[Colonol Dekker]

Myrmidon for light bombing? 

(not changing my vote from Erin,  just a discussion point)

[wardog300k]

Myrmidon for light bombing? 

No,I destroyed a Demon with the Myrmidon,alone,so its more of a heavy bombing.

[X3N0-Life-Form]

Agreed, anything that involves lobbing around Helios torpedoes definitely qualifies as "Heavy bombing".

[Thisisaverylongusername]

You just made me realize that the Myrmidon is probably the GTVA's best bomber, because it can get in, drop it's torpedoes, and get out, and can defend itself well enough if it has to. Only disadvantages are a small payload and no Maxim, but it still does the job.

Loki is still the best fighter for me, though.

[General Battuta]

The Helios thing is funny but it's got to be a table error.

[The E]

Yeah, I'm pretty certain that the Helios thing was a :V: oversight that just never mattered during the campaign and thus wasn't caught in testing.

[Aesaar]

It was probably meant to be Harpoon.

[Mars]

That would have solved about 1/3rd of that fighter's major problems.

[NGTM-1R]

Yeah, I'm pretty certain that the Helios thing was a :V: oversight that just never mattered during the campaign and thus wasn't caught in testing.

Maybe, but if it was really meant to be Harpoon then I can't believe the testers didn't notice it couldn't mount the Harpoon.

[Colonol Dekker]

I can see how it would slip through if the testers weren't in-house.

[X3N0-Life-Form]

Besides, you don't have access to the Harpoon early on when you are flying the Myrmidon anyway.

It was probably meant to be Harpoon.

Makes sense.
*has flashbacks of his text editor's auto-completion messing with him*

[NGTM-1R]

Besides, you don't have access to the Harpoon early on when you are flying the Myrmidon anyway.

It was probably meant to be Harpoon.

Makes sense.
*has flashbacks of his text editor's auto-completion messing with him*

Not the last time the ship's selected for default fighter, though.

[Firesteel]

I enjoy the Erinyes because 8 Kaisers will toast just about anything instantly and its turning isn't that bad. Even if you have 8 Kaisers, if you pick your shots, you will have plenty of energy up to medium difficulty.

[Kestrellius]

You know come to think of it, the Myrm is prolly the best all-around craft in the game, simply because it's a fighter that can still finish off capital ships if you just carry a single Helios. (Well, unless we consider that apparently the EMP bomb can destroy Huge targets, but that's not exactly on the same scale.) I mean sure it's kind of crap, but it's certainly no worse than say the Herc II. Plus it has a four-gun bank. That's always a plus.

[Vrets]

The Myrm was never supposed to carry the Helios, though.

Contrarywise, the Bakha was meant to carry the Helios, but some intern assigned it as a primary weapon instead of a secondary.

What's with Volition and the Helios, anyway? It's the HELIOS CURSE.

[Kestrellius]

Clearly there was meant to be a gun that fired Helioii.

The alternate theory on the Myrmidon is that it was originally meant to be a bomber of some kind, but was changed to a fighter at the last minute or the tables were copied incorrectly.

...I got that from the wiki connected to this site, though, so I imagine you all know that.

[Kolgena]

+1 perseus with double PromS. Ditto for the AI wingmen. The range and speed of the fighter gives you pretty insane coverage against fighter/bomber targets warping in all over the place, which ends up being how many missions are. AI also tend to survive longest in perseus. They get shredded pretty fast in Erinyes but you can spam C31 and watch everything die as if it was ~+k'd

Erinyes is good, and I definitely pick it over the perseus on many missions, but almost as an exercise to micro the **** out of the ETS and weapon<->shield energy transfer system (Never put any energy into shield recharge and manage shields exclusively by dumping weapon energy into them. Put extra ETS energy into shields and engine so you're not dead or shooting dry every 5 seconds)

Earlier someone mentioned the kentauri. Ditto to that too. Aside from being gigantic (and inability to mount scalpels on the 2 gun primary slot even though they can go on the 4 gun slot--come on people), it's everything anyone could wish for.

Only ever play on insane.

[AdmiralRalwood]

Contrarywise, the Bakha was meant to carry the Helios, but some intern assigned it as a primary weapon instead of a secondary.

Was meant to and does; the code allows the Bakha to carry the Helios because it's a valid weapon (it doesn't care that it was only made valid in the primary list instead of the secondary list).

[Megawolf492]

Was meant to and does; the code allows the Bakha to carry the Helios because it's a valid weapon (it doesn't care that it was only made valid in the primary list instead of the secondary list).

So does that mean that in FRED I can put primaries in secondary slots (and visa versa) and it will still work? As in, can I have 4 primaries (two in secondary slots) and they would all drain my weapons energy? Or would those in the secondary slots have a "missile count"? It would be cool to put bombs in the primaries and shoot a bunch of them like they were primaries...

[General Battuta]

Nope.