POLL: Star Wars fighter pilot

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I don't know about anyone else.

But I always edited the ships stats. The Missile Boat totally rocked when you cranked it's stats up and used the turbo booster. I could warp across the map, past the fighter groups and bombers, and nail them from behind before they even had a chance to lock targets. Must less shoot.

The battles were totally one sided. Poor rebel scumm...

 

Bah! Who needs shields? Gimme the Interceptor any day and stuff the shields, those useless rebels wouldn't get close enough to worry me anyway. Until I wake up to reality that is.

 

Bah, you should read the X-Wing series, by Mi A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston. Those books are some of the best I've ever read, and definitely beat most of the SW novels pants down.

You get a whole new appreciation of pilots from those books... As well as a love of X-Wngs

 

Give me a jedi starfighter anyday, those rock and it would mean i was a jedi

 

But Arabwel, Rogue Squadron was totally focused on X-wings! Its kinda hard not to love them.

Stil lsaying that, my vote is still for the TIE Interceptor. I mean, f**k! It looks scary if its closing in on you with superior speed and 4 (yes 4 boys and girls) laser cannons! Yeah sure the X-wing has 4 and its the best looking rebel snub fighter but come on! It can't beat the Interceptor for speed! Apart from the Interceptor looking scary, it also looks ultra cool! Think about it ... scaryness and ultra coolness! with 4 lasers!

 

i voted B-Wing, because it is designed for one purpose - maiming imperial goons

 

I actually think that the B-wing is quite a kewl ship. I don't know ... it just seems pretty mean.

 

Bah, squints aren't that good. Superior speed and maneuveraboility do nothing in most cases.

X-wings, on the other hand, have the optimal balance for protection, firepower and speed

Copme on, try to wipe out a star destroyer wuith squints... not going to happen. X-Wings? No problemo. Proton torpedoes, which are something eyeballs, squints and dupes lack, are essentially anti-capital ship weapons. (Sure, dupes have concussion missilies but proton torrpedoes ar ebetter) Although one must admit that using a proton torpedo against a starfighter is pretty much overkill (mosquitos and shotguns come to mind...) it is still a viable tactical option.

TRhe lack of shields on TIEs is pretty harmful.ö.. a pilot who makes a mistake and gets hit, but survives the proscess won't do the same mistake again, and thus becomes essentially a bette rpilot. If they merely die, they learn nothing. Also, training pilots is not cheap. The lack of shields is not only the imps being cheap, it's also a way of making pilots fly better... otr something like that.

Gah, I ramble...

*goes off to re-read her X-Wing books*

 

Yes, but could a squadron of X-wings take out a Federation Starship?

whoops, I'm mixing up fantasy worlds again...

 

I never understood why the Federation only uses capital ships and no fighters. It seems kinda silly to me.

I think a squadron or two of fighters could make short work of a Star Trek starship. Just me wondering.

 

It would seem to me that shield strength and hull integrity would be the main difference here.

Comparitively, Star Trek capital ships seem to have much stronger shields but much weaker hulls compared to Star Wars capital ships. Thus in Star Trek you must pump all your firepower into piercing a ship's shields after which the ship tends to get blown to bits really quickly. In Star Wars it appears much easier to pierce shilds and damage the ship but the hulls seem to be able to absorb considerably greater damage. Thus fighters with their relatively small weapons would be largely ineffective against Star Trek ships' shields but would actually be able to do some damage and help wear down the hulls of the Star Wars capital ships.

Also, the Star Trek capital ships appear to have much better aim (except when the plot requires the ship to miss ) so the fights tend to be much more of a "lets beat on each other until we have only the last man standing" slugfest compared to the tactical manuvering that we see in Star Wars.

 

Actually, to my knowlegde, they could

A single volley of proton torpedoes froma squadron can take out a star destroyer, shields and all. (That's 12x2) An X-wing carries 6 prooton torpedoes. Think that works?

 

Actually, I think Star Trek ships would have a serious disadvantage. Since they overly rely on shields, they become very vulnerable to ion cannons, like those mounted on Y-wings. That way you only need some fighters with ion cannons to bring down the shield and then a couple of proton torpedoes to damage the central core and voila, there goes the Star Trek ship.

And if you use rebel ships, you have shields so the better aim of the Star Trek ships is wasted since they can't breach your shields except by multiple hits.

 

Um, if the Star Trek weapons are anything like the turbolasers in SW, a single hit WILL wipe out a starfighter, shields or no.

 

Phasers are much more powerful than lasers, you could spend all day firing a laser at a star trek ship and it would do squat to the shields... but a phaser would go through a star destroyer like a red hot knife through butter... although their ion cannon weakness is the only drawback (unless its that little badass vessel from DS9 with armour)

 

Hmm... I doubt it.

Someone official has apparently said somewhere (I know not if this is true) That the only way Enterprise or similar could scrap a SSD would be to beam bombs aboard... and shields prevent that

 

Uh Oh...

Sorry Bel, I think I highjacked your thread and turned it into a heated debate about Star Trek vs. Star Wars.

Soon we'll have to take this to the alley!

Besides, the most potent vessel in space is the Winnebago with wings piloted by the dashing Lone Starr and his faithful companion 'Barf'. They could take on the best of either fantasy universe.

 

I agree.

Although i'd like to see a space-segway.

 

Bah who would wanna fly a fighter?

Real men fly Death Stars

 

"I never understood why the Federation only uses capital ships and no fighters. It seems kinda silly to me."

Huh? The Federation has droid fighters. They were all over the place in the Battle of Naboo.

You even see a pair of them, activated and walking around in the hangar during the opening sequence of TPM right when Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan arrive.