Requiemking, on 25 July 2017 - 07:05 PM, said:
Except, they would be. SRMs deal two damage per missile, ATMs deal 3 damage per missile at the same ranges with more missiles. LRMs have terrible spread, ATMs have better spread due to having fewer missiles. Not to mention that ATMs are actually useful at the ranges where both of the more specialised missile systems fail at.
SRMs are lighter, they dont have a lock on mechanic(so player controls Viability)
and as they have a much higher velocity(they are more Accurate, and AMS resistant)
ATM3(9Damage/1.5Tons) weighs the same as an SRM6(12Damage/1.5Tons)
ATM6(18Damage/3.5Tons) weighs the as much as 2SRM4+A(16Damage/4Tons)
ATM9(27Damage/5Tons) weighs the as much as 2SRM6+A(24Damage/5Tons)
you can see they would still be viable even with ATMs having a Min Range,
as ATMs would still be ECM/AMS vulnerable, as where SRMs arnt,
Edited by Andi Nagasia, 25 July 2017 - 07:19 PM.