I personally always try to buy a hornet if I have the chance. When I'm doing high-paying missions to get more money, the AI always leave behind guns that bring in roughly an extra 30K each. So when they're running away it's handy to have it then. Also, when the AI are almost dead you can finish them off with a hornet, even corsairs in Titans. Speeds along the whole mission. Can also be used during duels but that's kinda cheap.

Hornets turn faster and move faster. That's it. On Oregon, you can find wasps all over the place, so I use wasps. On other servers, I stick with the hornets. Because hornets move faster, you can fire them later and you have slightly more time to react to an incoming missile. If you're trying to save money, use wasps. Other than that, hornets do a decent amount of hull damage, it can finish someone who is running around with one bar of hull left in one or two shots.

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Wasp, unless the Hornet is available for me to use. Not much difference, the Hornet is just a little spiffier than the Wasp. Sort of like the difference between the Screamer and the Ripper.

No there's a difference between ripper and screamer. But err, hornets are better if you can afford it. Just seems more effective.

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In most sytems u can salvage wasps from ur dead opponiants, there cheap and they do the job so why buy the more expenseve one

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their are some reasons to use the wasp over the hornet, if you doing pvp... the hornet is a powerfull tool to use... if your doing only missions, why buy the hornet... leave the spot empty till you get a wasp from your enemy and put that on... ammo will come in time for them

this is only my oppinion in this case...

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wasp whole the way, cheap and effective. and hornets well i just hate them. 1. i think they pretty much screw the existence of light fighters 2. besides they own light fighters it's just not worth the extra money. really it only is slightly better but you got to pay more then 2k for each hornet, while a wasp cost only 91.

I prefer Hornets. 1:good in pvp, 2: If Im gonna have a HIDEOUS launcher on my ship, i'd better for be a good reason 3:Wasps suck. Paying an extra, o, 63k is fine by me.

A not-so-obvious use for disrupters that Hornets are far better at- because of their high speed and maneuverability, disrupter missiles can be used to intercept incoming projectiles- torpedos, missiles, mines. Most players probably wouldn't give you a whole lot of room to do that in, but it is pretty fun to do with the AIs. The most amusing AI kills I've gotten have been using disrupters to detonate enemy missiles as they launch- it's hard to do and depends almost entirely on luck, but when you do pull it off there's nothing more satisfying.

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All CD's are useful. They intercept missiles with their explosion range of 50m. Because of that, the missile might explode and damage your opponent. They can also disrupt engine kill. The hornet can reach a missile quicker which makes it more effective, but I can spam wasps just the same. With that said, on most servers, the hornet is my favorite launcher.

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yeah, hornets are a damn missile in use against low leveled fighters, aka. starflier, patriot, dagger, defender, bloodhound, mule and piranha...

i thus fights the best duelling is no cd, no mines, no cm, no batts/nano... this is a lot off fun, and with no cm, it all become on player skills when the enemy is using missiles...

but also the heavy costs, if your able to affort it, and if you wanna pay fdor them, then the real adventage is that the missile is 100m/s faster, does a lot hulldamage more and has 500 or 1000 more range... don't remember, lol...

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