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Calico Jack:
--- Quote from: N-Sunderland on July 24, 2013, 10:19:40 am ---Out of curiosity, Calico Jack, why did you bring a pipe wrench on a Goldfish? With 400 armour, the mallet is more efficient on that ship.
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It's a theory I'm testing for countering gatling attacks on hulls - the mallet repairs more but takes 9 seconds to cool down, by which time the hull may be going down - I've seen captains recommending spanners in that situation but they don't seem to work for me. I'm still undecided if it's better or not.
N-Sunderland:
--- Quote from: Calico Jack on July 24, 2013, 12:17:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: N-Sunderland on July 24, 2013, 10:19:40 am ---Out of curiosity, Calico Jack, why did you bring a pipe wrench on a Goldfish? With 400 armour, the mallet is more efficient on that ship.
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It's a theory I'm testing for countering gatling attacks on hulls - the mallet repairs more but takes 9 seconds to cool down, by which time the hull may be going down - I've seen captains recommending spanners in that situation but they don't seem to work for me. I'm still undecided if it's better or not.
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Interesting. I'll check that one out.
Calico Jack:
--- Quote from: ramjamslam on July 24, 2013, 10:06:45 am ---Excellent work Jack! I was spectating and took a series of screenshots from a couple of the matches featuring the veteran captains: Calico Jack, Captain Lockheart, Captain Pheonix, Captain Coldcurse & Psycho Dude. Images are here: http://imgur.com/a/eaCPP
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Thanks RamJam - can I add them to the steam thread on this?
It was the first time I'd tried this with party chat and "Join Crew" so there were some teething problems, but on the whole I felt it was a good session, names to watch out for: Sissel and GameDude
naufrago:
--- Quote from: Calico Jack on July 24, 2013, 12:17:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: N-Sunderland on July 24, 2013, 10:19:40 am ---Out of curiosity, Calico Jack, why did you bring a pipe wrench on a Goldfish? With 400 armour, the mallet is more efficient on that ship.
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It's a theory I'm testing for countering gatling attacks on hulls - the mallet repairs more but takes 9 seconds to cool down, by which time the hull may be going down - I've seen captains recommending spanners in that situation but they don't seem to work for me. I'm still undecided if it's better or not.
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The thing is, 5 secs is too long to wait for repairs when youre under fire. A heavy clip'd gatling can take down a goldfish's armor in under 5 secs, even if it's buffed (assuming no repairs, or repairs are on cd). To survive 1 full heavy clip'd gat magazine in a goldfish, you need buffed armor and a mallet hit (and 1 or 2 spanner hits), or pray that the enemy gunner misses/gets disabled/hits the front gun for about .5 secs. Also pray that nothing else is helping to chip away at your armor, because you'll be in a world of hurt.
Some math- a heavy clip'd gat will deal 765 damage per magazine to armor. Goldfish has 400 armor, 520 when buffed. 520 armor + 250 armor (from mallet hit) = 770 armor. An unbuffed goldfish should have its armor taken out with just 1 magazine of gat fire, but a buffed goldfish will just barely live through it if you get a mallet hit in (and 2 spanner hits before that mallet hit will optimize armor uptime).
This is all assuming that the enemy is ONLY firing 1 gat with heavy clip at you. Even assuming the enemy misses a fair bit, mallet/spanner is best for repairs. You can't beat the low cd of the spanner and the efficiency and repair strength of the mallet.
ramjamslam:
--- Quote from: Calico Jack on July 24, 2013, 12:25:34 pm ---
Thanks RamJam - can I add them to the steam thread on this?
It was the first time I'd tried this with party chat and "Join Crew" so there were some teething problems, but on the whole I felt it was a good session, names to watch out for: Sissel and GameDude
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Sure, do whatever you like with them Jack :)
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