Your favirote ship and why?

[Phoenix-D]

Terran Battleship. Only a little extra space over the Abbidon heavy cruiser, but with manuvering thrusters and afterburners it performs quite nicely, and the extra weapon points help a lot.

The Abbidon battleship would be nice for sheer size, but the hardpoints are in weird spots..

[Wardad]

The Addiban Battleship III.

Plenty of room to hold goodies like electronics, shield regenerators, and more.
But, it absolutly needs the manuvering thrusters to bring the rear guns into the battle.

[Rollo]

From the looks I like the Fazrah CR the best. Very graceful.

For power I prefer the Xiati BB. Nothing beats those massive broadsides .

[Captain Kwok]

I like the Xiati "Skull" ships, such as the Battleship. Not much is worse when you have a few of those firing at you.

Runner up would be the Abbidon Battleship.

Overall, I think they did a good job with most of the stock ships in the game.

[Manta_Ky]

I traded up for a Terran Carrier recently. I think I am in love. She has all the electronics mounted with 6 fighter bays. Her forward biased hardpoints allow you to pour out an almost constant stream of death. Plus the fighters are fun. The pilots are stupid and the crash alot. But they are good at drawing fire away from you. And I have nothing else to spend all my money on, so loosing them is no biggy.

Has anybody else use fighters? What have you learned about them?

[brainman.9Hells]

Originally posted by Manta_Ky:
I traded up for a Terran Carrier recently. (...)The pilots are stupid and the crash alot. But they are good at drawing fire away from you.
(...)
Has anybody else use fighters? What have you learned about them?

I tried the Terrar Carrier, but I haven't been able constantly find fighters at shops... I end up being without fighters. It's very annoying that they crash into you.

My pref'ed ship is the Xiati Battleship III. The strategy is to overwhelm enemies PD with missiles. 2 or 3 volleys kill most ships. I only have a hard time against other Xiati Battleships.

The Xiati battleship can carry up to 6 plasma missiles (40kt). I use a tachyon beam on front so I can shoot fleeing enemies engines and DUC on the right side (lightweight, great reload time, decent damage, great for circling the enemy at close range).

So my ship goes like this
Front: tachyon + 2 plasma torps
right: 2 plasma torps + 2 DUC's
left : 2 toxic injectors
3 PD guns
75kt of energy supply
This leaves room for all eletronics + long range scanners + repair bay + shield regenerator + energy capacitor(name?), 2 cargo holds.
The remaining space goes for shields/armor in a 2/1 proportion, regular shields, regen armor

Regards,
brainman

[Renegade 13]

I usually go for the Abbidon Battleship III. Why? It's a great mulit-purpose ship. Its large size relative to other battleships allows me to indulge my love of shields. Although it doesn't have as many weapons hardpoints, it doesn't matter if you have tons of shielding.

BTW, does anyone else use 160kT forward shielding? Maybe that's overkill, but when you're facing a ton of Xiati ships looking for a kill, it comes in real handy. And with the huge size of the Abbidon Battleship, you can afford to use tons of space on shields.

I usually go for Anti-Proton beams forward, with a couple of toxic injectors thrown in for fun, although they become more and more useless as enemy PD usage increases. Another couple of AP beams on the sides, and I'm unstoppable

Renegade