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Guest Night Hammer

The Sabra is horrible. Simple as that.

I like the Otana a whole bunch more.

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Guest garyah99

Horrible as compared to what? You're right, in that the Otana is much more powerful, but I don't mind the Sabra. I like flying it better than Y-Wings. wink.gif

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Guest Redwing

The Y-Wing's a whole lot better than the Sabra. (But the Otana, now there's a good ship!)

 

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Guest garyah99

Just MY personal preference of course, but I HATE Y-Wings. They're too slow, too cumbersome, the shields are weak, and cannons recharge WAY too slow. IT is supposed to be a heavy assault craft but the only advantage that it has is that it carries a lot of warheads. I'll take the X-Wing's Lasers any day.

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I actually was flyin a skirmish in a Y-wing agasint Multiple craft. Got my sensors knocked out by a A-wing (Front, back, and CMD) you can't imaging how FLUSTrATING it was trying to find that A-wing in a pig before i died... like a blind man in a tank full of sharks

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Originally posted by Night Hammer:

It (Sabra) wouldnt be 1/2 bad if it had 2 turrets.

 

But if it had two turets, it would be Falcon, and so would not be the Sabra.... see the important distinction.

 

Anyway, it is a good way of evening sides, allowing a Corellian Freighter even when points are a little tight. Also good to mach skilllevel - one turret versus nwebies and two versus Kalidor One (long story behind this comment).

 

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Originally posted by Night Hammer:

It (Sabra) wouldnt be 1/2 bad if it had 2 turrets.

 

But if it had two turets, it would be Falcon, and so would not be the Sabra.... see the important distinction.

 

Anyway, it is a good way of evening sides, allowing a Corellian Freighter even when points are a little tight. Also good to mach skilllevel - one turret versus nwebies and two versus Kalidor One (long story behind this comment).

 

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Nova Squadron, the Elite B-Wing flight group stationed aboard the Nebulon B Frigate 'Oracle', home of the tech library.

 

'No capitol too large, no corvette too armed. NOVA squadron, for ALL your extermination needs. Our special at the moment - SSDs (See our work with the Iron Fist !) !'

Commander Jon 'DFMD' Adamson - leader of Nova Squadron (B-Wing ID = 'The White Witch')

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Guest Rogue15

I HATE y-wing missions. They are so dang hard, and the slowness of the y-wing when trying to dodge fire from assault shuttle (first rebel mission) is impossible! I think i skipped it the first time through just because it was so frustrating. I'd take out the tibanna refinery and carrack easily, but those assault shuttles just fire too much lasers at once.

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Guest Rogue15

well i FINALLY beat it. i had to quickly attack target area 3 with all my missiles, then i went and got some more, and when i went back in gold leader was there to help out, i got 33% of the convoy destroyed.

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Guest Uriel Shadowstiehl

I'd have to say that I'd rather fly an A-Wing than any other ship - unless of course the mission called for the destruction of several Imperial Frigates and/or Star Destroyers. Not that it would be impossible - just would take way too long. Of course an entire squadron of TIE Defenders might be a bit much for one A-Wing to handle as well...but a full squadron with people who know how to fly em well...

 

Y-Wing fighters - just way too friggin clunky and unresponsive, though if you're taking on an Imperial Star Destroyer they basically have very little chance of surviving (as long as you know where to send the torpedos and follow up with ion cannons).

 

X-Wing fighters - my preferred craft when an A-Wing just isn't quite up to the task...which typically means I'm gonna take on a full squadron of fighters or more than one capital ship.

 

B-Wing fighters - far superior to the Y-Wing. They take more abuse, they maneuver better, they carry more missles / torpedos. I'm still trying to figure out why the Rebellion just doesn't phase out Y-Wings entirely - they're just throwing good pilots away by making them fly those things. The only excuse I can think of is they're too expensive and the Rebellion does not have enough to offer one to every bomber pilot.

 

Z-95 Headhunters - the only reason I can imagine anyone would continue using these fighters would be for bragging rights - so they could wear that t-shirt that says "I Survived My Last Dogfight in a Z-95". I have nothing nice to say about them whatsoever aside from the fact that they're cheap. Given a choice I would rather fly a Starchaser, except the Rebellion doesn't use them for some silly reason. Heck I'd rather fly a T-Wing for that matter.

 

TIE Fighter - see my note about the Z-95

 

TIE Interceptor - slightly better than flying a TIE Fighter - but oops you can't take more than three direct hits. Or a single concussion missile. Of course you can dodge a single concussion missile, or blast it before it hits you...but can you dodge five or six? And the advanced missiles...

 

TIE Bomber - somewhat worse than a Y-Wing. At least a Y-Wing has shields and ion cannons.

