What is your all-around favorite Starfighter?

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What is your all-around favorite Starfighter?

Post by Khas » Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:51 pm

Self-explanatory poll. This is not which one would win, but which is your favorite.

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Re: What is your all-around favorite Starfighter?

Post by User1356 » Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:00 pm

Variable fighters from Macross

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Post by Mike DiCenso » Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:10 pm

There are a lot of choices here that should have, but did not make the list. I will say that the one fighter that probably tops every other is the Xelee Night Fighter.
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Re: What is your all-around favorite Starfighter?

Post by Enterprise E » Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:15 am

My favorite starfighter of the ones that are listed is the Arwing. It looks great, has great defenses, has serious firepower, and has good performance as well.

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Re: What is your all-around favorite Starfighter?

Post by Khas » Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:37 am

Ya know what, I've decided to vote on this. I like all these fighters, but I decided to go with the Wraith. The ST fighters are too... distant, while the SW fighters are overrated. And I guess that after years of sending in waves of cloaked Wraiths, I just kind of forged an emotional bond with that spacecraft.

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Re: What is your all-around favorite Starfighter?

Post by Cocytus » Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:25 am

It's hard to pick one overall favorite, but I've got to say a serious contendor for my top space would be the TIE Defender. It's triangular geometry is a welcome departure from the symmetry that characterizes so many starship/fighter designs, and it's got the shields, hyperdrive, and copious weapons to go toe-to-toe with any Alliance starfighter.

(And it was my favorite ship in the old TIE Fighter game.)

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Re: What is your all-around favorite Starfighter?

Post by Mr. Oragahn » Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:18 am

In the new BSG/Cap shows, the Vipers, definitely.

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There's a fan made variant of the Mk-VII that's nice:

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We've seen thus far two space fighters, there was another completed model which I suppose was ready for use at some point, the Mark VIII, but probably looked too Cylonish:

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And now we have this sweet baby from Caprica:

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The lifting on the Mark-II was fantastic.
I'm trying to figure out what a nuStar Wars X-wing would have looked like.

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Post by Sideswipe » Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:52 pm

Mr. Oragahn wrote:In the new BSG/Cap shows, the Vipers, definitely.

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The lifting on the Mark-II was fantastic.
I don't see a whole lot of MK-II in there. Looks a lot like an old G.I. Joe Conquest to me.Image

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Re: What is your all-around favorite Starfighter?

Post by PunkMaister » Sun Mar 28, 2010 2:51 pm

I'd have to say that I have 2 personal favorites not necesarily the most powerful out there but my faves none the less and they are
Babylon 5's Starfurys and Stargate's F-302s

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