[Droid803]

Apollo (Myrmidon)
Values taken from FSPORT.

$Max Velocity: 0.0, 0.0, 60.0  (75.0)
$Rotation time: 3.2, 3.2, 6.0 (4.0, 3.7, 5)
$SBank Capacity: ( 40, 40 ) [ 20, 20, 40 ]
$Shields: 350  (390)
$Power Output: 2.0 (2.4)
$Max Oclk Speed: 82.0 (95.0)
$Max Weapon Eng: 100.0  (150.0)
$Hitpoints: 240 ( 290 )
$Afterburner: YES
   +Aburn Max Vel: 0.0, 0.0, 140.0 (135.0)
   +Aburn For accel: 0.7 (0.8)
   +Aburn Fuel: 300.0 (320.0)
   +Aburn Burn Rate: 50.0 (60.0)
   +Aburn Rec Rate: 25.0 (25.0)
$Countermeasures: 25 (36)

I'd say they're pretty even.
The Myrm is faster normally, but the Apollo burns faster. The apollo uses less fuel, but also holds less fuel. They have the same secondary capacity, but the Apollo has less weapons energy.
The Apollo handles better (expect in that last value), but has slightly weaker in terms of shield and hull strength (by 40 points each).

[peterv]

Visually the Apollo is much sexier. What else matters in single player, really?

Can you define that please?

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Apollo (Myrmidon)
Values taken from FSPORT.

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I'd say they're pretty even.
The Myrm is faster normally, but the Apollo burns faster. The Apollo uses less fuel, but also holds less fuel. They have the same secondary capacity, but the Apollo has less weapons energy.
The Apollo handles better (expect in that last value), but has slightly weaker in terms of shield and hull strength (by 40 points each).

The Myrm has a quad gun bank, a decisive advantage IMHO.

[Mars]

The Myrmidon has significant advantages in primary firepower, and are entirely comparable in every other way.

The Myrmidon does have a larger target profile.

[Stormkeeper]

he Myrm has a quad gun bank, a decisive advantage IMHO.

The Eyrines has two, and a small rear target profile. But come at it from the side, and its as long as a limousine.

[Mars]

he Myrm has a quad gun bank, a decisive advantage IMHO.

The Eyrines has two, and a small rear target profile. But come at it from the side, and its as long as a limousine.

This is a comparison to the Apollo

[bfobar]

Visually the Apollo is much sexier. What else matters in single player, really?

Can you define that please?

I want to rub the HTL Apollo's leg and talk it into coming back to my hotel room?

[peterv]

 

[Stormkeeper]

This is a comparison to the Apollo

Ah, my bad. The Apollo is more manuevuerable tho, compared to the Myrmy.

[Akalabeth Angel]

The Valk had an absolutely wonderfully long afterburn time...and an excellent top burn speed of 160m/s. Pity the AI phails using it...and drop like flies. I tried to like the Apollo, I really did, but it kept falling apart faster than a Valk (when I pilot it)...so I ended up taking the Valk whenever a could for FSPort. If not, then a Medusa. I actually managed to play intercept in one of those (Doomsday)...and another time while playing some mission in S:AH. I tried to avoid the Herc due to its shield mesh errors (only present in HTL).

Yeah, I probably just suck.

       The Valk sucks, take a few hits on the nose and your comm system goes down in seconds. Drove me nuts everytime I flew the bloody thing. I'd take an Athena any time I could . . . or something better than a Valk anyway.

[Iranon]

The mere fact that we are comparing the Myrmidon against a thoroughly obsolete fighter is worrying. The advantages the Apollo has over the Perseus (afterburner, yaw&pitch rate) are so small they are barely perceptible and offset several times over by the Perseus' higher speed alone, never mind the small benefits.

The Myrmidon is a multi-role craft; the Ulysses is still Terran's only craft that deserves its designation of space superiority fighter (although the Loki is also one in all but name).

[Rodo]

ohh lovely lovely loki ^^

[Androgeos Exeunt]

The Loki has a very nice front. You don't see that on any other GTVA fighter.

[Snail]

The Loki has a very nice front. You don't see that on any other GTVA fighter.

What, the chompers? I never liked that, made it seem like a mercenary fighter.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

It's unique.

The Ares reminds me of a Herc II with its outer armour removed and some fins attached to the sides of each engine.

[Snail]

The Ares reminds me of a Herc II with its outer armour removed and some fins attached to the sides of each engine.

And is that a bad thing?

[Androgeos Exeunt]

The Ares reminds me of a Herc II with its outer armour removed and some fins attached to the sides of each engine.

And is that a bad thing?

Aesthetic-wise, yes. It's a nice ship to fly, but it's not very pretty.

[Snail]

Aesthetic-wise, yes. It's a nice ship to fly, but it's not very pretty.

I always thought it looked good... Guess I must be the only one.

[Stormkeeper]

I always thought it looked good... Guess I must be the only one.

I just think it needs a better color scheme than maroon/rust red.

[Rodo]

the ares is the real fighting peacock (fs2 version of course) XD