[General Battuta]

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.

The Terran Mara...lacks primary firepower? Do explicate!

The Pegasus is plenty stealthy if it's SEXPed to be stealthy in the mission.

[Rodo]

The Terran Mara...lacks primary firepower? Do explicate!

The Pegasus is plenty stealthy if it's SEXPed to be stealthy in the mission.

with sexps every ship can be stealthy IIRC, on a normal mission there would be no real advantage on using the ship itself if the stealthiness was not active and depending on the fredder to remember activating that is somewhat discouraging, the ship should have an in game key bind to activate the stealthiness , taking that into consideration the only advantage of the ship is the maneuverability.

[Enigmatic Entity]

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.

The Terran Mara...lacks primary firepower? Do explicate!

The Pegasus is plenty stealthy if it's SEXPed to be stealthy in the mission.

You can't hold down the primary fire button on normal energy levels for as long as I'd like with Kaysers, and anything less than four Kaysers is weak. I suppose it makes up with the ability to launch harpoon after harpoon at your enem(y/ies).

Being stealthy doesn't protect you in a flak battle, especially when you're turning to chase that Loki that has 49.8 flak turrets firing at it...

[Krelus]

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.

The Terran Mara...lacks primary firepower? Do explicate!

The Pegasus is plenty stealthy if it's SEXPed to be stealthy in the mission.

You can't hold down the primary fire button on normal energy levels for as long as I'd like with Kaysers, and anything less than four Kaysers is weak. I suppose it makes up with the ability to launch harpoon after harpoon at your enem(y/ies).

Being stealthy doesn't protect you in a flak battle, especially when you're turning to chase that Loki that has 49.8 flak turrets firing at it...

Dude, never underestimate a quad bank. Even a quad-Subach bank can rip most things to shreds right quick, and the bonus is you can take some power out of weapons without any downside. I used to play on Very Easy so I thought the Kayser was a god-weapon, but man, that thing is a pain in the ass to use on Medium or higher.

And by the way, there is a solution to that Pegasus problem: Don't fly into a flak cloud.

[Commander Zane]

The Erinyes with eight Kaysers on Medium is interesting especially with Fastmod tables, I did notice however that the shield -> energy transfer doesn't work for beans but it does make weapon recharge faster, even with all allocation taken out of weapon recharge, hitting the S->E key once will suddenly make weapons recharge as if you had energy put into gun recharge.

And there is no solution to the Pegasus problem when Fastmod variables make flak and beams have ludicrous ranges.

[DeepSpace9er]

Erinyes - Kayser in the first slot, Maxim in the second. The way I roll is using the Kayser with turret points on single select to kill fighters. Using the 2 turret point maxim as an anti-cruiser/anti-subsystem long range weapon. Using dual Kayser's drains your power too quickly so even if I didnt use the maxim, i would still only go with 1 kayser on the first slot.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

The Pegasus is plenty stealthy if it's SEXPed to be stealthy in the mission.

Alternatively, don't go near a Sathanas.

[colecampbell666]

Erinyes - Kayser in the first slot, Maxim in the second. The way I roll is using the Kayser with turret points on single select to kill fighters. Using the 2 turret point maxim as an anti-cruiser/anti-subsystem long range weapon. Using dual Kayser's drains your power too quickly so even if I didnt use the maxim, i would still only go with 1 kayser on the first slot.

Think you mean Ares.

[Commander Zane]

[Imposible Uncorrect]

Actually, I can see my fav. ship is also the fav. ship ofmany other members! Actually I like the GTF Perseus because the Perseus is one of the best Allrounders, I ever got to play in this game. 

[colecampbell666]

The Erinyes has 4+4 gunpoints, the Ares (a big brown Herc II) has 4+2.

[Commander Zane]

I know that...what I'm not getting is that statement, both ships can house Kaysers and Maxims, and I'd rather go for the ship that fires more rounds per burst.

[colecampbell666]

Erinyes - Kayser in the first slot, Maxim in the second. The way I roll is using the Kayser with turret points on single select to kill fighters. Using the 2 turret point maxim as an anti-cruiser/anti-subsystem long range weapon. Using dual Kayser's drains your power too quickly so even if I didnt use the maxim, i would still only go with 1 kayser on the first slot.

Sounded like it. NVM.

[Scotty]

I go with one Kayser and one Maxim, especially on escort missions.  With the Kayser, you take out fighters really fast, and the maxims are absolutely flippin' wonderful bomb destroyers, as well as knocking off the lock times on bombers.  Honestly, being an effective escort from 2500 meters? 

[colecampbell666]

Playing on medium or higher I'd rather an HL-7 variant than a Kayser. Especially on the later missions with ships with 4+2 or 4+4 mounts. Couple it with a Maxim, Trebs and Tornadoes, you can't stop me.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

One of the nice things about the Erinyes is that, with eight guns, even the Maxim can do serious damage to shields. I've been doing that quite recently while flying a Sekhmet.

[Rodo]

I still miss the loki option... how much do you think it would get??

+1 over here!

[Imposible Uncorrect]

I would vote for it! But I think it won't get so much votes than the Perseus or the Erynes.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Guys. What do you like about it? It carries less missiles than a stealth fighter and it hardly has any armour. The only good things that come to my mind are its speed (but a Perseus is faster) and its HTL-ization.

[Rodo]

well it's small ,fast and has very good maneuverability AND it's really good looking.