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Starlanced

Starlanced
Yes but nowhere near the speeds involved here. I couldn't imagine the forces on a pilot at 400m/s, that's what is unrealistic here.
 

Dillontheman

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Alright I secede my argument... I suppose it was based in the opinion of elegant space combat anyway lol. For that reason, I dare anyone to prioritize their strategy to ramming me.... You'll be left wondering where I disappeared to and why your hull integrity is fading :p

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Starlanced said:
Yes but nowhere near the speeds involved here. I couldn't imagine the forces on a pilot at 400m/s, that's what is unrealistic here.
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I also felt the physics dont really apply equivocally... but it seems its a tactic that many hold dear so no point arguing
 

Lord Vakko

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Schattenbogen said:
End of 19th century, when race between canon and armor was a bit complicated, ramming was (again) a valid tactic :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lissa_(1866)#Ramming_attacks

Many ships between 1880 and 1900 was equiped for ramming.

World War II, ramming was a valid naval and aerial tactic again.
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Tanks ramming
Ships ramming
But a row boat wouldn't ram a clipper
And a humvee wouldn't ram a tank (or another humvee for that matter)

The thing that makes vehicles light and nimble is BECAUSE they're not heavily armored.
They have humvee's that have 1 inch steel armor and those things drive like slugs. If they tried to ram an M1, they would crumble as if they didn't have armor.
 

who?

who?
chad77 said:
Yes but if a row boat rammed a destroyer,,,, the row boat didn't win,,,, ever,,, : )
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No, but lots of small, lightweight planes have rammed destroyers or even carriers and destroyed them. Though, it never ended well for the plane either..
 

chad77

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who? said:
No, but lots of small, lightweight planes have rammed destroyers or even carriers and destroyed them. Though, it never ended well for the plane either..
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Your comparing apples to oranges. If a small plane rams a large plane, most likely both will crash and burn but definitely the small plane will be worse off than the large plane.
 

who?

who?
chad77 said:
Your comparing apples to oranges. If a small plane rams a large plane, most likely both will crash and burn but definitely the small plane will be worse off than the large plane.
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Let's not introduce any more analogies/metaphors, my brain is starting to hurt! ;)

As I said - the plane wasn't likely to survive. So, small vehicles/vessels can destroy bigger ones by ramming in reality too, but the smaller vessel rarely survives either. I'm not sure if people are having a problem with the small vessels being able to destroy larger ones through ramming; or only when the small vessel does it and survives.

I mean, there must be some point where even a large vessel is sufficiently damaged so an impact from a smaller vessel could be enough to destroy the larger one but not the smaller. Not in a head-on collision, but perhaps if a reinforced part of the smaller vessel impacts the larger one on the hull between (i.e. not directly on) bulkheads, the larger vessel might be compromised and destroyed while the smaller might survive. Though it would be the exception rather than the rule.
 

Na'Qan

Na'Qan
im not sure if anyone noticed, but I fired 2 Torpedoes. The first was fired right after his shields went down, and my Explorer also sustained splash damage from it. The 2nd torpedo was the the killing blow.
 

goemon

goemon
yesterday i upgraded my trading python to multi-role, because i wanted to have a change from my beloved multirole a-graded asp...

i have to say, it's a very comfortable ship for everything, it's relaxing, but it's nerv-wrecking boring, i'd call it a "pilot-like-god-in-france"-ship, i guess nobody ever said god like to have adventures.

you sit in here, you don't have to care about interdictions at all, you can interdict every npc you see (some will outrun you...) ... you make constant profit which makes missioning rather uninteresting (beside smuggling battle weapons to outposts somethimes).

i'm a little bit stuck right now. i will give it a week, otherwise degrade it to trading again. maybe a7 istead of c7 thrusters will do some magic?

(it reminds me very much of flying an adder, without the fun of being the underdog and underestimated....)
 
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Commander Mick

Commander Mick
When the Python was first added to this game. (Elite Dangerous) and I kept finding that it's holographic display was missing the shipyard display from the few places I checked at around about that time.

So, I decided to make a reference to Monty Python's Flying Circus - Haywain sketch about two art critics in museum finding well known works of art with subjects missing from the composition. I thought that fact that I ad the very same painting (Just a copy!) behind me would add to relevance of my video as I panned the external camera around so that could be seen.

After watching the video, I decide it was a disaster and then promptly deleted it.

Not sure anybody would really get or the way I was saying so.

Speaking that comedy troupe references to them the early version of the game. I thought I read of a ship pilot named Monty who flew one of those. I also tried to find this in my delete video, but could never relocate the name reference. How embarrassing and another reason for the deletion.

So, could anybody help me out with that reference. I was sure I was right about being found in either the original game manual or novella?
 

goemon

goemon
Commander Mick said:
When the Python was first added to this game. (Elite Dangerous) and I kept finding that it's holographic display was missing the shipyard display from the few places I checked at around about that time.

So, I decided to make a reference to Monty Python's Flying Circus - Haywain sketch about two art critics in museum finding well known works of art with subjects missing from the composition. I thought that fact that I ad the very same painting (Just a copy!) behind me would add to relevance of my video as I panned the external camera around so that could be seen.

After watching the video, I decide it was a disaster and then promptly deleted it.

Not sure anybody would really get or the way I was saying so.

Speaking that comedy troupe references to them the early version of the game. I thought I read of a ship pilot named Monty who flew one of those. I also tried to find this in my delete video, but could never relocate the name reference. How embarrassing and another reason for the deletion.

So, could anybody help me out with that reference. I was sure I was right about being found in either the original game manual or novella?
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as a matter of fact all multirole-ships do reference to monty python's flying circus. and now for something completely different.
 
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