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1.3 Release General Discussion
N-Sunderland:
--- Quote from: Captain Smollett on July 09, 2013, 07:38:36 pm ---Greased is 28% more powerful than heavy. You need to hit 72% of the shots heavy clip hits.
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78%, actually. Greased has 128% of heavy's power, which doesn't translate into heavy being 72% of greased's power :P
N-Sunderland:
I'm thinking of dropping the flak and using the mortar instead.
And who said the mortar had short range?
(yes, I know that this would be essentially impossible against a moving target)
Pickle:
The mortar is very under-rated.. I dropped the light flak for the mortar on Junker builds well before 1.3 (probably copying Captain Phoenix, but he seems to have abandoned that Junker build). It just needs a bit more skill/understanding from the crew firing it to watch the arc of shot. Plus, you've a long delay before seeing whether your shot hits or not. Fire a clip with greased and your last shell can have left the gun before the first shell has hit/missed the target.
I don't understand why people use lesmok with the light mortar, it doesn't seem justified for the range argument (other than making it shoot marginally more like the flak by flattening the trajectory).
N-Sunderland:
You know, if you had somebody put enough hours into learning the mortar's range and drop, merc-mortar could be an extremely deadly combo.
And I have to disagree with the sentiment that the mortar was better than the flak in 1.2. Before the reload the flak does more DPS and can destroy all but two ships in four shots (with a buff). So in 1.2 it was really better to have a flak, since it could kill everything but the Goldfish and the Galleon quicker than the mortar (and considering the Goldfish's hull rebuild, it was probably better against that too). But now with the reduced clip size of the flak with heavy clip, combined with the mortar's new AoE and turning speed, I think it gets the edge.
Letus:
--- Quote from: N-Sunderland on July 10, 2013, 01:49:40 pm ---I'm thinking of dropping the flak and using the mortar instead.
And who said the mortar had short range?
(yes, I know that this would be essentially impossible against a moving target)
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Can still out distance a flak/gat
--- Quote from: N-Sunderland on July 10, 2013, 02:12:14 pm ---You know, if you had somebody put enough hours into learning the mortar's range and drop, merc-mortar could be an extremely deadly combo.
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I'd do it.
just need the computer back....but I've been wanting to test merc mortar for some time now.
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