Mobile Drilling System as combat weapon?

[verylargesnake]

According to the info on Argonopedia, the mining laser will cause 4000 units of shield damage per shot and 6000 units of hull damage per shot. Compared to the Gamma HEPT 3000 units of shield damage and 2000 units of hull damage the mining laser would seem to be a formidable weapon for short range combat. Has anyone tried it out under combat? what were the outcomes?

[The_Abyss]

Nothing tends to stay still long enough, but I have used them for missile defence before.

[Rapier]

'Bullet' speed is far too low to hit anything except by luck. Repeat rate is also slow, in the same time you could have fired three or four HEPT shots that, together, would do more damage.

[JTressy]

Also you can only mount it on TLs and TSs and you generally don't dogfight with them...(at least i don't anyway!)

[Constipated_Vigilante]

Might it be good to equip on OOS ships, though? It has a high laser value, might let a TL be an extremely formidable sector defender.

[Lordcd]

it would become useful if you could target subsystems like engines and then after those are down unleash hell with the mining laser.

[Brianetta]

It might be fun to get a bunch of Demeters to take down a station with them.

[JaimeWolf]

Demeters on Auto-pilot don't tend to get close enough to a station to use the Mining Laser on them.
I have personally dispatched many a target in my Demeter armed with a Mining Laser up front and an APSG in the rear.
The Mining Laser is a formidable weapon if you can get the timing right.
For quite a while I had a Demeter called "Heads or Rocks ..." and a following Dolphin called "Its all the same" implying that the duo were equally happy breaking rocks or breaking heads. Both were profitable ventures

[bladeuk]

Ive used it against a station before, it was ok but the range leaves a lot to be desired

[esd]

It saved my butt many a-time during my early mining career...

[mike11]

Mobile Drilling System as Combat weapon? Can you post the picture of that? I am not familiar with that combat weapon.

[Shadow-Thief]

According to the info on Argonopedia, the mining laser will cause 4000 units of shield damage per shot and 6000 units of hull damage per shot. Compared to the Gamma HEPT 3000 units of shield damage and 2000 units of hull damage the mining laser would seem to be a formidable weapon for short range combat. Has anyone tried it out under combat? what were the outcomes?

slow ships with large amounts of shields. have them target something big like a station or frigate or what ever

Or fast ships. IDK

Sounds more like of a heavy weapon used against stationary or "slow" targets.

[Alan Phipps]

When OOS in X3R, just watch a freighter fitted with MDS take out an attacking typically under-equipped M3 in one shot (best if it fires first though). It is a great defensive weapon OOS as Constipated_Vigilante suggested.

[esd]

Mobile Drilling System as Combat weapon? Can you post the picture of that? I am not familiar with that combat weapon.

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