Your favirote ship and why?

[Wardad]

I recently outfitted my Abbidon BB III with Toxic Injector torpedos and the Sithrak Psyhic Flailer guns in the front. Both of these weapons are very deadly to the crew.

PD almost always kills the single rack side torpedoes so I don't bother with them any more and save the wieght. But, The side racks have the Sithrak 50K gun that deals a tremendous amount of damage about 230Kt up close.

I have Null Space Torpedoes in the back racks. I was amazed at how deadly they were when they were used on me. I added Psyhic Flailer guns in the back gun rack also.

I am destroying Sithrak BB easily now. They are dying with full shields and armor and a little hull damage.

[Ed Kolis]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen: What's really deadly of course is putting maneuvering thrusters on an Abbidon ship so it can whirl around and use all its weapons quickly in any direction. [/QB]

Ahh, the Pkunk Flaming Blossom of Death

[LesserHellspawn]

My absolute fav is the Xiati battleship MK III as well.

You simply can't touch 7 heavy and 5 light weapon slots with exceptionally large firing arcs. This ship can deliver 100 % firepower forward, with just a slight change of course on approach. Similarly it can fire 6 heavy and 4 light weapons rear, again with only a slight course change. That's enough to overwhelm any enemy PD. And even the broadsides deliver 3 heavy and 2 light weapon loads, when flying in parallel.

The downside is the low hull space. Armor and shields of my ship are paper thin. For that reason I use plasma missiles (small, only 40kt, 180 range) and anti proton beams (with 30kt not exactly small, but 120 range). With that armament I win most battles unscratched. Most AI ships use 140 range torpedoes/missiles and 100 range beams only, so they never ever hit me. Unless they're cruisers and faster than I am. But then they have insufficient defenses to hold against my firepower for long.

I tried out an Abbidon battleship MK III in campaign 2 and got seriously beaten up by the Xiati ships I was up against. A Xiati battleship outguns an Abbidon ship roughly 2:1 in every direction. Attack from behind ? No good. 2 heavy/2 light vs. 6 heavy/4 light. Let them chase and use rear guns ? Not good. 2 heavy/2 light vs. 7 heavy/5 light. broadside to broadside ? 1 heavy/1 light vs. 3 heavy/2 light, ugh. Best would be approaching the broadside of the Xiati head on. But even there the Xiati ship has one heavy weapon more. And if it turns, you face the rear or front batteries again.

[ November 11, 2003, 10:03: Message edited by: LesserHellspawn ]

[Manta_Ky]

You all keep saying the Xiati battleship is good. So I tried it but I don't like it. By the time you load her up with weapons, there is no room for any thing else. Maybe the 1400kt of the Terran Carrier has me spoiled.

Toxic injectors, I just can't use them. They make me feel dirty on the inside...

[LesserHellspawn]

Originally posted by Manta_Ky:
You all keep saying the Xiati battleship is good. So I tried it but I don't like it. By the time you load her up with weapons, there is no room for any thing else. Maybe the 1400kt of the Terran Carrier has me spoiled.

Yes, it has spoiled you

It's true, my setup uses 430 kt of the 1070 kt available for weapons. 200 kt go for the necessary power reactors, another 80 kt for 4 PD guns. That's why I only have 5 kt armor and 20 kt shields (100 kt total). But the setup still totally rocks. I've done all of campaigns 2 and 3 with that ship. And I guarantee that I'd rip your precious carrier to shreds if this game was multiplayer.

[Manta_Ky]

Originally posted by LesserHellspawn:
And I guarantee that I'd rip your precious carrier to shreds if this game was multiplayer.

Probably. But I wouldn't be using my carrier "as is" for mulitplayer. ;-)

[LesserHellspawn]

I'd try my ship. If it wouldn't work, I'd probably use an Abbidon battleship MK III with Sithrak weapons. Their firepower should balance the small firing arcs out. Useless for the campaigns though, since those weapons become available so late.