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by delray » Tue, 10. Apr 12, 08:49
Tempest has 15 000 less damage, 15km less range, takes only 1 less space, and the fab produces 15 per hour, while you get 24 T-bolts in the same time frame, with more range and damage. Yea, Tempest is smarter and thus probably the only useful Boron missile, but is it all that much better?
I typically fire this kind of missiles at M4s and turret-less M3s across the sector (everything else gets a Hurricane/Wasp or a Typhoon, firing Tempest/Thunderbolt at LX or N for that matter is pointless). For that use, extra range T-bolt is more useful than Tempest, since there typically isn't much to reacquire (every suitable target gets his own missile from far away and disappears not long after).
I started adding Tempest when I finally got sick of Silkworm, to serve the same purpose, spammy missile for my fighters. Might be tad more expensive (in fabs and cargo space), but Silkworm never was a good idea due to its terrible speed and much lower damage, the only thing saving it was spammy factories (100/hour isn't it?) and low cargo space usage, but since you need three Silkworms to do one Tempest's or one Thunderbolt's job, it evens out and they can be dropped in favour of something else (more Typhoon for example since those fabs only produce 6/hour while it's the most universal missile for the big ships).
Another missile I dropped is Dragonfly, Hurricane is just so much better than Dragonfly for the kind of M5 job it performs, where Wasp fails in agility and range. Other "sucky" mentions: Aurora (lol-missile you detonate yourself), Firefly (need 100 to hurt something), Cyclone (slower than everything it can hurt), Wraith (I'm kidding, I'm kidding :-p).
Where is it?
Cobra Mk. III Cmdr.
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