Sorry, I didnt mean to get all psychotic there but when the rough numbers put you at a single post death, with absolutely NOTHING you could have done about it, I started thinking about Gall and Dem being able to field these things, and it scared the hell out of me, lmao!!!
Ok, here goes for my ideas with your suggestions.
For GE/IR:
Ok for the VEC and ESC, I think we should leave them alone, but drop the advanced from the loadouts and limit the compliments to no more then 1/3 bombers. I mean they are carriers after all, but still. So the VEC/ESC would only be able to carry tie fighters, tie interceptors, and tie bombers 4 and 2 respectively. That way even if someone tries to field VECs awesome, you got 36 squads of fighters, and its all tie fighters, lol.
The tie avenger... this is a vong era ship, we should just drop it all together. The imps have the XG-1 for this kind of power/defense, and they cost 2:1 to have, which is perfect for such power on an imp fighter.
The only limit on the tie bomber should be for the VEC/ESC an only due to an issue of balance. I can assure you, if I could get away with it, I would have carriers filled with Y-Wings, so we should not limit the T/B either.
I absolutely love the idea of stock units being limited to T/F and Z-95s. Although its not very cannon for the timeline, it really does crush the abuse ive been using on neutral units over rebel units due to "listed" fighter/aux compliments on the rebel units. Which evidentally is no longer an issue anyway, lol. But either way, I love it because due to the power of bombers, if you want em, you should have to build them. I want this rule!!
As far as bombing runs, with the the increased difficulty in attaining them, perhaps we should leave it alone, kind of a bonus for building them. Seeing as they are not a stock unit for anyone, we dont have to worry about ships coming out of the gate with 8+ squads of em, and like you said, if you paid for it, you took the time to build it, why shouldnt you be able to use it? With this being said, I think both the B-Wing and Assault Gunboat should have a proton bomb added to them to signify them as bombers. Why should only Y-Wings and T/Bs get all the fun when these 2 are clearly classified as bombers as well?
And we should list it you MAY NOT perform a bombing run during a death response. Kinda like we said stuff cant move when its blowing up, how is a bomber doing a bombing run when its blowing up?
