Broadsword Heavy Fighter Wing

Broadsword Heavy Fighter Wing
Designation	Heavy Fighter
Logistical Data
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
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

Up to date for latest version, 0.97a.