[Androgeos Exeunt]

Isn't that what he sounds like in most of his orders anyway?

...I always thought the voice acting for Command was pretty good...

Actually, I think so too. Here and there, I imitate his "Incoming jump signature! Hostile configuration!"

[Snail]

The true motives of command will never be revealed...

They will be in my campaign... Which isn't really my campaign at all... Which I should be FREDding for...

[haloboy100]

[reallybadjoke]Looks like that campaign is running at a snail's pace![/reallybadjoke]

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Is the Loki a good ship to fly?

[Snail]

[reallybadjoke]Looks like that campaign is running at a snail's pace![/reallybadjoke]

A Snail who is on dope, but yeah.

[nvsblmnc]

Is the Loki a good ship to fly?

Yes.  You'll need to work for your kills, but it's one of the most responsive ships in the game, and only a handful of fighters are faster.

[bfobar]

I like the flight characteristics of the myrm. It's a good all-rounder and I never seem to run out of power like in the eyrines. My fighting style is usually to close distance quickly and then swing in behind the ship, shoot the rear shield off, and then put tempests or interceptors up the tail pipe while still shooting.

Sure the eyrines and aeres have the best firepower hands down, but I'd rather take a myrm or a perseus and boost the engines so that I can zip around the battle. That always seems more useful in a dog fight. The mission with the herc II vs maras etc coming through the knossos is maddeningly hard for me because of the speed disadvantage (comparatively)

I've played online and I get spanked by people using eyrines with maxims and flails because they just sit there using mouse aiming and act like turrets, but I just can't bring myself to play like that.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I like the flight characteristics of the myrm. It's a good all-rounder and I never seem to run out of power like in the eyrines. My fighting style is usually to close distance quickly and then swing in behind the ship, shoot the rear shield off, and then put tempests or interceptors up the tail pipe while still shooting.

Sure the eyrines and aeres have the best firepower hands down, but I'd rather take a myrm or a perseus and boost the engines so that I can zip around the battle. That always seems more useful in a dog fight. The mission with the herc II vs maras etc coming through the knossos is maddeningly hard for me because of the speed disadvantage (comparatively)

I've played online and I get spanked by people using eyrines with maxims and flails because they just sit there using mouse aiming and act like turrets, but I just can't bring myself to play like that.

Try using a different fighter. The Myrmidon has a fairly huge target profile, so it's easy to hit. If you want to run rings around slower fighters, try a Loki, Perseus, or Pegasus.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Try using a different fighter. The Myrmidon has a fairly huge target profile, so it's easy to hit. If you want to run rings around slower fighters, try a Loki, Perseus, or Pegasus.

     The myrm's got a brutal climb rate too. And I'm used to climbing when I pursue a fighter myself.

[Mars]

Climb infers that there's an up 

[Jeff Vader]

Most certainly.

[Mars]

Yes, but what is he talking about the Myrmidons "climb rate" for?

[Jeff Vader]

Idunno. Maybe he needs to increase his "altitude" when pursuing hostile fighters.

[Akalabeth Angel]

     Er, people. The fighters rotate at different speeds in different directions, and if you pull back in the stick in a Myrmidon, which is essentially climbing in any other aerial combat game, you would realize that the things moves as slow as dirt because it has a rotational factor of 4.0 or 5.0 whereas moving to the sides is about half of that.

     That's a pretty easy concept to grasp I would think.
     There's no real up/down north/south/east/west on a planet anymore than there is in space anyway. Being on a planet only makes the relativity of objects much more obvious. In a solar system like Sol, one could argue that there's an up or a down based upon the plane that the planets are rotating on for example. With the appropriate landmarks directions become more obvious, but all things are essentially relative.

[Mars]

Well yes I understand that... but it would apply to diving as well... therefore vertical rotation would be a better term.

That's why in virtually all fighters it's better to roll and rotate to the side, this is especially true with the Ulysses.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

It's called pitching, I think. Pitch forward is turn down, pitch backward is turn up.

[BengalTiger]

Is the Loki a good ship to fly?

"Love the Treason...", Loki with heat seekers, speed high, and tossing a missile at each Herc I while it charges at you does magic (read target practice while being almost untouchable after a small practice session).

Here heat seekers are even more magic than Aspect seekers in this mission, because you have to fly straight for 1-2 seconds to get a lock, making it easier for the Hercs, and a heat seeker can hit a target that flies straight at you with ease.

[bfobar]

Try using a different fighter. The Myrmidon has a fairly huge target profile, so it's easy to hit. If you want to run rings around slower fighters, try a Loki, Perseus, or Pegasus.

     The myrm's got a brutal climb rate too. And I'm used to climbing when I pursue a fighter myself.

yeah pitch rate is great. I like the perseus a lot too, but if I need more primary firepower and shields, I'll take the myrm. (It's like... Space superiority vs interceptor roles!)
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[Stormkeeper]

yeah pitch rate is great. I like the perseus a lot too, but if I need more primary firepower and shields, I'll take the myrm. (It's like... Space superiority vs interceptor roles!)

He was being sacarstic. IIRC, the myrmidon handles like a potato. And if I needed more primary firepower and shields, I'd just grab a Herc2.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Speak for yourself, Storm. I'd prefer the Myrmidon to the Horus.

I've just done the first few missions of The Procyon Insurgency, and I find myself flying the Serapis over the Thoth and Horus.