Talk:Inspiring Recruit/@comment-78.69.15.159-20170226212426/@comment-454133-20170226221702

Not necessarily a problem; people make fat large ships all the time. A decimator soaks a lot of damage and can do decent harm to enemies by using Rage, and the occasional unavoidable damage if he can line up a ram. If it's flanked by the right allies it can do well.

I recently flew a decimator that was a lot like this. If I flew it again I'd add Darth Vader (Crew) to stack up the harm; I didn't do it last time because I was fighting a friend who hasn't played in a while, and didn't want to overwhelm him (he hates fighting decimators, and I don't want to discourage him from playing in the future). It went pretty well, but he arc-dodged my other ships very well and killed them too early. He then poured damage on the decimator and only barely managed to kill it (he was pretty low health). It was kind of an awesome fight. ^_^