[dANGER boy]

I know there are a few missions in the FS2 campaign where the Hecate-class capital ship appears but are there any where it gets involved with another capital ship?  I have never seen one in action.  Supposedly they have crazy firepower...

[Mars]

Usually when you see a Hecate in the main campagin, its getting raped.

[Mobius]

Crazy firepower? Their best weapon is a frontal BGreen, so you would be more excited by an Orion Vs. Orion battle. This happens only in-game, in the Universe the Hecate is supposed to be much better.

[Krelus]

Yeah, that made me cry. The Hecate is such a majestic ship and I felt it was seriously shafted by the vanilla stats. I made a Heavy TerSlash beam to replace its woefully inefficient TerSlashes with. The end result is that, if the Hecate is facing the orion and rotated about 30 degrees to expose its flank so three beams are brought to bear, the Orion is destroyed and the Hecate has about 20-25% left.

[Rodo]

Yeah, that made me cry. The Hecate is such a majestic ship and I felt it was seriously shafted by the vanilla stats. I made a Heavy TerSlash beam to replace its woefully inefficient TerSlashes with. The end result is that, if the Hecate is facing the orion and rotated about 30 degrees to expose its flank so three beams are brought to bear, the Orion is destroyed and the Hecate has about 20-25% left.

you want to see a Hecate in action???

play the recently re released campaigns from the restoration project, those have Hecate's making fuss around ... try with Pandora's box , warzone etc.

and I can tell you.. of all fs destroyers, I like the Hecate so much better now that before, the new normal maps make it look really intimidating from afar.

just check this one out:

[General Battuta]

It's a carrier, not a direct-combat warship. Command wisely pulls it out every time hostile warships show up (witness 'Argonautica' and that mission that introduces the Pegasus.)

[admiral_wolf]

The only time I can think of is when the Phoenicia gets near enough blown apart by the SJ Santhanas.  I can't think of anything else, as due to my current issues with my FSO, I can't progress past the McCarthey mission from FS1 (please don't think of that as a dig guys, I just don't know what I can do about my missing models and cockpits.)

[General Battuta]

Post your log file! (After running a debug build.)

Although maybe you should do that in the support forum.

[Dark Hunter]

The GTD Eternity from Into the Depths of Hell is a pretty badass ship in Chapter 2 and beyond, owing to some custom weapons added.

But that's about the only Hecate I've ever seen in action, and, as I said before, it was modified.

[eliex]

I always think that the vanilla Hecate isn't good at capship battles . . . perhaps more of a giant Aeolus.
It's so sort of ironic that "Hecate" was supposed to be pretty powerful as a goddess but her FS2 destroyer counterpart is quite weak (capship wise.)

[Aardwolf]

Wasn't the Phoenicia a Hecate? (depending on the difficulty and some randomness it either explodes or jumps out with like 5 health)

[eliex]

It's a Hecate. From medium down to easy, it manages to jump out with 1% health IIRC.

[Droid803]

Well, the Aquitaine goes against two Moloch corvettes in the nebula.
The Aquitaine's firepower is so woeful that on all difficulties below medium, it can't even kill the SCv Tiamat before it reaches the node. (The equally pathetic firepower of the Moloch means that the Aquitaine won't die either).
In fact, I've actually gotten screwed by that before, as I disabled the Tiamat, and then the Aquitaine ditches me, and me and my wingmen sit there pounding it for "hours" on 64x time compression and it just sits there at 1%.

[General Battuta]

Bring EMP missiles. I'm told they don't have the right flag, but I somehow used them to kill the Tiamat.

[Droid803]

I just cheated, switched to SSLs, and blew it up after I realized it would never die, but I've gotta try those EMP missiles one day.

[eliex]

I just Stellito the Tiamat's engines then get my wingmen to shoot it dead.
Actually, it's a good time to test out various weapons on a live subject . . . using cheats of course. 

[General Battuta]

I just Stellito the Tiamat's engines then get my wingmen to shoot it dead.
Actually, it's a good time to test out various weapons on a live subject . . . using cheats of course. 

Yeah, the problem is neither you or your wingmen can kill it with the weapons available in that mission.

[Rodo]

Yeah, the problem is neither you or your wingmen can kill it with the weapons available in that mission.

the bigdamage flag comes into rescue right?

still... the Hecate is a wonderfull craft, I bet it would be a little more effective if it had it's main beam weapons less exposed and better distributed around the structure.

[IceFire]

In Warzone I used the Hecate allot because it didn't get much of a shot at things in the retail campaign.  Using completely stock stats the Hecate I found is quite good in forward engagements because it has the two beams up front, and two on the side of the forward structure with decent angle.  Plus with all of the flak and AAA beams it can defend itself well against a bomber assault.

Its actually more defensive than the Orion.  The Orion with its beam upgrades is a battleship...best option is to broadside the enemy.

[Commander Zane]

In fact, I've actually gotten screwed by that before, as I disabled the Tiamat, and then the Aquitaine ditches me, and me and my wingmen sit there pounding it for "hours" on 64x time compression and it just sits there at 1%.

That's probably why, funny things start to happen at that time speed, like damage no longer taking effect on ships.