[karajorma]

The Donar. It makes an appearance in MindGames

[vyper]

It's spelled "Boanerges"

I thought it was "Coffin".

[Mars]

I never liked the Boaner(ges), it never seemed to really do anything better than an Ursa, and it completely lacked primary firepower. You've got to wonder why Terran R&D keeps on replacing really good designs (the Orion, Ursa, Medusa) with not so good ones (the Hecate, Boanerges, Artemis) granted there are advantages and disadvatages, but it shouldn't be debatable, the newer ones should be so much better than the older that there is no question which is better.

[StratComm]

The Artemis is a good bomber, but it really should be considered a replacement to the Athena.  It's too light to be a true replacement to the Medusa, and its primary banks are located such that they can be of at least some use in a dogfight.  The Medusa/Ursa actually serve markedly similar roles when you're not using heavy bombs.

[Turey]

I'm more of an interceptor kind of guy, but the medusa is my favorite retail bomber. I'm working on a modded zeus though.

[bfobar]

That Vanir thingy is full on retard sandwiches.

On the B-17 topic, I think an ursa sized bomber with a single smallish bomb bay but a whole load of turrets would make for a cool gunship class of ship. I'd say 8 turrets and 8 primaries, but nothing too strong on the turrets. just prometheus or light blobs. A single rear firing heavy flak cannon or a few interceptor missle turrets would be fun too.

[Kosh]

The Artemis was a light bomber, the Medusa is not. It was never supposed to replace it.

The Sekhmet is easily the best bomber. It is fast, manueverable, has very strong shields and armor, yet it also carries a huge payload.

The Bakha comes in at second place for me.

The Boanerges would be a good bomber if it was actually capable of reaching its target intact (same with the Ursa). It can be quite dangerous simply because of the rediculous number of Helios bombs it could carry, not because of its glaring faults.

[bfobar]

At least the Ursa gets a pea shooter. The problem with the Boanerges is that it usually gets blown up long before it can shoot all of its bombs off. And the fact that it fits an odd number of torpedoes per bay, and the bays are differently sized. In my mind, the perfect heavy bomber has 1-2 turrets, preferrably 2, and three equal sized bays that fit even numbers of torpedoes when they're loaded up. I think thats how the vasudan bombers usually are. Speed really helps too. and 4 guns on the same primary bank. Dangit, why are the vasudan bombers so ugly and so good at the same time?

[aceofspades]

Vasudan bombers=cool.

[NGTM-1R]

The Artemis was a light bomber, the Medusa is not. It was never supposed to replace it.

However as there is no Terran medium bomber then, the Artemis defaults to the role.

[Prophet]

Doesn't anyone remember the Zeus? As far as I know it is at least classified as a bomber. Zeus is the replacement for the Athena. Artemis seems to pretty much be the generic bomber fot the GTA, just like Medusa did. And Boanerges is a failed attempt at creating a heavy bomber.

[Mars]

So in simple terms:
The Athena = Light bomber
The Zeus = Failed attempt at new light bomber
The Medusa  = Medium bomber
The Artemis = New light bomber
The Ursa = Heavy bomber
The Boanerges = Failed attempt at new heavy bomber

[Mefustae]

I thought the Zeus was a good successor to the Athena, but simply not needed, for the days of the Strike Bomber were long gone. Anyway, we don't really see it all that much in action, as most Zeus units defected to the NTF, so we can hardly judge.

[Mars]

My first impression of the Zeus was in the Silent Threat mission Hellfire when a single Shivan blob turret ripped through my virtually undamaged sheilds and disabled my Zeus, with considerable hull damage. 

[Prophet]

The Zeus is kinda useless. But I like it. Flying it is a nice challenge. And I kinda like how it looks too...

[Goober5000]

The Zeus is excellent for what it was designed for: light strike bombing.  Anyone who says otherwise hasn't used it properly.

The Zeus is far from a failure.

[Mars]

Just so we're on the same page, a strike bomber would zip in, destroy a Rakshasha, and zip out, right? Or that cargo / fighter depot in Derelict. I guess it would be useful in those cases.

When I had the Freespace 2 Demo, back in 2001, I text modded the second mission (I forgot the name screw it, and it's one of my personal favorites) so that I could fly in a Zeus bomber, I easily disabled the Moloch, so your right, it is apperently good for something.

[Taristin]

Sekhmet. No question.

[Andreas]

Medusa for me, please! It looks so sexy and it packs a one hell of a punch.

[ZmaN]

The Artemis was a light bomber, the Medusa is not. It was never supposed to replace it.

However as there is no Terran medium bomber then, the Artemis defaults to the role.

maybe the Artemis D.H.?  idk...