Favourite Ship

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Its like neither of you know style.

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The Stiletto was a very narrow close second. I love that ship to death but I can't choose it over the Hammerhead. Also the Sabre disappoints and bores me. It's just a Stiletto with two pointless spars. Yawn.

I do need to get around to getting into Discovery at some point. I'm just chronically lazy when it comes to modding and I can play the vanilla game without complaints for hours. I will always love snaking across Omicron Alpha in my Hammerhead, getting into very difficult fights with at least 9 Outcast ships. It's a thrill.

 

[Imre Csete]

The Ragnarov-class Titan from Sins of a Solar Empire.

A massive railgun with an FTL drive is fun. Bonus points for its shotgun mode.

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[Adventurer2626]

Eastern corsair ships. I like the sails.

 

[ShadowGandalf01]

I always liked the USS Voyager, for it's pointlessly movable warp nacelles.

Not pointless... The general rule of Starships is that Warp Nacelles must have direct line of sight to each other in order to generate a stable Warp Field around the ship. So why do they swing down at all you ask? It's all part of the warp nacelle redesign that prevents warp systems from damaging the fabric of space....

Sorry to sound like a picky nerd. I got all this from the magazine I'm subscribed to, the official Star Trek Starships collection.

I'd say my fave ships are...

Real - Titanic (i have an Airfix model i built of it)
Fictional - Voyager from Star Trek (we have that in common)

 

[renegade7]

In EVE Online:

My favorite all-around ship is the Hurricane. It can handle a wide variety of situations in both PVE and PVP. It doesn't have the defensive power of the Drake or a battleship, but it makes up for it with being very fast and having about 1.75x the damage output of the Drake. It was nerfed recently (with good reason, as it was a little OP) to make it a little fairer when pitched against the other ships in its class, but the overall playstyle that the Hurricane follows is still my favorite. Its upgraded tier, the Republic Fleet Hurricane (which is the old un-nerfed Hurricane) is basically the regular 'cane, but better, and it can go toe-to-toe with nearly any sub-capital and come out victorious. Its weakness is stasis webifiers, which take away its dodging ability ("Speed tank"), but that can be countered with fleet support or having some onboard EWAR or capacitor drainers.

For PVP, I generally like the versatile Rifter. It can be fitted for speed, offense, or defense. Obviously it's outclassed by higher-tier ships like the Dramiel or its T2 variants or Interceptors, but the Rifter was my first PVP ship and will always be one of my favorites. Also, low cost can be a significant advantage because it allows you to take some pretty stupid risks with it, and that always results in a good time.

 

[Slycne]

I'm well aware of that. Doesn't make it any less cool. I like to imagine such ships at Jutland.

Don't know exact details of her sinking. Submarines are cheaters anyway.

He, well of course a vessel like that would have been quite dominate in a WWI era engagement.

There has been a lot of number crunching though to postulate that the Yamato would still have not fared much better against a contemporary battleship of its time in a one on one fight. The 18.1" guns she carried didn't actually contribute that much more significantly to its range and total boardside weight, and while it certainly had one of the thickest belt armors around, it was plagued with inferior quality metal - due to when it was produced during the war. This was also hampered by less than stellar blindfire fire control compared to its contemporaries. Iowa and South Dakota class ships were already firing past the visual horizon.

Those were actually torpedo bombers that delivered the finally salvo to sink her - hense why being undergunned in AA during that time was a big mistake, but it still took 11 torpedoes and 6 bombs to do it. It's a cool ship none the less, but like I said my inner historian flares up when it's put on pedestal. The Japanese were doing far cooler things with their destroyer tactics any ways.

 

[Meinos Kaen]

NarutoXHinata. *feels dagger stares* Ehm, nevermind. I'll go with the headquarters from Suikoden 4.

 

[Reiper]

Spoiler: This one.

And if that doesn't count for some silly reason, my choice is the Enterprise. Seems like the nice way to travel.

You *****! RON AND KIM FOREVER! ALSO I ALREADY WIN BECAUSE IT'S CANON. XD

I never understood the whole "Kigo" thing, where did it even come from!? Though I did find Ron more annoying in season 4...


OT: I make the controversial decision of choosing the NX-01 enterprise!

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

I would have to say the Retribution Class Battleship of Warhammer 40k.

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From its armoured prow to its insane broadside armament, it is my favorite 'kill everything that it meets' warship.

Honorable mentions go the the Raganov Titan from Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion for be being the Orkish concept of being a gun with smaller guns strapped to it and the Sovereign class from Star Trek, the Porsche of Federation starships.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

my inner historian flares up when it's put on pedestal.

Haha, that's fair. I react similarly when people suggest that the decision to stick with Sherman production instead of beginning Pershing production was right because of the Sherman's "better" mobility. >.<

[sub][sub]The argument that access to having such a large pool of Shermans in the late war period was better gets some concessions from me but I still think American war industry was efficient enough to produce enough Pershings to achieve the same goal with less sacrifice.[/sub][/sub]

*ahem*

Getting carried away. <.<

The Japanese were doing far cooler things with their destroyer tactics any ways.

