longer, but only has 8 guns.
-The BHG Thresher destroyer is, like the corvo, wider and almost twice as long as the kusari destroyer, but only has 8 guns.
-The Resheph recon cruiser, which again has 8 turrets - fewer than the kusari destroyer - is taller and longer, with about twice the surface area for an opponent to hit.
-The Fearless destroyer, which has the same number of hardpoints as the kusari destroyer and has the same powercore, has roughly three times more surface area and is less manuverable.

So despite the fact that the kdessie is, in most cases, at least half as large as these ships, and more manuverable, it has more firepower? Does that make sense to anyone here?

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