[Vasudan Commander]

Colossus was an impressive ship, but on reflection, i was a little disappointed with it. The only time you got see it in major battles was in the last mission where it was destroyed. Also they could've designed it a bit better. Looked more like some wierd over-sized rifle then a warship.

[Snail]

Looked more like some wierd over-sized rifle then a warship.

Famously known as the GTVA Supersoaker.

[Dysko]

Looked more like some wierd over-sized rifle then a warship.

I clearly remember my cousin's comment seeing the Colossus cutscene (it was the first time he saw FS2).
"Nice rifle!"
 

[Bob-san]

Sort of odd that the Big-C has firepower concentrated everywhere, not just the front. It would have made more sense to have every main beam up-front... that way it would be a rifle.

[Snail]

The Colossus is an all-round ship, so it has to be able to fight back from all angles, not just the front. The Sathanas and Ravana are strike ships so they have their firepower situated forward.

[Polpolion]

concentrated everywhere

What an oxymoron! Desaturated everywhere.

[Snail]

I love oxymoronses.

[Bob-san]

I love oxymoronses.

That's the point... there is no real concentration of fire from the Big C... unfortunately, the GTVA Super-Soaker has little forward firepower.

[wtf_cl0vvn]

A leaky SuperSoaker?

I've pitted the Colossus against ~30 capships (4-5 destroyers, 10-12 corvettes, 10-15 cruisers) and it comes out on top. Not without a scratch, but against a Terran mix, it has about 50% hull left.
With a shivan mix, it barely makes it out alive, but that still says something.

One thing about the colossus i don't get. I flew past the fighterbay, and it's probably big enough to let one ursa out at a time.

How is that a good idea? No wonder the friggin fighterbay gets disabled in Their Finest Hour.

[Snail]

IMO, FS2 fighterbays are just to 'show' you where the fighterbay is, not an actual... 'picture' (for lack of a better word) of what it is.

[Vasudan Commander]

It seemed to me that in the Colossus' final mission, the shivan warships really poured on the beam cannon fire. I mean, more then normally, they just gunned it. Is there some sort of table script that makes ships do that? not just enable beam weapons, but makes them fire more then normally?

LOL, it'd be cool if a shivan warship just fired its beam cannons so much that it overheated and blew up! 

[GenericCorvette]

Larger Shivan beams can fire very quickly. Making them fire even faster than they should according to the table's fire waits involves a fire-beam SEXP.