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« on: February 17, 2018, 08:17:07 AM »
Yes TLs can eat onslaught armor from the front too, and if the poor guy kept that shield up their not shooting back. Most low tech ships have crazily inefficient shields to the point that I want to use shield bypass, however if a non shield ship meets just 1 ship with even good armor stripping they lose, while most shielded ships can handle a ship designed to kill them (by careful use of when to have the generator on or off, which I occasionally see the AI do). I got in a bought with the hegemony just yesterday and they had 3 onslaughts, all officered, I have a tempest, beatitude, and 3 destroyers from ORA (idk why I’m blanking on the name). I proceeded to kill their 4-7 random frigate/destroyer escorts then just EMP locked them one at a time from behind with the tempest while the beatitude beat some sense into them. Their engines are so slow they cannot help each other or disengage fast enough, once caught out they just sit there and die. With high tech ships, your speed, shields, and light use of armor can offer you a second chance, while most low tech ships don’t get that chance at all. Now I’m not saying a onslaught should be able to tank the world, just would be nice if they could tank just a bit more than now, and that goes for all low tech ships.