Your Favorite/worse weapon poll

[Taera]

Favorite weapon: Crystal Shard. Just love the gun.
Least Liked: PPB. Tell me whatever you want, i hate this gun.

As for Ripper,Incentrator and WMG, actually it makes sense to put them on large mounts on ground surface. Also ripper should not be understimated as unexpected fleet of cruisers armed to teeth with rippers, tractors and shield depleters can be awfully deadly.

[Wardad]

I use DUCs first and then switch to PPB. I'll add shield depleters when phased shields appear.

Usually by then the game is pretty much decided. I am either losing and can't afford to change, or I'm winning and don't need to change much. So I might not get the chance to research the APBs.

The PPB is an expensive weapon. So for units like SATs I might use smaller and cheaper Meson BLasters and Ripper Beams. A large SAT mount adds 4 range. A medium SAT can hold large mount Shield depleters, Ripper Beams, and armor. Quite a bit of bang for the Buck.

The PPB is so damn expensive and the higher level ones don't do much more damage. I will sometimes use the lower levels. Especiaaly for build time critical Weapon plateforms.

I guess the Tachyon cannon is the worst.

[Shadow Master]

This realy depends on what I'm fighting.

Favorites

For heavy armor:Null Space
For heavy sheild:Sheild Destroyer Thingy
For raw damage:Ripper Beam
For when I want to be a pain:Allegiance Subverter
For when I need to stall:Mental Flayler

Least Favorite:

Point defense (who needs it?)

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Shadow Master:
Point defense (who needs it?)

You need it against Missle laden dreadnoughts
And races that use them such as the Jreanar, Krill, Norak, and Toltoyan.

Krill and Toltoyan Missle DNs are especially dangerous since they carry Plasma missles, which are faster than normal missles.

I've probably lost about 50 ships against them in combat because of insufficient Point Defense.

[Taera]

I do not understand why is everyone here so much against the Tachyon gun. It is expensive alright but if you have a good resource base and can aford a couple of these on LCs or so the game will get much more interesting. Remember that the smallest components usualy get hurt, meaning that the weapon takes out PDCs quite easy because they got no mounts to defend themselves.

Theoretically this weapon can be considered a counter to most other weapons because it simply disables them. If only it had slightly better damage it would be one of my Favorites. Untill then, i'll stick with energy dampener.

EDIT: Forgot to add that once i researched this weapon rather easy as a cheap research and put a couple to support my missile fleet. Given i had a few shield depleters the results were amazing. Later on i used SD/APB/TAC weapon combo with maximum range. Whenever the enemy came too close he could no longer fire This weapon is useful, especialy given the surprise element

[ October 10, 2002, 02:55: Message edited by: Taera ]

[Pablo]

Favs: seeking parasite (fastest reloading missiles) and PPB.
Least use: Massive shield depleater/disperser. Just hate to think that I could miss with that and then all the space it takes is wasted

[oleg]

I play Proportions mod only, so my list
is for that mod:

Favorite : Torpedos. PvK made them usefull
and I simply like the sound they made.
Uuooghhh... Uuooghh... or something
Shield-skipping Graviton Hellbore in Prop2.5
is my second favorite.

Useless: Direct-fire Organic weapons. PvK left them as in normal SE and with all those changes to other weapons Organic' are very weak. Seeking Parasite is the only worthy organic weapon now

PPB are almost useless too - research cost is very high.