 

TIE Advanced - Finally a ship worth flying, except I can't quite get a firm grip on its handling. It's like trying to drive a Porche over grease. Just a little too twitchy. The speed is very nice, especially when a beam weapon is installed and power has been diverted to engines from the beam weapon.

 

TIE Defender - if you get killed in one of these you should be very very ashamed of yourself - unless you were taking on a full squadron of A-Wing fighters armed with advanced concussion missiles and you ran out of chaff - and you didn't have a beam weapon installed... I consider this to be the loser's fighter ship because it's just way too powerful, especially when equiped with a beam weapon. Of course with the right pilot an A-Wing should be able to take them out regardless...though it would be a lengthy dogfight.

 

Imperial Gunboat - decent fighter, only slightly worse performance and maneuverability than the X-Wing. Also, the laser energy doesn't seem to regenerate quickly enough.

 

Imperial Missile Boat - see note about TIE Defender.

 

YT-1300 (Sabra) - clunky, not really designed for dogfighting anything that has decent weapons and shields. About the only good thing about it is the laser turret, because you can divert all laser energy to engines and get the hell out of there in a hurry even while being harried.

 

YT-2000 (Otana) - slightly better than the YT-1300, the primary benefits being an additional laser turret (which means you don't have to roll to get those fighters that ducked underneath your ship), ion cannons and better engines.

 

So that's my take on most of the ships I've had the opportunity to fly. Overall I'd just rather fly an A-Wing, there are few people who've been able to out-dogfight me in multiplayer when I'm behind the flight-yoke of one of them.

 

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Guest Rogue15

hey, the z-95 is actually a pretty good ship although i prefer an x-wing to a z95. probably the best thing about a z-95 is it's fast recharging shields. the tie bomber is best against capital ships, but only in high numbers, for example, go in skirmish, set it to 6 tie bombers, be the leader of them, and have a capital ship, say, a light calimari, then match your wingmen's speed, switch to missiles, and fire at exactly the same times that they do. it's quite a neat experience since you watch the cap ship's shields drop VERY fast. if a tie bomber is going against a cap ship, don't use those stupid oribital bombs since those are for stations, use the rockets or advanced proton torpedoes. dogfighting in a tie bomber is hard, but it can be done...with advanced concussion missiles.

 

 

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Guest Night Hammer

I'd say the Defender is the most advanced fighter because of all weapoens choices. It's got shields and TIE maneuverability and speed. Plus Ion cannons and missiles.

 

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Originally posted by Uriel Shadowstiehl:

Imperial Gunboat - decent fighter, only slightly worse performance and maneuverability than the X-Wing. Also, the laser energy doesn't seem to regenerate quickly enough.

 

 

Guns are slightly more manuverable and have a better acceleration. This means they are slightly

better dogfighters than X-Wings.

 

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Guest U.C.R Commander

A Ship is only as good as the Pilot inside. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't have a good vessel jeez but whoever can Utilize a Booster Pack and beat a squadron alone they are a god but however the Y-wing is slow and old but if you can take advantage of strong sheilds and hull you can be good. I actually like the sabra or anyother YT-1300 vessel because I just turn off the lazers and can still shoot but go as fast as a X-wing in Mantinance speed. As an added advantage this ship when defensive fire is on you only need to set your sights on avoiding them the lazers will do the rest. The Otana is much better with the double set lazers and no right side angle but like I said before a ship is only as good as the Pilot inside. If you try you can utilize the sabra and be a better fighter than as if you were the Falcon so remember that if you think you can only fly well in the T/D.

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Guest NUWildcat

In regards to the z95 being outclassed by the X-wing, and the B-wing being superior to the Y-wing, and why doesn't the rebellion ditch the z95 and Y-wing.

 

The rebellion can't affort to throw away anything. Unlike the Empire who has the economy to build Death Stars, the Rebellion has to fight for every ounce of oil I would imagine. Thus keeping fighters, although older and outdated, would be logical because 3 pilots in z95 are better then 3 pilots in a hanger.

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Guest U.C.R Commander

Yes so True but after they defeated the Imps at endor they should still keep them for going undercover missions as well to infiltrate pirate locations.

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I just started a new pilot in XWA myself and I skipped the first Y-Wing mission. Those Assault Shuttles are nearly impossible. I can't remember whether I beat it or not the first time around. I hate flying both of the Corellian Transports, period. Give me an X-Wing or B-Wing any day.

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Guest Darth Gohan

I dont really mind flying any craft but the sabra is the exception. It is not very fast and has only 1 turret. So you are right it sucks.

 

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[This message has been edited by Darth Gohan (edited June 30, 2001).]

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