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9 years ago
Dec 31, 2015, 9:41:33 AM
Hi,



I remember that in early state of Disharmony bomber (and obviously fighters) looked cool, sounded fine, but did little.



Are they useful now?
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Jan 3, 2016, 8:11:21 PM
Players and AI almost never have defenses against Bombers, so they have the advantage of usually not fighting any defenses, and they also target differently, so if an enemy has a fleet of glass cannons and tanks, they take down the glass cannons more often than the tanky ships, so they do have many advantages, especially on bigger ships where their relative weight is smaller while their amount is still imited by special slots you'd wanna exploit anyway.
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Jan 3, 2016, 8:23:35 PM
It should be kept in mind that bombers and fighters recover from their losses slowly unless there is a repair module.



I've also found the strategy of employing amoeba ships with only fighter / bomber modules and no other weapons (which makes them cost less smiley: dust, as hangars are not considered weapon modules) to be quite effective and fun.
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Jan 4, 2016, 9:22:47 AM
Thank you for replying.

So to summarize: in the early\mid game I should not try to complement my forces with bombers\create specialized carrier ships.



Late game just as a space fill, right?
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Jan 4, 2016, 2:49:58 PM
If you're Hissho, early game frigates / cruisers require less space to field fighter or bomber modules, so they could be employed early game while still having some space left for weapon / defence modules. If you do that however, be sure to exploit the enemy's lack of anti-fighter defences swiftly before they create new models and retrofit.
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Feb 7, 2016, 4:13:27 PM
I just got to the last bombers research. They are silmply broken.

I created dreadnoughts with only defenses and no weapons. Just two bombers.

They deal 320 damage x 15 shots twice the phase each bypassing the target defences.

They are the most efficient mean to destroy entire enemy fleet in one encounter.

Combine it with Sheredyn and noone will escape.

That is why I stopped using them.
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