[Mars]

Spurred by curiosity (and boredom) I've recently taken to wondering about bombers and what people thought of them. My personal favorite asthetically is the Medusa, and practically... the Medusa  . What are people's thoughts? (The Myrmidon doesn't count  )

[Blue Lion]

Ursa, it's the second greatest ship ever.

[StratComm]

Only because it's got a Keyser turret.  I like the Medusa because it's not impossible to dogfight with, carries a fair assortment of heavy ordinance, and actually has three full banks of secondaries.  And because HTL-izing it was fun

[CP5670]

The Sekhmet is easily the best in terms of effectiveness, although it looks butt ugly. I think I like the look of the Ursa the best, although if you consider Shivan bombers too, the Nephilim looks pretty cool as well.

[Charismatic]

Ursa, it's the second greatest ship ever.

And according to you, the greatest would be?

[Blue Lion]

Perseus

[nunix]

I love all bombers; have since WC2 (Broadsword, baby!). Bombing runs are probably my favourite mission type, and I was always disappointed the Boerner..arens..Boeings didn't get more use. I also really wish there was some more variety in single-mission releases; anyone want to work on some bombing runs? ;D Starting to FRED a bit meself, but about to move overseas so my scripting time is kinda limited. =p

[FireCrack]

Ursa, fresh vasudan soup...

[Jopi]

Ugh, bombers...
Personally, I hate those "Strike bombers" or fighter bombers. When attacking a destroyer, you really learn to appreciate strong shielding with all the flak and beams flying around you. One of the nastiest ships to fight is the Seraphim with its turret. I once had six of those gunning for me! It was pretty hard to do any damage as whenever I was shooting one, five were blasting me from the rear.

[Mars]

Yeah, the only issue with the Ursa is that it is huge, four times longer then a Loki, making it a very slow, very blocky, very easy to hit target. If Freespace 1 the turret on the Ursa was much less useful with a Banshee, in FS2 the Kayser can actually destroy things; this is also the downfal of the Medusa, the Avenger turret was okay if Freespace 1, but the Prometheus R in Freespace 2 really has no use, should have been a HL-7

[Polpolion]

The Bonegrageds (or however its spelled) is pretty good. Great bomb capacity. It'd be better if it had a turret (turrets are cool).

[Black Wolf]

Sekhmet. No question.

[CaptJosh]

It's spelled "Boanerges"

[bfobar]

Aesthetically, I am an HTL Medusa fan.
In combat, I'll often take the Ursa because:
I get 3 equally sized bomb payloads. (Not as big as the boa, but I like the symmetry for some reason.)
I get a turret. Every little bit helps.
I get 5 gun banks. In fs2 I'll throw a maxim on the side guns if I can and use those 3 for strafing.
I get retarded shields and armor.

I especially like giving ursas to my wingmen. A pack of Ursas with cluster missles ordered to defend me remind me of b-17s in box formation. Very nasty. They tend to roll right though the clouds of dragon fighters in the last mission of fs1 better than any fighter escort.

[Mefustae]

What we really need is an actual B17-like bomber for FS2. As in, somewhat larger than even the Ursa, upwards of 6 turrets, with a massive payload, and the ability to fire 4 torpedoes at once.

[Trivial Psychic]

What we really need is an actual B17-like bomber for FS2. As in, somewhat larger than even the Ursa, upwards of 6 turrets, with a massive payload, and the ability to fire 4 torpedoes at once.

The SMB Vanir bomber for BWO is a massive bomber with 6 turrets and has 8 gunpoints.


As for 4-shot torpedoes, you'd need a separate weapon with a swarm of 2, so that 4 would fire in dual-fire mode.

[Mars]

Isn't that thing supposed to be nearly the size of a small cruiser?

[StratComm]

If its turrets are supposed to be the size of an Ursa's, then it's at least the size of a small cruiser.  Packs more punch than an FS1 fenris too.

[nunix]

As for 4-shot torpedoes, you'd need a separate weapon with a swarm of 2, so that 4 would fire in dual-fire mode.

Wh.
I.
Wh.

Who the hell needs beams on fighters?! TORPEDO-SWARM PLEASE!

[aldo_14]

What we really need is an actual B17-like bomber for FS2. As in, somewhat larger than even the Ursa, upwards of 6 turrets, with a massive payload, and the ability to fire 4 torpedoes at once.

I made one back in the Reci days, albeit with only 2 turrets (barring the missile turrets, which were to be controlled by some FRED-ed co-pilot), but it's not much fun to have something that size unless you make it totally unrealistically fast/agile.