[Thaeris]

Pretty straight forward with little possibility of heated political/socially-related deviations - What's your favorite roll in FreeSpace to perform?

Personally, my all time favorite role has to be Heavy Assault/Tactical Bombing (think Athena/Zeus for the latter). There's nothing better than ripping cruisers apart! 

[Dragon]

I also like to have a lot of firepower and possiblity to carry torpedoes, while still retaining abillity to dogfight.

[The E]

Heavy Assault. I could tell you why, but that would be spoilery.

[Rodo]

I like bombers, somehow... I feel safer when close to a very masive object while in space

[-Norbert-]

I like the suicide kings way of life.
Mostly intercepting bombers and fighters with the occasional surgical anti-subsystem strike.

I guess that falles under recon/tactical, right?

[headdie]

I always seem to be chasing bombers down or taking out the beam cannons on cruisers, also i like fast nimble craft, assault and bombers just feel like I'm dragging along waiting to get ripped to pieces by something

edit:

I went intercept

[IronBeer]

Light bomber. Among many to come, I am sure, I really enjoy being a threat to anything- having the capability to fend off fighters AND kill a proper capital ship with some determination and grit is killer.

[Klaustrophobia]

heavy bomber.  i feel insanely powerful ripping apart destroyers by unloading 3 banks of bombs at it.  second choice would be space superiority, the all-powerful badass, or "superjuggernaught in a figher" as i saw it put somewhere else.

[Enkidu]

Space Superiority for me, the Myrmidon is definitely my favorite fighter in the game. If given a choice I'd also go with an SOC operative just because I really enjoy suicide missions (as long as they're just in a game that is  )

[0rph3u5]

Heavy Assault - cause I rather choose not to dodge but I just sometimes might want to  

[QuantumDelta]

Space Superiority for me, the Myrmidon is definitely my favorite fighter in the game. If given a choice I'd also go with an SOC operative just because I really enjoy suicide missions (as long as they're just in a game that is  )

I approve.

[Spoon]

Heavy bomber for me. I like taking down the big targets more then a dozend of fighters

[Scotty]

Space superiority, no doubt.  That way, I don't get closer than I need to to the giant slashing beams of death.

[Colonol Dekker]

Other:
 
Having been through a few real life warzones myself i'm happy to relegate myself to that quaint little recruitment office on gammal draconis 4  just enticing teens in with sweets them shipping them off to boot for a world of pain. I've done my part and have four scars plus surgery to prove it.
 
Let generation x do their part.
 
 
Bitterness. . . . . . Absolute bitterness.
 
 
 
 
 
That or EOD. Which is my trade.

[QuantumDelta]

End of Days? ;P
If it wasn't obvious before, space superiority, because I am teh multi-role, though I hate bombing which means staying on the SS side of Heavy Assault lets me take things that do everything (hi eri).

[el_magnifico]

Heavy assault/light bomber.

I fell in love with the Herc I since the very second I fired in Tenderizer. I like the Hercs, the Ares, the Athena and the Zeus (yes, especially the Zeus).
But I don't like the Artemis, because of it's firing points and low weapon energy.

[Pred the Penguin]

Space Superiority...

Nothing better than being maneuverable and owning everyone that warps in.

[ChronoReverse]

Heavy assault.  Even in space superiority, I often use a Myrmidon (which is somewhat sluggish).

Nothing like blowing away fat targets =)

[Mongoose]

I honestly like heavy bombing and heavy assault a great deal too, but nothing gets my adrenaline pumping nearly so much as a good interception mission.  Something like BP's (in)famous "Forced Entry" is pretty much the epitome of fast-paced insanity.  Sit still for a few seconds, and you'll find yourself looking at a failed mission.

[Herra Tohtori]

It's a tough choice between space superiority and interception roles.

I dislike being in bombers, I feel like I'm suffocated by their lack of movement both in linear and angular dimensions. It's the same in IL-2, I really dislike being a bus driver.

Assault missions are okay too, but in the end I'd say I prefer interception role over others. A lot of it depends on mission design, though. If I have good space superiority support, then intercepting is very fun. If there are hordes of bomber wings jumping in at different sides of battlefield simultaneously while I have a wing of Dragons up my tailpipe, it's not so enjoyable as you just know this is going to go horribly wrong in a very short time.

Space superiority missions are fun when all you need to do is clear the space of fighters and keep it clear for interceptors or bombers to do their work. If you end up having to do interception in space superiority fighter, it absolutely blows because you lack the response time that speedy little interceptors give you (this is why Perseus is worse interceptor than Valkyrie, but better overall ship as it can do both space superiority and interception decently enough for most situations).

Paradoxally the Herc 2 is actually a fairly nice intercept platform but mainly because of it's ability to mount more Trebuchet missiles than a Perseus.