[Garfield3d]

Although I'm not too swift with a Perseus and I usually prefer the Herc Mark II, I love the role of interceptor. As tedious as it is sometimes, there's this wonderful rush of running down bombs and racing other fighters to a target.

[Raptor]

For me its:
(1). Heavy attack
(2). Fighter sweep

Out of orginal V craft, I'd take the Hercules MK 1, with 1st gun bank Kasyer or Prom S, 2nd with Maxim, Both missile banks filled with trebs.  I really like diving down on bombers, transports, freighters, cruisers, etc guns blazing.

  I prefer dogfighting with guns, but the Erinyes has too small an energy resverse, and lacks hull armour.  I like tough ships.

For fighter sweeping, Persesus, twin Sulbach, Harpoons and Hornets.

Or a Pegasus with Prom S, Harpoons and Tempests. Paper thin armour, but if they can't see me on scaners, I could be right behind them and they wouldn't I was there, till it was too late....

[Hudzy]

Originally posted by TopAce
Ah! That's another thing. Isn't two guns(one bank) are bit ... effectiveless?

It's about compromise. You sacrafice more powerful shots for more frequent ones, thus increasing your chances of making a hit at all, especially when you don't have time to make accurate precision shots, as is often the case in a heated dogfight. Linked cannons have their place, but if you miss, you wait longer before trying again by which time your target may well have evaded you.

[karajorma]

It all depends on the type of pilot you are then. The aim THEN shoot type or the spray and pray type

Neither type is actually wrong they are just different styles of flying.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by karajorma
It all depends on the type of pilot you are then. The aim THEN shoot type or the spray and pray type

Neither type is actually wrong they are just different styles of flying.

Yeah, but no doubt double bank usage has better firepower and it is for more accurate pilots. The 'shoot like Crazy Johhny' style is I think the style of beginners .... they do not understand the importance of 'aiming'. They rather find Rate of Fire more important.

[EDIT]: I don't want to call any of you beginners, it is just my subjective point of view. Ignore me if you find me wrong about this.

[NecroBob]

feh, why do you need accurate aiming with primaries when you have 72 Harpoons?

if you make good use of them and some spray and pray, at 1x, you can make quick work of any enemy.  or 2x if that's your style
(I personally love seeing the two streak away and slam sideways into a mara trying some fancy footwork)

Bob

my 69th post! LOLOLOLOLOLZZZ!!!!!one

[aldo_14]

Interceptor - preferably in a Perseus (as we're excluding modded ships) with twin banks of Harpoons.

[kasperl]

Bombing, i love bombers, you can take a lot of hits without even having to worry about hull, and your ammo capacity will last 2 or 3 times a fighter. the Sekmeth is my favourite, you can use it as a heavy fighter, or load some helios in em and bomb capships, while being able to turn and get those fighters of your back without escort.

if a good, reasonably mobile bomber is out of the question, give me an interceptor, that way you go to fast to get hit, but if you do get it your gone. i would take the perseus with harpoon, dumbfire and subach.

[Knight Templar]

I like the missions where you get to fly and things go bom. Especially big booms.

[Darkage]

Heavy assault:[/i]
Ship: Herc MK2
Bank1: Subach HL7
Bank2: Prometeus S
MBank1: Harpoons
Mbank2: Tornado's/Hornets


This is my favorite setup, i know the primary banks sound weird but i like to use both my banks and still have a decent RoF. It does ofcourse takes abit longer to destroy a fighter/bomber but so far i always managed to get the job done.

[TopAce]

I though nobody would vote 'bombing'

Try chasing down a Manticore, or Dragon with an Ursa! Five not-so-ideal placed lasers makes the Ursa not the best choice against fighters.

I prefer (fr)agile  fighters, like the Ulysses, or the Perseus.

[Woolie Wool]

Space superiority--kill everyone and everything that is an enemy.

For each role, here are my favorite ships:

Space superiority: The Apollo still kicks ass, and the SF Mara (Terran) with twin Kaysers and Tornadoes is even better
Intercept: I rarely ever do it
Bombing: Ditto, but if I had to, I'd fly a Sekhmet or, if using the Dreadful Shivans mod, a Nahema
Heavy assault: GTF Ares. There is no substitute.

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by TopAce
I though nobody would vote 'bombing'

Try chasing down a Manticore, or Dragon with an Ursa! Five not-so-ideal placed lasers makes the Ursa not the best choice against fighters.

I prefer (fr)agile  fighters, like the Ulysses, or the Perseus.

I don't enjoy flying ships that can get blown to pieces in a few shots (I ALWAYS chose the Herc or Apollo over the Valkyrie; those things are death traps).

[Flaser]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool


I don't enjoy flying ships that can get blown to pieces in a few shots (I ALWAYS chose the Herc or Apollo over the Valkyrie; those things are death traps).

For me choosing the ship is very mission dependant.
I simply try to figure out which ship suits the roles in question the best, then I choose.
Therefore I fly anything from Apollo to Erynes - though the later is almost a cheat in certain situations, so mission designers should remember not to offer it most of the time - it's an elite assault craft anyway.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool


I don't enjoy flying ships that can get blown to pieces in a few shots (I ALWAYS chose the Herc or Apollo over the Valkyrie; those things are death traps).

Not ships blow up things ... those are weapons. In the field of the Erinyes, you have double the firepower than the Perseus with lasers. But don't forget it is easy-to-kill craft, easy-to-hit and has particularly no engines(compared to any other fighters). Flaser is right in a part that Erinyes is something like a 'cheating' fighter. Mostly because the missions to be flown at the 70th Lions require firepower and strength(The Erinyes is not so heavy, I think). Speed has not much importance, bombers come, bombers fire, bombers dead. Of course you would need something to be called 'speed' while escaping from Capella nova.

Since I had been caught by the nova the very first time I was playing FS2, I decided to change the Erinyes in the last two missions. Since then, I use the Perseus in that mission.

[Woolie Wool]

I altered the tables and mission so that I could play Apocalypse in an SF Manticore. Much, much easier.

[Knight Templar]

why don't you just alter the ares's table so it can go 500m/s?

[TopAce]

Why the Ares? Why not the Erinyes. If you are already into the TBL file, it is really not a great stuff to modifiy its warheads from 40,50 to 300,300 for example. Honestly said, I am making a new campaign for FS2, and I use my custom-TBL Ulysses with 30000 shields, and hull, speed of 250, etc. to the test missions. This way I don't have to be afraid from being destroyed, and I can take down everyone easily.

[Knight Templar]

And how do you test for difficulty then?

[tEAbAG]

Intercept in a Valk (in my opinion better than Perseus) was the thing that really addicted me to freespace in the first place.  Its even more fun with the FS2 conversion!