Favorite/least favorite SW Ships in X-Wing-Series Games

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2002-11-11 06:22am

The Y-wing isn't *that* bad...

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2002-11-11 05:02pm

The Y-wing slow, and its net firepower is less than the X-wing's.

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2002-11-11 05:37pm

Like:

TIE Defender -- Fast, better shields than all other starfighters (even better than Advanced?), ion canons and sometimes a tractor beam.
X-Wing -- gotta love the design!

Dislike:

Y-Wing -- For the reasons already posted. Until the advent of the B-Wing, it was the only joice to take out capital ships, now... It's only good for the sound of it's engines.
A-Wing -- The only starfighter with enough speed to tackle the TIEs, sonofabitch too shoot at, crap shields (for a Rebel craft, that is).

Thunderfire · Post by **Thunderfire** » 2002-11-12 02:33am

Darth Yoshi wrote:and its net firepower is less than the X-wing's.

Wrong. The 2 lasers + ions fire quite a bit faster than 4 lasers.
Y-Wing does about 50% more damage per second compared to
the X-Wing. Y-Wings guns are also better placed wich means you
will get more quad hits compared to the X-Wing.

Post by **Vympel** » 2002-11-12 03:42am

Thunderfire wrote:
Wrong. The 2 lasers + ions fire quite a bit faster than 4 lasers.
Y-Wing does about 50% more damage per second compared to
the X-Wing. Y-Wings guns are also better placed wich means you
will get more quad hits compared to the X-Wing.

That's true- you CAN routinely get sniper hits on TIEs with the closely spaced, centerline guns of the Y-Wing.

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2002-11-12 10:09pm

Thunderfire wrote:
Darth Yoshi wrote:and its net firepower is less than the X-wing's.
Wrong. The 2 lasers + ions fire quite a bit faster than 4 lasers.
Y-Wing does about 50% more damage per second compared to
the X-Wing. Y-Wings guns are also better placed wich means you
will get more quad hits compared to the X-Wing.

Howeverr Ion Cannons have less range and less pwoer than lasers. Anyway the Y-Wig is very well suited to the bomber/heavy attack fighter role. It has a huge amont of firepower directed into one direction but it is unmanueverable and slow.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2002-11-12 11:42pm

Also, ions can only destroy TIEs. Everything else is just disabled. And even when the TIEs are destroyed by the ions, you still don't get credit for the kill.

Thunderfire · Post by **Thunderfire** » 2002-11-13 02:21am

Darth Yoshi wrote:Also, ions can only destroy TIEs. Everything else is just disabled.

Ties get disabled too in XvT and later games. You will get a atleast a
shared kill for a disabled ship. A disabled ship ist also better than a
destroyed ship because the later often has a following wave.