[IronBeer]

Still no love for either of the Vasudan cruisers, I see.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Well, if you took my point of view:

GTVA Colossus - Too big
GTD Hecate - Terrible weapons placement
GTD Orion - Useless when defending
GTCv Deimos - Too big
GTC Aeolus - Terrible firepower but excellent fighter-bomber deterrent
GTC Leviathan - Decent, but terrible beam weaponry
GTC Fenris - Terrible defences and poor firepower
GVD Hatshepsut - Weak underside
GVD Typhon - Looks like trash and terrible firepower
GVCv Sobek - Weak underside
GVC Mentu - Terrible defences
GVC Aten - Terrible firepower and even worse defences
GTD Hades - Subsystem strength is rubbish

[Rhymes]

Pessimist...

[jkalltheway]

Well, if you took my point of view:
GVD Typhon - Looks like trash and terrible firepower

Looks terrible! Compared to what? It had the most memorable look to me. The Hateshput looked ridiculous. It was a mix between a giraffe and a battle axe. The Colossus was a giant baseball bat. The Hecate was just a damn mess, it had odds and ends sticking out everywhere. The orion was a Glorified Box. The Deimos reminded me of the Assault Rifle from Halo. Not necessarily a bad thing. But its so... uninspired i guess? The Sobek's not bad but its not like the Typhon. The Fenris and Leviathan look silly with the radar dish on top. The mentu and aten are also not bad. Hades: See Colossus. The Aeolus reminds me of the DOOP, which gets it some points. But i still prefer the Typhon. As for its firepower... well back in FS1 it was supposedly bad ass. :[ Cut it some slack its old!

[IronBeer]

Well, if you took my point of view:

GTVA Colossus - Too big
GTD Hecate - Terrible weapons placement
GTD Orion - Useless when defending
GTCv Deimos - Too big
GTC Aeolus - Terrible firepower but excellent fighter-bomber deterrent
GTC Leviathan - Decent, but terrible beam weaponry
GTC Fenris - Terrible defences and poor firepower
GVD Hatshepsut - Weak underside
GVD Typhon - Looks like trash and terrible firepower
GVCv Sobek - Weak underside
GVC Mentu - Terrible defences
GVC Aten - Terrible firepower and even worse defences
GTD Hades - Subsystem strength is rubbish

So... only the Shivans have decent capital ships, then?

[Mongoose]

...and how exactly is the Deimos "too big"?

[Androgeos Exeunt]

It just has a huge target profile. It looks like a huge hunk of styled metal, which means that it is more prone to taking more damage.

[Liberator]

I voted Sobek, as has been said before, it's weak underneath, but other than that, it's a tough nut.

[Pred the Penguin]

The Deimos does have a rather large target profile, but it makes up with good firepower.

I voted Sobek, as has been said before, it's weak underneath, but other than that, it's a tough nut.

You can always roll your ship. ^_^

[Black Wolf]

To captain, I'd take a Hecate. But since I'd actually deploy my fighters and bombers, I'd survive longer than any Destroyer captain in te history of Freespace, so I'd rapidly get promoted to a desk job somewhere

[Commander Zane]

[Vrets]

Someone voted Fenris.

In that case, my Fenris lobbying campaign was 100% more effective than I anticipated.

Soon all GTVA cruisers will be phased out and replaced with Fenrises. Han-Ronald will live again.

[Aardwolf]

Mentu is still at 0.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

To captain, I'd take a Hecate. But since I'd actually deploy my fighters and bombers, I'd survive longer than any Destroyer captain in te history of Freespace, so I'd rapidly get promoted to a desk job somewhere

I thought ship captains have a nice desk with a window seat in their office on their warship.

[Commander Zane]

Mentu is still at 0.

And yet the ATEN has one...

[Mongoose]

Hey, an Aten was no picnic in an unshielded Valkyrie.  Those big yellow blobs hurt.

[Polpolion]

Yeah, you guys can enjoy your Orions while the Aeolus provide them with anti-bomber cover to prevent them from dying.

[Snail]

Hey, an Aten was no picnic in an unshielded Valkyrie.  Those big yellow blobs hurt.

Plus, they have Avengers which are absolutely deadly to unshielded ships.

[colecampbell666]

(and you can chew them with Maxims alone - in fact, in the missions in the BWO demo with the hostages, I took one of the Sobeks down to like 16% HP by pounding it with Maxims, out of range of the 'kill hostages' trigger.)

you should be ashamed! using a fredder's oversight like that .... 

Does the Maxim have a big or huge flag on it?

[Commander Zane]

You don't need those flags to put a Corvette to dangerously low hull levels.