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Ships you despise

Posted: 2006-12-13 12:41pm
by Sam Or I
Out of all the ships in the Movies and EU, which do you dispise the most ?

Posted: 2006-12-13 12:51pm
by Anguirus
The Carrack cruiser. Just...ugh.

-.-

Posted: 2006-12-13 01:02pm
by Lex
I second that notion :P

Carrack cruisers are probably the most disgusting ships all among Star Wars!

Re: Ships you despise

Posted: 2006-12-13 01:03pm
by FedRebel
Sam Or I wrote:Out of all the ships in the Movies and EU, which do you dispise the most ?
The whole Vong fleet

Posted: 2006-12-13 01:08pm
by The Grim Squeaker
The Suncrusher followed closely by the Vhong battleships

Posted: 2006-12-13 01:10pm
by 000
I hate how the New Class ships look in CTD. Hideous.

Posted: 2006-12-13 01:11pm
by K. A. Pital
The Suncrusher. KJA is an idiot. Vong as well. I also hate the Uglies, whoever came up with that.... that's just wrong technology-wise. SW is not 40K. There are no warp powers to hold this shit together and make it fly and shoot.

And yeah, Darksaber... although that's not a ship... but I hate it.

Posted: 2006-12-13 01:12pm
by Big Orange
What is so goofy about the Suncrusher?

Posted: 2006-12-13 01:18pm
by 000
It's indestructible. And can blow up stars.

Posted: 2006-12-13 01:20pm
by The Grim Squeaker
000 wrote:It's indestructible. And can blow up stars.
And is the size of a fighter, built by a group of isolated scientists using "Quantum armour" that never appears again (Barring something with a similiar name but magnitudes less wank in the Vhong killer droids).
And it blew up stars in a way that created a solar system destroying Supernova don't forget (With a single "resonance torpedo") :x

Posted: 2006-12-13 01:36pm
by FTeik
The quantum-armor re-appeared in the JYK-novels, IIRC.

And what I hate the most aside from Vong-ships, Suncrushers and Nebulon-Bs? Strikes, Lancers, the entire NewClass-ships as shown in CTD and Hapan Battledragons.

Posted: 2006-12-13 01:48pm
by Kuciwalker
Suncrusher, Vong, and the goddamn Centerpoint Station. If you're going to invent a superweapon use it or give a good reason for it not being used.

Also, K-Wings. I actually like them, but where the hell did they go after that little incident in Koornacht?

Posted: 2006-12-13 02:01pm
by Gustav32Vasa
Kuciwalker wrote:Suncrusher, Vong, and the goddamn Centerpoint Station. If you're going to invent a superweapon use it or give a good reason for it not being used.

Also, K-Wings. I actually like them, but where the hell did they go after that little incident in Koornacht?
Centerpoint station was not a superweapon.

Posted: 2006-12-13 02:07pm
by Darth Tanner
Gustav32Vasa wrote:
Centerpoint station was not a superweapon.
It could wipe fleets out from the other side of the galaxy, I'd say that was pretty much a super weapon.

Why the Carrack hate, I love those things.

My hate is the entire Mon Cal Fleet, followed by E-wings and the Venerator.

Posted: 2006-12-13 02:14pm
by FTeik
But it was never intended by its creators to be used as a superweapon.

About the K-Wing, I recently saw a documentation about the destruction of the battleship Bismark in WW2 again. The British Swordfish-fighters/bombers with their single, large torpedo would be strikingly similar to K-Wings with their large payload ("rotten egg") and their need for support from other fighters. They might have been good against medium vessels like Victories and ImpStars (at least as far as the EU-GFFA is concerned), but after the BFC the NR started to invest into battleships of its own.

Posted: 2006-12-13 02:58pm
by Connor MacLeod
Ithullian ore hauler. Giant kilometre-long dead space bug converted into a space transport.

Posted: 2006-12-13 04:05pm
by RogueIce
FTeik wrote:The quantum-armor re-appeared in the JYK-novels, IIRC.

And what I hate the most aside from Vong-ships, Suncrushers and Nebulon-Bs? Strikes, Lancers, the entire NewClass-ships as shown in CTD and Hapan Battledragons.
What do you have against the Nebulon-B? :?

Anyway, what I hate is the Bulwark Battlecruiser from Rebellion. I have no problem with an Alliance/New Republic equivalent to the SSD, but that thing was just...fugly.

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EDIT: Well, it seems it got a new look for Empires at War that makes it look more reasonable (at least from that one perspective I saw). So maybe there's hope for it yet.

Posted: 2006-12-13 04:18pm
by Big Orange
Darth Tanner wrote: My hate is the entire Mon Cal Fleet, followed by E-wings and the Venerator.
I don't think much of the Mon Cal warships either, but I do not mind the Venator-class Star Destroyer and it's a decent enough predecessor to the more infamous Imperial-class Star Destroyer and it’s quite likely the Venator series would still be a common Imperial warship as late as A New Hope (although it would not be a frontline capital ship like the ISD).

Posted: 2006-12-13 04:19pm
by 000
I dunno, I always kind of liked Bulwark's look.

Posted: 2006-12-13 04:21pm
by Fingolfin_Noldor
I like Mon Cal cruisers for their smooth sleek curves.

What I don't like is that Bulwark cruiser because it looks like some giant gold fish.

Add the Vong fleet, and the other silly ships etc.

Posted: 2006-12-13 04:30pm
by 000
Mon Remonda in particular was a nice looking design. And I say that as a KDY fan.

I'll second the Ithullan Ore Hauler, and submit all those goofy Mandalorian ships in TotJ. Although Dustin Weaver's reimagining of them in the new series makes them at least a bit more palatable.

Posted: 2006-12-13 04:31pm
by Crossroads Inc.
Seriously I don't get the Carrack hate either. Those are nice, realistice, utilitarian ships, not pretty, but not butt ugly snotsticals like the Vongships. Organic does Not mean it hasta look like flying guts.

Posted: 2006-12-13 04:48pm
by Kuciwalker
I forgot to mention: I loathe the ARC-170 fighter. The Z-95 was supposed to be the predecessor to the X-Wing.

edit: and another I forgot, ANY of the ships from those new books (with the weird hive insect things)
Gustav32Vasa wrote:
Kuciwalker wrote:Suncrusher, Vong, and the goddamn Centerpoint Station. If you're going to invent a superweapon use it or give a good reason for it not being used.

Also, K-Wings. I actually like them, but where the hell did they go after that little incident in Koornacht?
Centerpoint station was not a superweapon.
How exactly is something that can destroy pretty much anything anywhere in the galaxy not a superweapon?

Posted: 2006-12-13 05:00pm
by 000
The Z-95 was supposed to be the predecessor to the X-Wing.
It still is. ARC-170s are just manufactured by the same company.

Centerpoint wasn't built as a superweapon, is the point. It's designed as a giant hyperspace tractor.

It can be used as a superweapon, certainly, but it's notoriously difficult to getting it working in that capacity.[/quote]

Posted: 2006-12-13 05:33pm
by Stofsk
Kuciwalker wrote:I forgot to mention: I loathe the ARC-170 fighter. The Z-95 was supposed to be the predecessor to the X-Wing.
Are you fucking kidding? The ARC-170 is awesome! We should have seen a fucking dogfight with those fuckers busting up shit; instead, we got buzz droids. :roll:

The ARC-170 wasn't a space superiority fighter like the X-wing. It's a robust recon fighter that focused on survivability rather than speed