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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%)

Total Members Voted: 252

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Offline Androgeos Exeunt

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
Biased? In what sense? :confused:
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Re: Favorite terran fighter
Wheres the Athena???

It appears to be an FS2 poll, Hunter. :blah:

Lame... I want my athena!  :sigh: It is by far the prettiest bomber in the FS series!! Shame :v: didn't allow it to carry bombs...

 

Offline Snail

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
Lame... I want my athena!  :sigh: It is by far the prettiest bomber in the FS series!! Shame :v: didn't allow it to carry bombs...
It's a piece of crap, really. It can't carry a single good weapon, except the Avenger. So it's useless at bombing... Useless at dogfighting... Useless at everything, really. Except maybe dying.

 

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
Lame... I want my athena!  :sigh: It is by far the prettiest bomber in the FS series!! Shame :v: didn't allow it to carry bombs...
It's a piece of crap, really. It can't carry a single good weapon, except the Avenger. So it's useless at bombing... Useless at dogfighting... Useless at everything, really. Except maybe dying.
It's good for disarming capital ships. And afterwards you'll have at least a chance at dogfighting since the maneuverability is at least a tad bit better than that of a large planet. Which is certainly not the case with, for example, the Ursa.

Biased? In what sense? :confused:
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Offline Snail

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
It's good for disarming capital ships. And afterwards you'll have at least a chance at dogfighting since the maneuverability is at least a tad bit better than that of a large planet. Which is certainly not the case with, for example, the Ursa.
The only reason it's good at disarming things is because it can carry the Stiletto. Other than that, it's useless. It'd probably be useful as like a medium-heavy fighter though

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
 :wtf: What bet??!?!?!12
23:40 < achillion > EveningTea: ass
23:40 < achillion > wait no
23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

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Offline Snail

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
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Offline Iranon

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
Well, despite being discontinued before FS2 started, the Athena was a nominal bomber and so wouldn't belong in this poll.

For all intents and purposes, it has a worthy successor in the Herc II (slightly heavier though).

 

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
I thought the Zeus was supposed to succeed the Athena. :confused:
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Offline Iranon

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
The Zeus is significantly worse in a dogfight than the Athena, but good for other things since it can actually carry real bombs.

The Herc II is the successor to the Athena in terms of mission profile - softening up capital ships (no need for Stilettos in FS2; the Trebuchet does the job just as well while being a lot more flexible), then engaging fighters on close to even terms.

One of these is probably better than the Athena for any given mission, but the old lady was more fun to fly for her speed and excellent gun placements.

 
Re: Favorite terran fighter
     Who cares about what it can carry. The Athena looks sexy. I take it out every mission I can until it becomes clear that winning a given mission with the craft is unattainable. If you're going to get down in flames, at least look good while you're doing it. And you're not going to look good in an Ursa.

  

Offline Snail

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
     Who cares about what it can carry. The Athena looks sexy. I take it out every mission I can until it becomes clear that winning a given mission with the craft is unattainable. If you're going to get down in flames, at least look good while you're doing it. And you're not going to look good in an Ursa.
What about not dying at all?

 
Re: Favorite terran fighter
     Who cares about what it can carry. The Athena looks sexy. I take it out every mission I can until it becomes clear that winning a given mission with the craft is unattainable. If you're going to get down in flames, at least look good while you're doing it. And you're not going to look good in an Ursa.
What about not dying at all?

     Not dying? Blah, living's overrated. You must be one of those guys who's never stayed in Capella to fight when the supernova went off.

 

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
I never wanted to die in the supernova; all I did was suffer ten seconds of target fixation and that cost me everything. :lol:
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Offline eliex

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
     Who cares about what it can carry. The Athena looks sexy. I take it out every mission I can until it becomes clear that winning a given mission with the craft is unattainable. If you're going to get down in flames, at least look good while you're doing it. And you're not going to look good in an Ursa.
What about not dying at all?

     Not dying? Blah, living's overrated. You must be one of those guys who's never stayed in Capella to fight when the supernova went off.

Yep. I'm one of those guys. Who cares about those transports when you can save yourself! If Command wants to complain, they should go out onto the front line follow the "don't-criticise-unless-you-do-it-yourself!"


 

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
Well, not to mention the fact you can't actually save any of the transports, only keep them from blowing up before the supernova comes and does it anyway.

 

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
Well, not to mention the fact you can't actually save any of the transports, only keep them from blowing up before the supernova comes and does it anyway.
I don't see the point in staying behind except to get toasted by what is basically a flashbang. I mean, even if I do stay behind to "help the civilians", they'll get toasted anyway. And who survived to tell Petrach about that anyway? Definitely not the transports.
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Re: Favorite terran fighter
The point is that you try. It's desperate heroism. Sometimes I park my Ares behind a disabled transport and just start pushing towards the node.

Even if you survived, I'm sure you'd suffer massive survivor's guilt. Better to go out clean and tragic, and become a legend.

 

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Well, not to mention the fact you can't actually save any of the transports, only keep them from blowing up before the supernova comes and does it anyway.
I don't see the point in staying behind except to get toasted by what is basically a flashbang. I mean, even if I do stay behind to "help the civilians", they'll get toasted anyway. And who survived to tell Petrach about that anyway? Definitely not the transports.

Those are a cowards words. Give me back your medals, if you have any, and prepare to be settled on a planet in Capella.  :lol:

I never run away in that mission though. Why are people so afraid of it?

Volition should have locked the player's subspace drive until the supernova started and the player got into the node.

 

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Re: Favorite terran fighter
*snip*
How dare you challenge my courage?!?!?! I stayed behind countless times to get flashbanged countless times to attempt to help the civilians!!!!11!!!eleven!!!

Granted on the last run I got bored and started pot-shotting the civilians to make them run faster.
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