Broadsword Heavy Fighter Wing

Broadsword Heavy Fighter Wing
Logistical Data
Designation Heavy Fighter Ordnance points 8 Fighters in wing 3 Crew per fighter 1
Combat Performance
Base replacement time (seconds) 10 Combat speed 200 Formation V Maximum engagement range 4000 Weapons 2x Light Machine Gun Fighter system Decoy Flare Launcher Hull integrity 750 Armor 100 Flux capacity 80 Flux dissipation 10
Advanced Stats
Mass 30 Fleet points 6 Attack run range 500 Acceleration 400 Deceleration 350 Max turn rate 90 Turn acceleration 180

	Tough and agile, the Broadsword carries a decoy flare launcher that draws defensive fire away from high-value targets like bombers and their payloads. However, it can falter if faced with the need to deal the killing blow itself.
–In-Game Description

Notes

The Broadsword is a quintessential escort fighter, designed to fly ahead of bomber wings and distract the target with decoy flares as well as flux it up with the dual Light Machine Guns. It sacrifices some speed for extra armor and hull, which is just as well since it's still faster than all bombers with explosive payloads anyway. Note the terrible flux dissipation stat - after little over two seconds of continuous fire the kinetic DPS will drop to about 25% of advertised; as the description indicates, it really requires support from other wings to be effective.

Change History

0.8a

• reworked

Only up to date for version 0.9.1. It is likely still broadly correct but not verified for the most up to date data yet. Please double check the Version History