Elite Dangerous | Module review | Imperial Hammer Railgun 

The single issue is that The Hammers upside is an 8.4% increase in damage per burst but the downside a 65% increase in heat. Thats more heat then even short range (though you have the advantage of range, obviously). Problem is, as shown in the video you’ll be overheating all the time either forcing you to deploy a heatsink (requiring utility mounts) or hold fire (negating the minor upside). I run 4 rails on my Gunship (shieldless low emo cold runner), I have 2 Sirius heatsinks and 2 sets of rails one being long range Hammers and the other being SRB vanilla, both are all super pen. The SRBs have never outpaced my heatsinks while the Hammers will chew them up regularly. Something else to note is Super Pen requires all 3 shots to land to kick in, making it nearly useless on Hammers as even the best will miss enough to negate the upside (8.4%, thats really not worth the 7.5 million credits for the PowerPlay grind). Gonna swap my Hammer loadout to normal rails, just too much heat. They are good as Feedbackers on big ships (Corvettes love em ironically).

@DryHeatAndSand - great, informative video, as always! Your voice sounds different, though - you're speaking much more slowly, articulating each word, as if speaking to a non-English-speaking person. Is this deliberate?