I think space bombs are a hilarious outfit. They are almost pointless in all practical combat. They almost compare to Heavy Rockets in my perspective. Only in an ambush would they prove effective. 
How has everyone used this unique outfit?
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I never use them , to slow to be useful and too heavy to be practical, not good.
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Believe me, they can be exceptionally dangerous if used correctly. Have you seen what a single space bomb does to a fed cruiser? Like, wow. Yes, they cost 15000cr each, but then missiles cost just over 3000cr, and when you consider how much damage 15000cr worth of missiles do (that's just under 5 missiles, or about 6% damage), then the bombs are good value. I personally don't have major dealings with them, because I don't want to have to trek half way across the galaxy just to reload.
They are better than heavy rockets if used correctly. I find that a good tacticis to run towards the cruiser, turn your ship, launch the bomb as the cruiser comes onto the screen, then leg it away as quickly as possible. It works, and it really dishes out the damage. If I want to take down a cruiser in, say, a corvette, i sell the rocket launcher and buy in the bombs. Kill the patrol ships and then kill the cruiser with the bombs. nice.
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I like them! but in a small ship its dangerous I dont know how many times I killed my self with space boms.HA HA HA
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if it dosent doesn't
squiel its not worth
killing
Ahhh, yes.... the old, "OH my god, I'm going to fast!" has cost me quite a bit of time and confusion. I think one can take down a Kestrel 50%, although I haven' t tried it in the Rebel Destroyer yet.
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In addition to the dangers of using the Space Bomb, it is an ilegal outfit. But who cares since the Confederation outlawed them...
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I never buy them, since I destroy them with missiles and torpedoes before they get In range. I'll probably try them soon, though.
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The correct use of space bombs:
When a leak occurs in your ship's Ultramatic Recyclable Model 3000 Mega Toilets,
you apply the space bomb to stop the leak and prevent flooding.
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But seriously, they can be deadly. Sadly, they are so hard to use you might as
well not bother.
Now if they were designed not to hit the user, you could make a pass at the opponent
and launch one when you're on top of them, but they're not, so they're pretty
horrible weapons.
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But they're so good against cruisers! The trick is not to make a pass over the ship, rather to launch the bomb and leg it in the opposite direction.
Bombs were never designed to hit lightning fast fighters, rather slow and stationary objects, so against light and heavy capital ships, they're really rather useful if you're in an inferior ship.
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Originally posted by cable_guy:
**But they're so good against cruisers! The trick is not to make a pass over the ship, rather to launch the bomb and leg it in the opposite direction.
Bombs were never designed to hit lightning fast fighters, rather slow and stationary objects, so against light and heavy capital ships, they're really rather useful if you're in an inferior ship.
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I agree. The only time I use space bombs is against large vessels such as Confed Cruisers or Pirate Kestrels. Otherwise, I rarely use them...
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i used them once but then i didn't use them correctly. my friend uses them a lot. he used that against the alien cruiser. i just don't like that they are only available on spica, if they were more available i'd use them.
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True! there is about 3-4 places to get them. But still those places are at the opposit ends of the galaxi so when you are epty you have to make a journey across the gayaxy to fill up.
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if it dosent doesn't
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killing
This reminds me, of one of the coolest weapons I made. I used the spacebombs graphics, and made a nuclear warhead. The cool part was, you could jump into a system, launch it immedietly and turn away and it would blow up directly over the center of the system, covering about half the area inside the no jump zone with massive dammage. The cool part was, I had another special weapon that could actually shoot the warheads down, and the warheads wouldn't hit anyships en route to the center of the system, this was using EVO's 1.02 engine though, so it would automattically blow up at the end of its lifespan.
Chamrin
Floating chunks of rock,
Space bomb drops too soon- KABOOM!
Time for escape pod!
Am I a great poet or did I hit X after the startup screen?
Another fun thing you can do with bombs is lay several around a planet before demanding tribute
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The best time to use space bombs are when 20 defenders are chasing behind you. Then, you launch a few space bombs, and watch the entire fleet of defenders incinerate and disintigrate! 
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