AP-385 "Orca" Bounty Hunter Gunboat

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GBH3 "Orca" Bounty Hunters Guild Gunboat
Ship Class	Gunboat
Built by	Bounty Hunters Guild
Tech Column	Bounty Hunters - Ships
Technical information
Guns/Turrets	1 / 6
Opt. weapon class	5
Max. weapon class	5
Other equipment	1xCD 1xCM
Hull strength	108,000
Max. shield class	8
Cargo space	400 units
Nanobots/Batteries	350/350
Max. impulse speed	80 m/s
Max. turn speed	35.81 deg/s
Max. thrust speed	150 m/s
Max. cruise speed	350 m/s
Power output	500,000 u
Power recharge	50,000 u/s
Additional information
Ship price	$34,000,000
Package price	$39,264,750

The Orca is a recent development of the Bounty Hunters Guild. Replacing an outdated Gunship model, this gunboat was specially developed to act as an anti-fighter warship for operations that the Guild undertakes in remote and dangerous systems. Usually accompanied by several Hammerheads and Mantas, the Orca is a force to be reckoned with, feared even by the most experienced pilots of BHG's most hated enemies, the Outcasts and the Corsairs.

Handling

• This ship is too large to use docking bays, it must use mooring points.

Review without version number

Review This ship is well balanced and cost efficient, it offers a good powercore, strong hull and the much needed maneuverability. Equipped with a missile turret, razor and inferno (or perhaps a Cerberus turret) this ship has all the equipment it needs to do short work of rogue pirates. The Forward Turret shoots 5-10 degrees "below" the target in the standard ship or turret view. This is usually corrected by changing to first-person view. The ship's obvious flaw is that some turrets can't shoot under a specific angle backwards, thus diminishing the damage output. The other flaw is its shape and size, its fairly easy to hit, even with a stationary opponent using the turret view. Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Review by Balthazzar

Outdated Review (4.86)

Review (4.86) Oh dear. The first two words that come into my head when I look at this ship perfectly sum up it's performance against anything Snubcraft sized that is in a group of three, maybe even two people. When you first take a glance at this ship, you read it's awfully inaccurate description. When compared to the Bottlenose's description, this ship sounds absolutely godlike. You'll probably fall head over heels for the Orca, regardless of how it looks out of place it the AP manufacturing shipline. Sadly, when it comes to putting your money where your mouth is, the Orca fails. Hard. With six turrets and a forward gun, you wonder what could go wrong. Well firstly, the Forward gun is probably the worst forward gun in the whole mod, being dangerously close to being a bad-arc'd Battle Razor. Five of it's turrets fire forwards, which is decent but only three fire to the sides, which can be a serious problem if you're up against bombers(thankfully, the Bottlenose fills that niche). Six turrets fire from behind, which would be great, if you could fire from behind all the time that is. It's shape and agility don't do too much favors for it. You can fully dodge novas but if your opponent knows what he's doing, you're dead meat. Nicely aimed SNACs can easiliy penetrate your hull (Yet again, the Bottlenose fills this Niche, as SNACs will have a hard time hitting it). The only real attractive thing about this gunboat, is it's powercore. Otherwise, it's not so hot. If you want to dismiss everything I've said and go for this ship anyway, you might aswell go and ask for some Liberty Gunboat Turrets/Liberty Gunboat Defense Turret or Bretonia Gunboat Primary Turrets, since they can work a charm with this. Aswell as a Cerb + Missile loadout. I warn you though, if your opponents know what they're doing, the battle won't be pretty for you. In conclusion, the Orca is an ambitious ship, which fails to fill those ambitions. You'd be far better off sticking to a Bottlenose, as the Orca can die to most crimminal threats out there. If you can RP permission though, I highly advise you try and get a Liberty Gunboat or Bretonia Gunboat, which can be used at 90% core. It's ironic, because the descriptions says that the Outcasts and Corsairs fear this ship. In reality, it's just another gnat on the glass of their GBs and GSs. If ever met by either of them, they will toast you very easiliy. In the next update, I hope this sad ship will be corrected. Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Review by Lythrilux

Hardpoints

• 1 Gunboat Forward Gun (Class 7)
• 6 Gunboat Turrets

Purchase Includes

Spoiler:
1 Deep Scanner ($14,750) 1 Gunboat Molecular Shield ($3,000,000) 1 Orca Gunboat Forward Gun ($2,250,000)

Availability

Spoiler: Buying Locations
Base Owner System Location Capetown Station Bounty Hunters Guild Guard Omega-56 Border Worlds