Hello CMDR's I'm looking for those who have flown the Federal Gunship and the Fer De Lance would like to hear your reviews on it. On paper it looks like a terrible ship granted it is supposed to be oriented to the support role in combat but even for that I find it hard to imagine any support it could offer due to it's poor speed and maneuverability yes it has a lot of armor but so does the Assault Ship and while it has more weapon hard points the Assault Ship has 2 Large and 2 Mediums the Assault ship has a good deal more speed as well.
It just seems to me that the Federal Gunship got the short end of the stick where in it's capacity to be a tank in the world of Elite Dangerous it seems like a tank from World War I compared to the Modern tanks we have today.
Let's talk about the Fer-De-Lance
It has four medium hardpoints just like the Gunship and 1 HUGE hardpoint, it's faster, more maneuverable just slightly less armor which it makes up for with better shields, same number of internal compartments, same reactor bay, about the same FSD jump.
Speaking about the shields, the largest shields you could have on a gunship would be a class 6 but it seems like a class to small the imperial clipper which has less hall mass than it is capable of sporting a class 7 shield generator, and so this handicaps the gunship in that it will never be able to achieve optimum strength from it's shields while the Fer-De-Lance on the other hand with a class 5 shield generator is capable of having not only stronger shields but it fits near it's optimum range. So the big question is, what would make the Federal Gunship worth buying? Will it be allotted to the ship that NO ONE uses? As presumably every ship in the game has seen more action than it has. And could the Gunship even compare itself to the Fer-De-Lance or would the Assault Ship stand a better chance?
It just seems to me that the Federal Gunship got the short end of the stick where in it's capacity to be a tank in the world of Elite Dangerous it seems like a tank from World War I compared to the Modern tanks we have today.
Let's talk about the Fer-De-Lance
It has four medium hardpoints just like the Gunship and 1 HUGE hardpoint, it's faster, more maneuverable just slightly less armor which it makes up for with better shields, same number of internal compartments, same reactor bay, about the same FSD jump.
Speaking about the shields, the largest shields you could have on a gunship would be a class 6 but it seems like a class to small the imperial clipper which has less hall mass than it is capable of sporting a class 7 shield generator, and so this handicaps the gunship in that it will never be able to achieve optimum strength from it's shields while the Fer-De-Lance on the other hand with a class 5 shield generator is capable of having not only stronger shields but it fits near it's optimum range. So the big question is, what would make the Federal Gunship worth buying? Will it be allotted to the ship that NO ONE uses? As presumably every ship in the game has seen more action than it has. And could the Gunship even compare itself to the Fer-De-Lance or would the Assault Ship stand a better chance?
Comparing it to the FDL is fruitless, they are very different. In a 1v1 the FDL wins every time. I use my FGS in multi-role with focus on base attacks. My record is doing 4 base attacks in 12 minutes. Dont forget the FGS also will get a docking bay with 2.2! My FDL is used for assassinations: just go ape with rails and everything dies in seconds.![[DOOK] Droogie](https://forums-cdn.zaonce.net/data/avatars/m/124/124078.jpg?1553527149){kind=avatar}
