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Whats your weapon of choice, pilot ?

GTF Hercules
16 (6.3%)
GTF Herecules MK II
16 (6.3%)
GTF Erinyes
77 (30.3%)
GTF Perseus
61 (24%)
GTF Pegasus
19 (7.5%)
GTF Myrmidon
14 (5.5%)
GTF Ares
43 (16.9%)
GTF Ulysses
8 (3.1%)

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Offline Androgeos Exeunt

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
I'm that kind of person who likes to do long-range missile-lobbing before I get too close and have to switch to primaries. For this reason, I like using ships with large secondary banks. This is why I prefer the Ares, Mara, Tauret, Ursa, Herc 2 and Seth above other flyable ships.
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Re: Favorite terran fighter
My preference i find is that for disarming i do long range if i have the missiles for it. Most of my kills are balanced between primaries and secondaries. I don't use tempests a lot, but i find that when i have them, the way i handle my primaries is a lot different.

For fighter craft. I loove the athena. Great tactical (subsystem bomber) bomber. The firing points on it are dead on. You can only equip avengers as the most primary weapon on it. But, the firing points on it make short work of any fighters even though it's just avengers. I always use the avenger. The prometheus doesn't cut it.

Likely so, the artemis is cool, and meant to be a replacement for the athena. But really, the artemis is ****. I can't do **** with the widespread firing points on it besides lob missiles. I don't have any other qualms with the other fighters and bombers. Just the artemise's primaries are horrible. Why not make them similar to the athena and just only be able to equip subachs for it?
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Re: Favorite terran fighter
Enrinyes for firepower, Perseus for style!
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Re: Favorite terran fighter
Has anyone here tried to disarm or disable a small ship using Stilettos?
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Re: Favorite terran fighter
No but I've intercepted Dragons with the Helios numerous times.

 

Offline Rhymes

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
I pick the Pegasus.  It's damn hard to hit, even though it lacks firepower, but one word sums up my reason for picking it.

Transcend.  :nod:
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Re: Favorite terran fighter
NEVER SPEAK OF THAT BASTARD BATTLE AGAIN! :shaking:

 

Offline Rhymes

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
What ARE you talking about?  The final level?
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Offline Commander Zane

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
Yes, I can't stand that fight! More loop-de-loops than you can shake a damn stick at!

 

Offline Rhymes

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
It's still EPIC though.  Besides,
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Re: Favorite terran fighter
Why no Hercules 2?
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Re: Favorite terran fighter
 :wtf:  It's there, but it's misspelled as "Herecules MK II"
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Re: Favorite terran fighter
Terran Mara
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Re: Favorite terran fighter
Here are the reasons why I like certain fighters:

Different paint job, same thrusters - SF Mara, GTF Pegasus
Difficult to kill - SF Mara, GTF Erinyes, GTF Hercules Mark II
Odd shape - SF Mara, GTF Pegasus, GTF Myrmidon
Many gun mounts - GTF Myrmidon, GTF Hercules, GTF Erinyes
Huge secondary banks - GTF Hercules Mark II
Good for aim - SF Mara, GTF Pegasus, GTF Hercules Mark II, GTF Myrmidon, GTF Erinyes
All of the above - GTF Ares

...and here are some reasons why I don't like certain fighters that much:

GTF Perseus - Too slippery and crap payload
GTF Loki - Thin hull and shielding + crap payload
GTF Ulysses - Too slippery, thin hull and shielding + crap payload
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Re: Favorite terran fighter
Transcend... ugh... that sucker is so hard to hit...!!! and stealth among other things...

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Your preference is more to the medium and heavy fighters I guess? Or anything that meets a certain criteria?
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Re: Favorite terran fighter
Has anyone here tried to disarm or disable a small ship using Stilettos?
You mean a fighter? Yea, I've done that. Rammed a Dragon accidentally and my finger slipped and hit my secondaries and I disabled it. Then, this being an extremely rare thing, I proceeded to disable it subsystem by subsystem until it only had hull strength left. I stiletto'd everything else.

Your preference is more to the medium and heavy fighters I guess? Or anything that meets a certain criteria?
Iirc, A.E said that he tends to do secondary kills, so he tends towards stuff with larger secondary payloads. I tend towards stuff with larger primary banks, and better manueverability.
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: Favorite terran fighter

Huge secondary banks - GTF Hercules Mark II


Try the Tauret.

 

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
That thing has the largest secondary bank, doesn't it?
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Re: Favorite terran fighter
That thing has the largest secondary bank, doesn't it?

Nope, it loses out to the Mara.

Try the Tauret.

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
Terran Mara - except that it lacks primary firepower at times.
Ares - Invincible when you can turn around to hit your enemy. Otherwise a hard-to-kill asteroid.
Erinyes - Tempest and Kayser beam.
Hercules MK II - A faster, toned down Ares.

Pegasus - NOT stealthy and gets whipped by flak.
Loki - Did someone mention a painted cardboard box?
Ulysses - ULTRA fast until you run into flak, runs out of missiles to quickly. And it's called a space superiority fighter. It's not.
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