Best Original Videogame StarWars ship.

[Vicious]

I gotta affirm the Assault Gunboat. An all-around strong craft, but not so absurdly wanked that it becomes boring. Besides, you see TIEs everywhere. Flying with the Gunboat squadron made you feel like an elite.

OTOH, the TIE Defender was just absurd. Let's see, let's make it faster than an A-Wing, pack more armament than an Assault Gunboat, have better shields, a tractor beam and hyperdrive ... all in this little ball attacked to three spindly arms. Yeesh! Overwank much, anyone? The Gunboat was logical. It was larger than your ordinary Imperial fighter, to account for it's shields and hyperdrive. It wasn't absurdly strong; A-Wings could outrun and outmaneuver it, same thing with Interceptors. B-Wings packed comparable firepower and durability. The Defender was just overpowered wank. Also, the Assault Gunboat was designed for a purpose; engaging corvette- and frigate-class vessels that packed too much defensive firepower for TIE Bombers to get close to. Assault Gunboats also had the major advantage of being useful strike craft due to their hyperdrive. The TIE Defender was billed as the "do anything well" fighter that had no equal in any role. It made everything else useless and you wondered why the hell didn't they just use this sucker all the time?

I'll have to agree here too. I never liked the Defender, and always prefered the Avenger Tie. For one, it was the production run of the Vader's ship in ANH.

The Avenger I have no problem with. It's an advanced Interceptor. It's role is the same, it's just a better escort because it has the hyperdrive and it has minor shields (honestly, it couldn't take much). It wasn't wanked to the extreme like the Defender, though an argument could be made that the fighter-mounted tractor beam was absurd for any fighter to carry.

[Anarchist Bunny]

Victory-II Stary Destroyers from Battlefront II are way too flat.

They're not supposed to be VSDs, just frigates with a similar class name.

Hence why I called them by their proper name, Victory-II, and not VSDs. This is a thread about video game orginal ship designs and I'm bitching about how the mini-star destroyer was too flat. I mean we got large Acclimater support vessels, why couldn't we have a big one for the empire as well?

what was that bloody annoying frigate/corvette thing in Rebel Strike? You know the one? which you have to battle before crash landing on Geonosis? i did quite like it..

You mean the "Imperial Captial Ships" that were only a tad bigger than the Rebel medium transports, and could be completely disarmed in 2, sometimes 1 pass? Thanks, I forgot to mention those in my hate list. Also the Imperial Transports(the large boxy ones that you could fly an X-Wing through, not the Lambda-like ones that dropped troops, or a box holding AT-ST and troops).

[Alan Bolte]

Dear lord, the assault transport was just insane! That was a more effective anti-starfighter platform than any capship.