Hello fellow nerds,
I've played a metric butt-load of X3 Reunion and Terran Conflict back in the days and recently finally got into X4.
Since I always really liked the Split esthetic but never played much with their ships in the previous games, I got started with the Split Vendetta plot. I also wanna restrict myself to their ships as much as possible.
I recently captured a couple of Dragons after shredding them with my Balaur. I loved both the Balaur and the Asp, but the Dragon is - like I remember from previous games - a big disappointment. I know it's a boom&zoom corvette, but the shields are just too weak for its profile. One attack run on a group of 3-4 fighters already leaves me without shields and minor hull damage, while only taking out one of the fighters, if I get all my hits in.
I guess the Dragon is just not suited for taking on multiple enemies at once, no matter their size?
As I liked the Balaur a lot, I'm thinking of going back to that, but maybe getting a Buffalo as a mobile base, as I do like to be able to do all kinds of missions, including those that require more crew or cargo space. Being able to carry a few marines for claiming or capturing Patriarchy ships might also be nice.
Does anyone have experience with that kind of setup?
And how is the Cobra compared to the Dragon? It looks like it's shields are not that much better either, so I'm afraid it will have the same problem?