Your Favorite/worse weapon poll

[Ed Kolis]

Favorite weapon: Phased Polaron Beam. Excellent damage at a decent range for a low research cost - and it's shield piercing too!

Least favorite weapon: Wormhole Beam. So let me get this straight, you have to research level 4 Physics, and all you get is this stupid weapon that moves an enemy ship 5 squares in a random direction??? If I wanted to move an enemy ship I'd use Tractor or Repulser beams, that way I could control which way I moved him!

[Gryphin]

Ok, mac,
Now is the time to start an actual poll to coutn up, the number of PPB afectionados and detractors, etc

[ZeroAdunn]

I also like the Wave Motion gun. However, it is not to be used as a primary weapon. You need something to back it up on a turn to turn basis while you wait for it to reload.

The weapon I like least: I hate the shard cannon in unmodded SE. Very few people use much armor, and armor remains mostly unimportant so a cannon that bypasses it serves little purpose.

[Taera]

Re: WormHole beam: you understimate this gun.
it does not move a ship in 5 random direction. It teleports it to completely random location within map boundaries. Tested it. Or at least, it works that way in 1.49. i dont think somebody bothered to change this. Also, tractor/repulser only work on same tonnage or less while excort with WHB could easily move a starbase, baseship or whatever you want. Physics 4 are though a bit of too much for this support weapon but still...

And it can be a useful addition to those AS ships. Either you hit it or send it away.

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Taera:
Re: WormHole beam: you understimate this gun.
it does not move a ship in 5 random direction. It teleports it to completely random location within map boundaries.

Yeah, I haven't used them since 1.49 either. But they work as you say anywhere on the combat map. Only once in dozens of fireings did it move a ship closer than it was. That ship did a lot of damage before that next turn.

Always put a replusor on after the wormhole beam. If somethig gets warped to point blank range, at least it gets thrown a distance away

[oleg]

Wormhole beam is awesome. I once attacked some TDM Ai planet (think it was Master Belizarious pet). Planet had large WP with Ionic dispersor and wormhole beam. Before captain of my ship reilized what is going on, WP vaporized engines and then throw the ship into the corner where it sit for the remaining of the battle

Weapon I believe nobody uses - Crystaline torpedo. Miserable damage, so-so speed and structure points. Even reload of 2 does not help

[Taera]

Hey, that was my tactic MB is using! for some reason i see a lot of my own tactics employed by MB, thats wierd.

Crystalline... playing with them now. seems that it is a late-game special type weapons. Not early game tho.