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Offline IvKir

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Re: No... I promise you, that is not how that works
« Reply #15 on: July 23, 2014, 11:33:21 pm »
Ah... so, because all flakfish was mention, so i'll pass it.

Now... meet lvl 4 pilot with double javelin up front and moonshine\bumpers\spyglass (what with this tool anyway?)

So he was talking and talking, about how his ship manage to ram into pieces an galleon with this build someday... just to be ram-killed by squid in game and leaving it right next after his unfortunate death.

Offline Richard LeMoon

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Re: No... I promise you, that is not how that works
« Reply #16 on: July 24, 2014, 05:50:24 pm »
Mobulas are the tank of the game.

Offline PixelatedVolume

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Re: No... I promise you, that is not how that works
« Reply #17 on: August 26, 2014, 08:38:24 pm »
I flew on a pyramid with double front Gatling, double side mortar.  Could've worked in theory but against a hardcore flame squid?  Not a chance.

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Re: No... I promise you, that is not how that works
« Reply #18 on: August 27, 2014, 09:15:01 am »
I flew on a pyramid with double front Gatling, double side mortar.  Could've worked in theory but against a hardcore flame squid?  Not a chance.
Stranger things have been tried.

Offline Richard LeMoon

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Re: No... I promise you, that is not how that works
« Reply #19 on: August 27, 2014, 12:27:34 pm »
"Why would I change? This ship always wins." pilot of a flamer/flak front Pyra.... who ragequit halfway through the resulting match.

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Re: No... I promise you, that is not how that works
« Reply #20 on: August 27, 2014, 01:46:14 pm »
"Why would I change? This ship always wins." pilot of a flamer/flak front Pyra.... who ragequit halfway through the resulting match.
"I know what I'm doing!!" - every low lvl pilot who ragequits mid-match

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Re: No... I promise you, that is not how that works
« Reply #21 on: August 27, 2014, 02:02:39 pm »
I flew on a pyramid with double front Gatling, double side mortar.  Could've worked in theory but against a hardcore flame squid?  Not a chance.
Double gat is a reasonable threat to a squid especially if you can chew off an engine or two. The mortars are just a wasted opportunity unless the enemy's engineers are asleep.

Offline Hoja Lateralus

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Re: No... I promise you, that is not how that works
« Reply #22 on: August 27, 2014, 03:12:56 pm »
Double gatling pyra with some moonshine (and maybe impact bumpers?) and good ramming can be pretty fine choice sometimes.

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Re: No... I promise you, that is not how that works
« Reply #23 on: August 27, 2014, 03:45:55 pm »
I flew on a pyramid with double front Gatling, double side mortar.  Could've worked in theory but against a hardcore flame squid?  Not a chance.
Double gat is a reasonable threat to a squid especially if you can chew off an engine or two. The mortars are just a wasted opportunity unless the enemy's engineers are asleep.

I completely disagree. Double gat is an absurd choice to fight a ship with next to no armour and tonnes of permahull. It's not hard to time mortars to land on the hull, especially since the armour will be going down every 2 seconds.

Offline pandatopia

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Re: No... I promise you, that is not how that works
« Reply #24 on: August 27, 2014, 04:28:47 pm »
VS squid is actually one of the (few) times where you want the mortar shooting constantly, even while the gat is still shooting and the armor is up - it can bring armor down by itself and further if you wait for the hull to down many times you will get fewer mortar hits in.

Offline PixelatedVolume

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Re: No... I promise you, that is not how that works
« Reply #25 on: August 27, 2014, 04:56:20 pm »
There was no ramming, and our engineers didn't understand the concept of proper stations.
 

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Re: No... I promise you, that is not how that works
« Reply #26 on: August 27, 2014, 04:58:52 pm »
Two words....

lochnagar flares  >_<

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Re: No... I promise you, that is not how that works
« Reply #27 on: August 27, 2014, 04:59:47 pm »
If you can hit it

Offline Alistair MacBain

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Re: No... I promise you, that is not how that works
« Reply #28 on: August 27, 2014, 05:02:01 pm »
Its still wasted.

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Re: No... I promise you, that is not how that works
« Reply #29 on: August 27, 2014, 05:14:19 pm »
Flares do 10 direct and 5 AoE damage, I think.  Lochnagar adds a negligible amount of damage to those tiny numbers.

10 fire stacks are still 10 fire stacks.

All you're accomplishing is giving yourself 1 less shot and having to rebuid your gun in between.  -_-