[Mars]

A certain amount of HL-7 bashing in the wiki got me curious. What's your favorite standard weapon in the game?

[Jeff Vader]

  So... the ML-16, the Avenger and the Subach/Mekhu are "standard weapons"?

[Mars]

Every other weapon was stated to be special issue.

I guess Prometheus S was standard (looks up) nope.

Prom R was, but I doubt anyone would vote for it, I'll put it up anyway

[Kie99]

Don't bother, the Subach is superior to it at everything.

[Gamma_Draconis]

The Avenger because it served me so well.

[lenard27]

Double Subach's, especially with the Herc II, can wreck a fighter. Plus, you can divert most of your weapon energy to shields and engines.

And the ML-16 is useless once shields come into play.

[Colonol Dekker]

I like the banshee from FreeSpace1 and the mekhu hl7 from it's younger brother.
It changes colour

[Zoltan]

I voted for the Avenger. Please, please no one vote for the ML-16...

[blowfish]

You forgot the Mekhu...

[Mars]

HL-7 is an all encompassing term

[blowfish]

Oh...

[Colonol Dekker]

I like the Mekhu's faster refire rate over the Terran version actually

[blowfish]

Yes, and the fact that it does more sustained damage (linked to fire rate) and has slightly more range (not really significantly more though).

[MechMantis]

I voted for the Avenger. Please, please no one vote for the ML-16...

But MAN was it fun to blow up poor Anubises, pre shields.


Pair it with a shield-damaging weapon and it was pretty useful. Vote'd for.

[Solatar]

...or use two shield damaging weapons.

[Ryan]

HL-7 on an erinyes... erenyes... the fighter that looks like a starfury.

Pwnage.

[Droid803]

I like the HL-7 (preferable Mekhu over Subach), I'll take it over any weapon, basically, since I can't aim for ****.

[Solatar]

I picked the Avenger because (for the time period) it packed a little bit more of a punch than the HL-7 (although I think the stats are very similiar). Seemed more of an assault weapon and less of a spray and pray thing. Of course by FS2 the Avenger is nothing special.

...Prometheus all the way... I know it's "special issue" but it would seem from the way it's "deployed' as the favorite weapon, etc. that the Prometheus would be the standard issue weapon.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Picked the Avenger by accident...I wanted to vote for the Subach/Mekhu HL-7. Nevertheless, the Avenger still is a good weapon. I think I used it until the original Prometheus came out.

I like the HL-7 cannons because my aim is terrible. They also look pretty nice.

[asyikarea51]

Mekhu HL-7 even though I'm not too fond of the Vasudans. A while ago I would've picked the Prometheus R over the rest, until I looked at how much damage it actually did, and reality set in.

Faster refire rate means more hits against fast critters like Dragons or Pegasus fighters... Transcend's ending made me think again and again about the "importance" of ROF, but then again the slow nature of the Hercules was partially to blame...