There ain't such thing, because, every cruiser has it's own advantages and weak spots. So, skills and tactics decide your victory, but not a ship, in general way.
(11-19-2012, 01:22 PM)EisenSeele Wrote: GEB. That battle cruiser has crap turning, crap arcs, crap speed, and is basically a heavy battleship with front only heavy cruiser weapons.
Not a cruiser, it's a light carrier. I don't know if it still does, but in .85 it had a BS shield, 24 guns, and a thruster (which I thought made it way OP, but people disagree)
A battleCRUISER is a type of cruiser. If the GEB was ever op, that was very long ago in a time when men lived with unicorns, trains always ran on time, and everyone lived in harmony whilst listening to awesome Justin Bieber music.
As of right now, it's just a very special ship. I use the word special in the worst possible sense.
It cannot combat any shipclass on it's own effectively. Against larger targets, its arcs are too narrow and turn rate too low to kite. Against smaller targets, the coverage is too small and its profile is too easy to hit to defend itself. Even counting the hangar bays, no amount of bombers could rescue a geb from a battleship- and no economical amount of snubs could save a geb from either a snub swarm or a lone cruiser.
The Geb had one virtue back in 4.85: It was a very effective missile platform. Then cruiser missiles got their range shortened, and battleship missiles their range extended.
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(11-19-2012, 02:49 PM)AeternusDoleo Wrote: The Geb had one virtue back in 4.85: It was a very effective missile platform. Then cruiser missiles got their range shortened, and battleship missiles their range extended.
That is true, though the bullhead could always do better given the higher thrust speed. Given the heavily... gimped... arcs of the non flak heavy turrets, the geb cannot do much other than serving as a barely adequate long range bombardment.