Basic Combat

Anyone who takes a month to train the skills can fly a battleship, but without combat experience, you will about as effective as someone who tries to stop a semi-truck with a roll of gauze (no offence Macgyver). Let’s take a look at how to fit a ship for any given task, and what types of ships/setups work better in different situations.
First on the list, one of the first ships I flew; The Thorax. This ship is designed as an all-out blaster boat, meaning that it is meant for point blank combat. As such, the way it is designed means that your capacitor runs dry rather quickly. This is ok, as the amount of damage you can put out with 4 or 5 blasters is enough to turn most enemies into a glass bead long before your capacitor empties, provided you get in close and don’t let the target get out of range.
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