[NeonShivan]

Please share your opinions on the most annoying/difficult strikecraft you ever had the unfortunate pleasure to dogfight.

For me: SF Dragon on Balls of Steele AI

Note: This can include strikecraft from fan made mods

[Legate Damar]

A modified Horus called a "Horus-X" in some old FS1 mod. It literally took me over an hour to finally shoot it down.

As a tribute, to this day whenever I make a modified and overpowered version of another ship, I always call it a "(class)-X".

[SpardaSon21]

The Aestivals in that one Ray Mk IV preview mission Spoon made.

[Droid803]

Either the Dragon, or the Ulysses.
The uly is particularly annoying because its a pain in the ass both to fly, and to fly against.

Idk about mods, there are quite a few things which are just plainly and excercise in frustration dogfighting, but also a factor is what you're flying.

[headdie]

in retail dragons are just a massive pita in both games to fly against.

when it comes to flying
FS1, I have a love hate with the Ursa, absolutely love it's damage dealing potential and in most cases its an awesome craft, but it's a bigger bullet magnet than a fenris cruier.

FS2, the myrmidon, the cannon positioning is horrible and it is wiped all over the floor by the Perseus

[NeonShivan]

in retail dragons are just a massive pita in both games to fly against.

when it comes to flying
FS1, I have a love hate with the Ursa, absolutely love it's damage dealing potential and in most cases its an awesome craft, but it's a bigger bullet magnet than a fenris cruier.

FS2, the myrmidon, the cannon positioning is horrible and it is wiped all over the floor by the Perseus

We all due respect but I have to disagree, the cannon placement is decent and the amount of gunpoints it has can make it a deadly son of a *****

[Rodo]

Does it have to be a strikecraft?, if so the Dragon I guess, if not the Mephisto.

[Deepstar]

Yes, the SF Dragon is really annoying, it takes AGES to shoot down one of them for me sometimes. I do not like the Seraphim on higher difficulties, too. It is more dangerous than every cruiser in this game, because the several turrets tear you apart easily and this ship is very fast and manoeuvrable compared to its weapons and size.

In Mods... i remember a very improved version of the SF Mara... this ship was hell, because it was faster than a Perseus and has stronger shields than the Dragon and a stronger hull than a Seraphim.


And in Freespace 1 i hated every enemy ship which was equipped with Flails... no chance to escape.

[Spoon]

Escaping from flails is actually very easy... you just have to turn around and get bolted away at the speed of light 

[niffiwan]

I've found using missiles (like the interceptor) vs the offending flail equipped craft works quite well, just face them and fire missiles until they die... doesn't work so well when you've got a whole wing of flail equipped craft attacking you of course...

Apart from that Dragons... and the wing of Pegasi attacking you in Titan Rebellion, damn stealth is highly annoying, especially without nebula contrails to help you find the blighters (like in Proving Grounds... and those Pegasi aren't attacking you anyway)

[Black Wolf]

Dragons and gad damned Seraphims. They take so long to kill compared with any other craft in the game, and they're wailing on you the entire time with their turrets. Hate those damned things.

[NGTM-1R]

INFR1 scorpions for actually knowing how to trichord.

[BloodFleet]

balls of steele Dragons with morning stars 

[An4ximandros]

"Dragons, ****ing Dragons!" And the WoD CordiF.

[Klaustrophobia]

dragons obviously.  also pegasus.  the final mission in transcend made me RAGE.  the combat eval mission in retail is also highly annoying, even more so because you can't kill them.

seraphims don't bother me in the slightest, but i play on easy or med.  this is gonna sound weird, but anubis(es?) piss me off rather mightily in fs1 as well.  they seem to do the rubber band evasion thing WAY worse than anything else.  i don't recall ever fighting anything armed with a flail though.  the only time i can remember anything like that is one of the cargo depots you raid in FS2 has some alastors armed with morning stars.  i think it was the one from the SOC arc.

[Legate Damar]

The Aestivals in that one Ray Mk IV preview mission Spoon made.

If you're solo and there's nothing to distract their attention they are a pain, especially when there are 2 or more. But otherwise I can beat them in a ray iv ~30% of the time.

In retail dragons are hard to hit but not all that powerful. Seraphim never really bothered me.

Fighting stealth fighters is annoying but not incredibly so.

I've still never fought anything that frustrated me as much as that Horus-X.

[BengalTiger]

Really flat/thin fighters when flying with the keyboard, especially when my own ship has a 0.5 second rotation time in the slowest axis. Even tapping the key when aiming too low would make my ship aim too high.

Examples:
-EAF Claymore (Inferno R1)
-AF Kato (Don't remember which mod it was, something about fighting Ancients in some nebula somewhere).

[Dragon]

The latter could've been Procyon Insurgency, IIRC, it had hostile Katos in a nebula.

[Alan Bolte]

Where possible, I always grab EMP when going up against pegasi. Go shoot something else - I don't want to deal with it.

[Deepstar]

The latter could've been Procyon Insurgency, IIRC, it had hostile Katos in a nebula.

Could also be Ghost Reverants.