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What's your favourite Star Wars Starfighter? And which one is the best?

Well, of the pre-NJO starfighters, the TIE Defender was hands-down the most powerful. 50% faster than an X-Wing with equal shielding and more firepower thanks to the addition of a pair of ion cannons.

Since firepower is your friend, I'll have to go with the TIE-Defender as my favorite Imperial starfighter. Of the New Republic/Rebel Alliance fighters, I like the E-Wing the best. 3 laser cannons to the X-Wing's 4 but nearly 3 times the torpedo payload, and as fast and manueverable as a TIE Interceptor. What's not to like?

There are, to the best of my knowledge, no statistics on the NJO-era starfighters. Aside from the fact X-Wings now have 3 proton torpedo tubes instead of just 2, and have been significantly upgraded otherwise--as presumably all the various starfighter designs have.

I've always been partial to the Chiss 'Clawfighter' myself - something about the concept of melding powerful weapons systems with a fighter superior in maneuverability to almost anything else out there.

My favorite starfighter of the Rebel Alliance era? Certainly the A-Wing. Concept and shape do a lot for me there.

If I’ve got to go with more “conventional” fighters, I’d stick with the TIE ‘Interceptor’. Nothing can beat the tried-and-true law of mass-production on a proven frame. While the ‘Phantom’ and ‘Avenger’ were cool – I’d have loved to see those dealt with in written series -, the ‘Interceptor’ takes the cake as the most versatile.

I think, though, that I like the Yhuuzan Vong coralskipper most of all. A ship that can eat rocks to regenerate and warps gravity as a means of defense. Pure genius.

My favouite fighters was the original X-Wing. as Wedge quoted it was the prefect blend of speed menouverability and fire power.

E-Wing, bitch.

Where is the E-Wing during NJO? The E-Wing was a failure.

Darth Pounder wrote:Where is the E-Wing during NJO? The E-Wing was a failure.

I don't give a flying fuck if it was a failure. The E-Wing is still my favourite, and nothing anyone says will change my mind.

Darth Pounder wrote:Where is the E-Wing during NJO? The E-Wing was a failure.

Bzzt.

The very first ones out of the factory had issues with the tibanna gas they were issued, not the fighters themselves.

The E-Wing excelled, and the E-Wing's counterpart to the advanced NJO-era XJ3 X-Wing has been released, the E-Wing Series II or something.

I like the A-wing and the TIE Interceptor. The E-wing has always just seemed sort of ugly to me.

the classic TIE fighter.

I just love the B-Wing.

Republic Gunship


If that doesn't count, then the X-wing.

TIE Advance X1. Can you beat Vaders ship? Can you really? I think not! Sheilds, rotatable gun mounts, hyperdrive. Everything a Rebel fighter has, except Imperial-ized.

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:TIE Advance X1. Can you beat Vaders ship? Can you really? I think not! Sheilds, rotatable gun mounts, hyperdrive. Everything a Rebel fighter has, except Imperial-ized.

Everthing except protorps.

IG-88E wrote:

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:TIE Advance X1. Can you beat Vaders ship? Can you really? I think not! Sheilds, rotatable gun mounts, hyperdrive. Everything a Rebel fighter has, except Imperial-ized.

Everthing except protorps.

TIE Defender. On your KNEES, Rebel Scum!

SirNitram wrote:TIE Defender. On your KNEES, Rebel Scum!

Bah, kids with their uber-wank fighters these days. There used to be a time when your ship was just as fast as theirs, when you had to fly 50 feet behind them and blast 'em to atoms. There wasn't any uber-speed/agility. There wasn't weapon pailoads big enough to give Tarkin a heart-attack. You got two laser cannons, and you were sent on a mission to crush the Rebels.

Nowadays we have fighters with thrity laser cannons, two dozen ion cannons, eight torpedo tubes, speeds in excess of .9c, manuverability that would give Tarkins wife a heart-attack, and super god shields that give ISDs a hard time. What a bunch fo wanking!

Ah the good 'ol days.

Always has, always will be: The Incom T-65 X-Wing

My favorite starfighters are Slave 1, the X-wing, the B-wing, and my fav, the Mell. Falcon. Eat blaster bolts ya Imp panisses

The Falcon is classified as a light freighter or courier, not a fighter.

I always liked the way the TIE Bomber looked.

Robert Treder wrote:The Falcon is classified as a light freighter or courier, not a fighter.

Alright, then the A-wing, the last world in air superiorty.

Admiral Johnason wrote:

Robert Treder wrote:The Falcon is classified as a light freighter or courier, not a fighter.

Alright, then the A-wing, the last world in air superiorty.

I thought the A-wing was just a scout ship.

Admiral Johnason wrote:Alright, then the A-wing, the last world in air superiorty.

*Laughs hysterically as the pathetic Rebel A-Wing is pursued through a series of asteroids, flaming hoops, and otherwise dangerous obstacle fields, until blasted into flaming space trash by the mighty TIE Interceptor*

Bow down to the Emperor's wrath ignorant Rebel traitor!

*Thousand of Jedi Starfighters drop out of hyperspace with thousands of B-wings and X-wings for support. Millios of ties are plowen right out of the stars. Only one remains*

Come here and say that you Imperial-ass shiner.

If you can have thousands of Jedi Starfighters, we can have thousands of TIE Phantoms.