Newcomer / Intro Gimballed & Fixed Mounts

Konspiratsia · Feb 15, 2015

I'm not sure if its best to have the lasers gimballed or the multicannons I only want one pair gimballed

willowfan · Feb 15, 2015

Konspiratsia said:
I'm not sure if its best to have the lasers gimballed or the multicannons I only want one pair gimballed

If you only want one pair gimballed make it the multi-cannons.

Konspiratsia · Feb 16, 2015

willowfan said:
If you only want one pair gimballed make it the multi-cannons.

ta willowfan

rockelino · Feb 16, 2015

It may sound very unusual, but I like my Cobra with 1x Class-2 gimbaled BEAM LASER (to decimate shields), 1x Class-2 gimbaled MULTI CANNON, and 2x Class-1 gimbaled MULTI CANNONs. I am able to fire all at the same time (once the bandit's shields are down) and the combination of 3 cannons and 1 class-2 beam destroy my opponents extremely fast. Works for me.

Maynard46 · Feb 16, 2015

how come nobody uses turrets?

rich_hard1 · Feb 16, 2015

I have A class everything, run just two gImballed weapons that kill most enemy's in around 4 seconds. Worst damage I took was 4% shields from an anaconda.

Rutg3rO · Feb 16, 2015

rich_hard1 said:
I have A class everything, run just two gImballed weapons that kill most enemy's in around 4 seconds. Worst damage I took was 4% shields from an anaconda.

How on earth do you get A-class gimballed weapons? Sounds like a hack or a cheat.

Derpster Frey · Feb 17, 2015

Maynard46 said:
how come nobody uses turrets?

They have 67% less damage than fixed, on average.
Turrets are for big ships, with no agility.

willowfan · Feb 17, 2015

It's also very easy to accidentally set turrets to 'fire at will'...

Hilarity ensues

GeneralIdea1964 · Feb 17, 2015

rockelino said:
It may sound very unusual, but I like my Cobra with 1x Class-2 gimbaled BEAM LASER (to decimate shields), 1x Class-2 gimbaled MULTI CANNON, and 2x Class-1 gimbaled MULTI CANNONs. I am able to fire all at the same time (once the bandit's shields are down) and the combination of 3 cannons and 1 class-2 beam destroy my opponents extremely fast. Works for me.

Good thinking!, I have the twin lasers and twin cannon ( slow repeat, but do a fair bit of damage to smaller ships ). but the triple multi cannon sounds a wise choice. I might try that myself.

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Johnny Cyclops said:
I'm a lazy combat pilot, and never found anything better than a pair of class 2 gimbal pulse laser on the Cobra, and I leave the other C1 slots empty. I find the gimbal burst and beam lasers 'wander' off target too much. Fixed weapons just too hard to keep locked on the other ship. With an A grade power distributor and 4 pips to weapons I can press and fire for 27 seconds continuously (this was before the 1.1 heat management changes to laser weapons, and I've reconfig'd the Cobra to explore for now).

Higher class gimballed weapons 'wander' a lot less. I'm on a grade D beam laser pair, but they cost half a million cr each.