Cobra Mk V and more...
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Do you use all 40 of those ships on your FC? If not 'mothball' a few into a shipyard at a nice system somewhere to collect dust
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Definitely, the "V" is more aerodynamic. Oh, wait...
Hear, hear!
It depends on directions hahaha
100% agree! What an awesome little ship!
The Vulture's shields aren't that good though...are they?
My Couriers shields are generally alot better.
The main problem of the Vulture is it's powerplant. Mine is running the CG reward G6 overcharged. With that I can run a prismatic and get 1500 MJ shields.
My "best" builds get just about similar shield strengths, but that leaves the iCourier still with a ricepaper hull while the Vulture could ram through a Coriolis station. And that's without considering the armaments. The courier is still a bit faster, though, and definitely gets a better jump range. I tried a rail Courier once, but for one thing, rails aren't my kind of weapons (polite expression for "I can't hit a barn from the inside with them") and their power requirements were too much for the rest of my loadout.
Vulture
iCourier
Let's not forget Vulture and Courier are small ships. Even the Mandalay is a step up in combat capability.
These are my builds - mostly for PvP;
iCourier (500HP of hull - 1439MJ of shields)
Vulture (3007HP of hull - 379MJ of shields)
I suppose it's a power thing with the Vulture, it's armoured powerplant and undersized fast-charging shields just make the most sense to me...
The Courier relies on it's very good speed...but when those shields get low, it's time to run!
Don't forget the good ol' Sidewinder - that also has a maneuverability rating of 5!
Sidewinder (I also have a PvP one of them
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I beat you to it.
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Sidewinder (I also have a PvP one of them
1. Eagle
2. Vulture
3. Sidewinder
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5. Mandalay
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21. iCourier
Agreed.
In PVE, an engineered courier can just about stay out of firing arc of Corvettes, Anacondas and FDLs, and can hold the tail of Pythons. It still takes ages to wear down the shields & hull, even with complimentary engineering such as Cytoscramblers paired with Corrosive Multicannon. But when your enemy brings any turrets then you can expect your shields to drop before you can take them out.
I'd love to have something that could be the same counter in PVP, with many small hardpoints giving access to a variety of weaponry and game play. A small mine launcher with Reverb cascade to do bombing runs against 10MJ cutters, a small missile with Grom bombs to stop them from escaping, Scramble Spectrum laser to trigger a power plant malfunction, and still enough conventional weaponry to do more than tickle them.
Counter-intuitively when you engineer small fast ships the problem is often the number of internals not the size of them. If you slap in a Heavy, Deep Class 3 Hull Reinforcement you lose all your speed, but 3x Class 1s are lighter and better. So what about 10 slots, all class 1 or 2? That would also help some non-combat builds I've tried in the past where you can't add a Class 3 multi limpet lead weight, and don't have the slots for multiple hack, recon, collect etc limpets. The same argument can be made for only having 4 utility slots.
At this point you end up with something that has the capabilities of the bigger ships but is still constrained by size and weight, and I would still expect that the best builds would still have the compromises between speed or running some slots empty.
You can mine bomb ships in PVP. Have dropped 'ion disruption and reverb cascade' on several, waiting to gank new players at Deciat.
Don't forget to give them a few blast of flechettes while their engines are choking. Retire, hang out in low orbit, at 0 throttle and AOA, below the OC line. You are invisible there. Return, rinse and repeat, as much as you desire.
Don't forget to give them a few blast of flechettes while their engines are choking. Retire, hang out in low orbit, at 0 throttle and AOA, below the OC line. You are invisible there. Return, rinse and repeat, as much as you desire.