Unit: Bomber
Role: Anti-Capital
Ship
Attack: 439
Speed: 260
Hit Points:
150
Cost: 550 (5 craft)
Weaponry:
2
x Plasma Bomb Launchers
(gimbal
mount)
Upgrades:
Improved Bombs: 1500
RU
Lvl 1 Bomber Engines: 500
RU
Lvl 2 Bomber Engines: 500
RU
Special
Version:
Elite
Bomber*
Speed: 451
Attack: 789
Hit Points: 450
*Several
squadrons of Elite Bombers are awarded to the player in the
second single-player mission if more than four crew
transports are rescued.
The
Bomber is a deadly combination of maneuverability and
destructive firepower. The twin fusion bomb launchers
release highly volatile bottled plasma that burns through
hull plating, ignites munitions stores, and overloads
control systems.
"Bombers
can research advanced munitions that enable them to take out
subsystems with more ease." - Josh Mosquiera, Lead Designer
"We
want fighters to be useful all the time. So we have a lot of
upgrades to make them better. They'll also be better for
taking out subsystems. Other ships can target the
subsystems, but if you send a squadron of bombers they
should be able to decimate the subsystems. Kind of like in Star
Wars where it took an X-Wing to disable the Death
Star." - Josh Mosquiera, Lead Designer
"Fighters
maybe be smaller and weaker, but their speed allows them to
swoop past slower defenders and sneak in under the firing
arcs of bigger ships. Without a proper balance of combined
fleets, it is possible for a fighter squadron to disable
even a Battlecruiser." - Dan Irish, Executive
Producer
"Classes
of ships range from the small and agile fighters, equipped
with anything from standard weapons to powerful torpedoes,
to the gigantic and slow moving, yet extraordinarily
powerful battleships. Without corvette escorts to take down
fighters, capital ships are vulnerable to torpedoes, without
frigates your fighters will be vulnerable to the corvettes
that mince them." - Dan Adams, IGN PC
An
update of the plasma-bomb armed Attack Bomber from the first
game.
The
Improved Bombs upgrade allows Bombers to launch
anti-subsystems bombs.
Unlike
their Kushan predecessors, Bombers are very effective
against capital-class ships.
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