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Gameplay / pyramidions, pyramidions everywhere

« on: May 18, 2013, 11:04:20 am »

I'm not certain why, maybe it's simply a comfortable or easy style of play, but the pyramidion is everywhere. Yesterday, a crew and myself went about five battles where the other side changed captains every time and every time they were both pyramidions. On top of this, all but two of them had the gat-flack layout.

Perhaps it's a balance issue? I've only played a few weeks but there has been a consistent lean towards pyramidions in just about every round, minus a few where the winners were galleons with four hwachas. It got to the point I simply adopted using the pyramidion and overnight began winning relatively reliably.

TL;DR: how does one cull the pyramidion population

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Gameplay / Scylla mortar vs Flak

« on: May 15, 2013, 11:29:04 pm »

playing around, for a good while I was using the Artemis and a chaingun for a pyra. this pattern functioned extremely well and won 2v1 engagements for us time and again until I came up against two galleons armed with nothing but hwacha and chainguns and was blown apart time and again thanks to some impressive coordination on their part.

aside from that, I'm doing a refit to improve overall performance. from what I've seen the flavor for pyramidions at the moment seems to be chaingun-flack on the front then whatever you please on the side, this would be fine of course aside from I found some posts suggesting that the Scylla mortar was far better.

simply looking for opinions on a mortar-chaingun pairing vs a flak-chaingun pairing, also would greatly appreciate advice on how to counter the horror that is the hwacha in almost every situation. goofy as it seems I can almost swear every time I've lost my ship it was due to enemy hwachas

close range? gear blown apart by a hwacha
long range? getting peppered by a hwacha
mid range? you bet that's a hwacha bearing down on you
something from behind? engines are gone, by the way it was a hwacha