[Mars]

I've recently come to consider many of the less spectacular ships in the Freespace games, including the freighters. In your opionions what freighter is the Best, either aesthetically, gross tonnage, armament-wise, you name it.

My personal favorite is the Poseiden, it's better armed than the Satis, has a smaller target profile than just about any other freighter (besides the Bast) while preserving decent armor: if only the TC and TSC cargo units were tougher.

[Flipside]

I like the Triton, big, ugly, functional. Possibly a little too weak for a combat-freighter, but pretty much perfect in most other respects.

[Porthos]

I, too, like the Poseidon. Great gunboat capabilities. I see it as more of a wartime freighter then most of the others. Although, some of the older PVFr's with their rapid fire turret were quite anoying as well.

[Thor]

i miss the big ole Chronos.  was a nice simple design, logical and self contained.  The Satis is also a classic when it come to being in a firefight.  almost better to have around then a mentu

[Mars]

The Satis's 5 Terran Turrets (which do about as much damage as Prometheus R's) do aproximently the same damage as the 4 Subach turrets on the Poseiden, and the Subachs move much faster, and are therefore more accurate, the Satis does have many more hitpoints however.

[S-99]

Yeah i'd have to go with the satis too.
It'd be something i'd pilot personally.
The satis would be awesome to have, it just makes an awesome gunboat.
And in some mods is even tactically deployed as such by pirates.
I wonder if you could stowe a small fighter like the valkyrie or pegasus inside of it?
That'd be awesome back up.
I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be able to be shielded either, but if to do so, you'd probably need something crazy like 3 shield generators on board.
Which brings me to my next idea of shielding for capships(for later)
Though, since the poseidon is more fighter sized, why not give it a shield system?
Technically since the docked cargo would increase the ship's size, just have the shield system activate after it's undocked with cargo.
Possibly a reason why none of the other fighter sized ships have no shielding is because it's expensive, and that may be the only reason why gtva fighters have them only(gtva got mo money).
Just give the poseidon faster speed with a shield system, and you got something pirates would make raids with
The poseidon would also probably be a pretty sweet scrap-heap fighter too if you chopped off it's docking legs.
If you did that it'd really say modified (into) rebel fighter all over it
The poseidon really is a sweet ass ship, also because i obviously believe it has a ton of extra potential in it

[Goober5000]

In your opionions what freighter is the Best

Freudian slip?

And yet...

My personal favorite is the Poseiden

If, on the other hand, you meant to ask which freighter was the Bast, that'd be this:

[Mars]

Just had freighters on the mind, and noticed the Bes in best, that's all. The Bast is the smallest freighter in either game, slightly smaller (I belive) than the Medusa. (I keep wanting to write the names of ships like: [[GTB Medusa|Medusa]] from the wiki)

[Porthos]

I always thought the Bast looked more like a terran freighter then a Vasudan.

[StratComm]

i miss the big ole Chronos.  was a nice simple design, logical and self contained.  The Satis is also a classic when it come to being in a firefight.  almost better to have around then a mentu

Logical?  You call the Chronos logical?  It's cockpit and engines are held together by a plank. 

I too always thought the bast was more Terran than Vasudan, particularly because the cockpit on it and on the Chronos are almost identical.

[Singh]

Prefer the good 'ol satis myself. She's got a nice profile and has the looks of a small gunship as opposed to a freighter. Like the Posi, it can defend itself just nicely, too. Replace all it's regular turrets with flak and it makes a nice flak gunship for any mod/campaign as well

[S-99]

BTW, that's first time i've ever seen the vasudan bast freighter.
Did they ever have it in game?

[StratComm]

It supposedly appears in one mission in FS1.  Though to be honest, I'm not sure the player usually gets near them before the AI fighters wipe it out; it's a little thin-skinned at best.

[Trivial Psychic]

It's in the 3rd FS1 mission, where you're attacking a Vasudan cargo depot where Stolen Weapon Prototypes are suspected to be stored, (actually the Avenger cannon) which get stolen again by McCarthy.  There are a Bast and an unarmed Ma'at there as well.  If you mount a bank of disruptors (to disable them before they escape) and manage your wingmen well, you can get the kills for both freighters.  The Bast is also present in BR's "Shrouding the Light".

[Solatar]

For the fs1 era, I love the Chronos. The freighter itself has the hitpoints of a Fenris, pretty good speed, and can carry a large cargo container. Not as heavily armed as the Poseidon, but it can knock out quite a few asteroids by itself if you're busy with other fighters.

[Mars]

The Chronos has 2000 more hitpoints than the Fenris, oddly enough. The Fenris has more firepower however, even though its 8 laser turrets are armed with the weak Terran Turrets (aproximently equivalent to Prometheus R).