Do you have any WWII naval tactic books to recommend? I like authors like John Keegan but I'd check out anyone's work on the subject. I'd like to dive more into the naval history of the world when I'm looking for fun reading.

 

[DaWaffledude]

Fitz/Simmons from Agents o-

Oh.

Uh, Serenity I guess.

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[Slycne]

Do you have any WWII naval tactic books to recommend? I like authors like John Keegan but I'd check out anyone's work on the subject. I'd like to dive more into the naval history of the world when I'm looking for fun reading.

Hilter's U-Boat War by Clay Blair was an interesting read. Most of what everyone knows and is taught about German submarine warfare and its effectiveness was rubbish. There were certain some brilliant captains and commanders, but they kept getting misappropriated by folks higher in the Naval chain of command. Fair warning: it's quite exhaustive and reads more like an encyclopedia.

One of my roommates has been recommending another one about the Pacific theater, something about a bunch of resurfaced documents and getting to see the reports from both sides. I think it might be Eagle Against the Sun, but I'll double check on that.

 

[A_Parked_Car]

Off the top of my head I would say that my favourite ship is the Japanese fleet carrier Shokaku. It was a really nice looking carrier and proved to be quite handy throughout the early part of the Pacific War. Though her sister-ship Zuikaku had a much more distinguished career.

 

[Hero of Lime]

My favorite would have to be the X Wing Starfighter from Star Wars. I like its look, capabilities, and it's my favorite ship to use in the Rouge Squadron games for its overall balanced performance.

 

[A_Parked_Car]

Hilter's U-Boat War by Clay Blair was an interesting read. Most of what everyone knows and is taught about German submarine warfare and its effectiveness was rubbish. There were certain some brilliant captains and commanders, but they kept getting misappropriated by folks higher in the Naval chain of command. Fair warning: it's quite exhaustive and reads more like an encyclopedia.

One of my roommates has been recommending another one about the Pacific theater, something about a bunch of resurfaced documents and getting to see the reports from both sides. I think it might be Eagle Against the Sun, but I'll double check on that.

It definitely wouldn't be Eagle Against the Sun by Ronald Spector, as that one is a pretty old single-volume, general history of the Pacific War (it is from the early 1980s if my memory serves). Eagle Against the Sun is very good for what it is, but a fair amount of his scholarship is now outdated.

I'm not quite sure what book your roommate would be referring to. Is it in regards to the submarine war specifically?

 

[Slycne]

It definitely wouldn't be Eagle Against the Sun by Ronald Spector, as that one is a pretty old single-volume, general history of the Pacific War (it is from the early 1980s if my memory serves). Eagle Against the Sun is very good for what it is, but a fair amount of his scholarship is now outdated.

I'm not quite sure what book your roommate would be referring to. Is it in regards to the submarine war specifically?

No, it was more an overall focus of naval engagements in the Pacific, driving some new commentary based on recently released/found Japanese naval reports. I could have sworn it had Eagle in the title and that was the first one that came up when I searched, but that does seem to be older than what he'd indicated when we were chatting about it.

 

[Falien]

I'm an old fart, and every time ships are mentioned, I think of The Odyssey from Ulysses 31 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_31]:

Spoiler: The Odyssey as it appeared on the original cartoon

Spoiler: The Odyssey, by deviantart user James Margerum

Also, not a ship per se, but still a favourite:

Spoiler: Seaquest DSV

 

[Muspelheim]

The Arktika class of nuclear icebreakers. They're awesome.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/RIAN_archive_186141_Nuclear_icebreaker_Arktika.jpg

Harnessing the Power of the Atom to crush the ice of the North Pole before it. Not even coordinated polar bear attacks can bring it to a stop.

 

[MiskWisk]

My absolute favourite is the Antaeus adaptive cruiser. It's a fictional carrier that produces new units within seconds using nanobots, then outfits them with chips that hold the minds of dead soldiers. Plus it rises from the ocean floor with an activation signal (that's why it's so rusty in the picture).

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Oh man that takes me back. I really enjoyed that game even if the forced stealth mission was an exercise in frustration and keyboard smashing for me.

Anyway, back to the crux of the thread, mine would probably be:

Spoiler: This little beauty here

As there is no kill quite like overkill. I mean really, aside from how big the thing is, it carries a laser that for all intents and purposes is just one giant screw you gun to anything that tries to take it head on.

Anyway, I'll stop being boring now.

 

[Icehearted]

I see people mentioning Serenity a lot, but I get the feeling that ship would feel mighty cramped.

My vote's for the SSV Normandy. Elegant, fast, she can handler herself in space and in atmospheres, comfy captain's quarters (especially in the Cerberus rebuild), and room enough for a great crew and two land vehicles. The damned thing even has an aquarium, a bar, and a sassy but loyal AI with a twisted sense of humor running a lot of her functions. That's luxury!