I currently cannot access steam and I don't usually give out karma its really a formality nothing else.

I hand out karma like it's candy!

O rly?  Take a karma pie to da face!

You joking?  LRF shred pretty much everything.  They have a very high DPS per supply and antimedium damage does 75% damage or higher to pretty much everything.

Antimedum is probably the second best frigate damage type after composite- which only comes on short range units.  There's a reason LRF pretty much WAS the meta for so long in diplomacy- because LRF kill pretty much every frigate in the game fast.  Yes they counter LF the hardest, but that's far from their only purpose...in fact they are probably more useful for killing heav yarmor units like guardians late game then LF are(LF being the heavya rmor counter) being that LF survival rates in late game fleet battles is abyssmal.

Just because heavy armor isn't what LRF are absolutely best at doesn't mean they suck at it- for some ships this  may be the case, but the anti-m,edium damage type is one of the most versatile damage types in the game- especially for the Javelis which has a positively amazing DPS:supply ratio.

Corvettes are the chief difference in regards to LRF.  And frankly flak counters corvettes every bit as hard as corvettes counter LRF.  The fact that LRF in turn have a counter does not change the fact that they can counter repulse- everything should have a counter, it's not reasonable to expect a counter which it's self cannot be countered.

Again, I'm not entirely opposed to reducing repulse's effect a bit.  I just disagree with your prognosis on the complete uncounterability of repulse.  there's a difference between "a bit too strong/hard to counter" and "impossible to deal with"/"absolutely without counters" as you seem to imply.

I'd like to just point out that back in the day, the TEC vs. Advent match-up was abysmal...once the Advent got repulse, it was very difficult as TEC to defeat an Advent fleet...even with LRM spam, guardians were simply too hard to kill fast enough...

Then illuminators got nerfed, and the Advent generally couldn't get repulse soon enough to make a difference...so it was easily forgotten for awhile, and thus I'd like to refresh everyone's memory that people wailed for a repulse nerf even back then, when LRMs were KING (excluding the OP illuminator, of course)....

And now, LRMs aren't that good of an option...flak, fighters, HCs, CVs: they all counter LRFs, and they all counter them hard...hell, even bombers are pretty damn good against the things (though bombers are good against just about anything)...the only ship that isn't good against LRFs is LFs...no wonder Repulse is once again a problem....

Im just going to shut down the whole post by saying ive done it and it works. Its easily abusable.

Flak counters LRFs also...

It's a tactic that has been around forever with Advent. It's not abuse, it's strategy for the advent race that is clearly intended by Ironclad. It also takes a fair amount of skill to use effectively. Sorry, no nerf for you.

Flak is not a counter to LRF. Flak is effective against LRF if micro'd properly.

*sigh* No it doesn't. Only one of those is a hard counter to LRF's (not sure why he left out Corvettes). The days of only building LRF has met it's match due to Corvettes and Titans (esp. with AOE abilities). 

Simply saying something HARD counters another unit is not the same as it actually HARD countering the unit. We don't need to nerf units based on perceptions and emotions.

Hes a bloody fool--says lrm sucks-- 

Javelis is cheap, has splash damage upgrades, with command cruisers it gets 40% damage boost before mitigation and armor, destroys caps and guardians in seconds with targeting up-link. Add carriers with bombers and well--the 40% is still in play--do the maths. 

==Officially in rebellions final release after corvette changes==

open with flak then lrm, skip the fools who build lf and get punished (hint hint: Mayall the inferior)...

Tec's insane economy makes javelis so spammable, so deadly, corvettes added in the mixure makes for an excellent titan killing fleet. 

To hell with all the noobs who don't invest in armor upgrades to make javelis level with HC's hull integrity..as opposed to their opponents because in the end your only defense against chastic burst is armor, mitigation and strength in numbers.

I love you, Mayall.  I really do.  

However, it would have been impossible for him to build Halcyons with TKP.

Why do I say that?  TKP didn't work at the time of the match, and still doesn't.

Bloody acronyms  

I glossed over your post when I didn't see Corvette or your CV... But...

Still FLAK is not a hard counter. Flak only do 75% to Light armor and unless you constantly position them your not getting all banks firing. Sorry, I just don't consider FLAK a hard counter because of this.  

This I agree with as more accurately stated.

Well, I already have LC for light carrier...why can't you understand my personal shorthand???  Didn't you get the telepathic memo??

It's all good...I'd be embarrased to tell you how long it took me to realize what SB stood for...