Cruiser Battle Razors

[mjolnir]

BattleRazors were used to instakill snubs that are sitting on your tail. That was their only use, and that was the only thing why cruisers (those, who knew what they were doing) were mounting them. If your intention was to remove that capability, then you de-facto removed the purpose of battle razors. I don't want to judge if it's wise or not to remove that aspect of the game, you probably see the bigger picture then me, but this is how it is, currently.

There's no use for battle razors rather then instakilling snub targets. For everything else, basics/solaris/cerberus/mortars/missiles are simply better, especially with turretsteering (including vs. gunboats). Better in terms of actual effeciency and the price you pay for mounting those on heavy slots (i.e., acquired capabilities vs lost capabilities)

The problem was that cruisers would mount razors for instakilling snubs... while mounting enough weapons (LM/pulses/primaries) for fighting the other targets (GBs and BS) at the same time, so they only lost their anti-cruiser capability (where more primaries were better). This was especially problematic with those light cruisers as mentioned.

People will not mount just 1 battle razor to "deal damage" to a bomber and "make him run". As Aeqvinox pointed out, now LM is being used for that purpose, although at less effeciency.

Ideally 2 razors + LM(s) or missile(s) or cerb(s) should make reasonably good (but not too good) allround loadout on cruisers with many heavy hardpoints.



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It's a bit offtopic here, but while we're at it
So Valor's problems with Glaive (mentioned in the appropriate thread), as well as requirement to mount 3 flaks instead of 2 like on turtle/KuBS for 360 coverage (I can't say for Zoner Juggie and Liberty Carrier) and resulting weakest AA capabilities, compared to those, is not a result of counter-balancing it's anti-cap capabilities, but merely a result of it's model/hardpoint location? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Didn't actually read about that afaik....anyway

It's more the other way around. Because of how many hardpoints it had and where they were positioned, the anti-cap capabilities were boosted.

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