Alright lets run through the list: Blaze, Phase, Neutron, Emalgha, is that all? I think so. Now lets go over their abilities by my experience. Blaze cannons and turrets have a range enough to put of some sort of decent fight against beings of the crescent. I will give them an average, rangewise. Damage wise, they are very good. Phase weapons have the longest range and do damage similar to blaze weapons. They are the most accurate aswell. Neutron cannons inflict the most damage but fire slow and have a short range. Emalgha weapons have the shortest range, and do minimal to shields but they pack the punch you need to take down voinian armor. Quite a wide array of weapons.
Personally, i like the disco machine gun the most, but i think that phase it the best for me. It is perfect for the monty python. The range is amazing and i can mow down pesky fighters in my gunship like pie because of the accuracy. This especially works against azdaras. WHat do you think the best is. Please Please PLEASE no simple "I like the blaze guns" though, give me a reason, examples, etc.

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Hmmmm...Good question. I believe I like the the blaze guns the best, because I've used them the most, have a pretty good damage rate, and I like the sound they make. But I am really beginning to like the phase turret, as you said, because it has really good range, and pretty good damage rate similar to the blaze guns. I just hate the sounds they make...Phase guns sounds like toys. Those two are a close call, and neutron turrets go to third place.

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Personally I like swival phase cannons for my Arada because they compensate for my lousy shooting abilities but suit the high speed strafing runs I like. Anything else makes me look like a fool as I miss terribly and then overshoot. For the Monty Python this still works (though I try to avoid this tactic) and you can take down anything bar the Voinians by outflying or outshooting them (anything tougher can't catch you, anything faster gets blasted). Azdaras are tricky but if you chase them you can get enough hits in to send those little dragonflies of death down.

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Originally posted by Great White Godfather:
**Personally I like swival phase cannons for my Arada because they compensate for my lousy shooting abilities but suit the high speed strafing runs I like. Anything else makes me look like a fool as I miss terribly and then overshoot. For the Monty Python this still works (though I try to avoid this tactic) and you can take down anything bar the Voinians by outflying or outshooting them (anything tougher can't catch you, anything faster gets blasted). Azdaras are tricky but if you chase them you can get enough hits in to send those little dragonflies of death down.

Just a poor newbie searching for the truth.

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If your key controls are still set on default, then if you select the target you want to shoot at, and press "A" for "autopilot", your ship will automatically point itself at the ship, and you will get some nasty direct hits. It works really well.

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I like Phase and Blaze (hey, that ryhmes two times! Oh no, now I'm a poet, and I didn't even know it! ) turrets and cannons the best. With phase, you get nice range, and good firepower combined with Phase weapons incredible firing rate. Blaze have a bad range, but good firing rate. I tend to use Blaze for armor, and Phase for shields. Another thing that's good about both of them is that they all don't weigh that much, unlike Neutrons and Emalgha weapons.

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(quote)Originally posted by Captain Carnotaur:
**I like Phase and Blaze (hey, that ryhmes two times! Oh no, now I'm a poet, and I didn't even know it!:)

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Well I like the Neutron Guns because of the high damage rate on shields and armor. You can shoot other ships that fly very fast when they come through your target range. Especaly use full for shooting up the Azdaras. Any other hostile ships that stray into my ships firing range can be damaged to somewhat drgee before I start launching secondary weapons.

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**Well I like the Neutron Guns because of the high damage rate on shields and armor. You can shoot other ships that fly very fast when they come through your target range. Especaly use full for shooting up the Azdaras. Any other hostile ships that stray into my ships firing range can be damaged to somewhat drgee before I start launching secondary weapons.

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Yes. That's very true. Neutron guns are really good for things like that. If you can get enough neutron guns on your ship (four or more is a good number) and use autopilot to concentrate on your nearest hostiles, you can usually destroy fighters before they can attempt a second pass.

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I posted a topic on this topic "weapon myths/maths".
http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/webboard/Forum8/HTML/002512.html#

It had all the numbers and calculations that matter (outcluding size and prize), you might find it the answer to your problems. However, i can compress it to this:

Neutron CANNONS for MP

Phase turrets for humans & crescent

Neutron turrets suck since they 1)act as if there was only one cannon and 2)are so slow they fire in the wrong direction.

Emalgha guns aren't really that good.

Hope that helps.

ComputerLizard

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Originally posted by ComputerLizard:
**I posted a topic on this topic "weapon myths/maths".
http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/webboard/Forum8/HTML/002512.html#

It had all the numbers and calculations that matter (outcluding size and prize), you might find it the answer to your problems. However, i can compress it to this:

Neutron CANNONS for MP

Phase turrets for humans & crescent

Neutron turrets suck since they 1)act as if there was only one cannon and 2)are so slow they fire in the wrong direction.

Emalgha guns aren't really that good.

Hope that helps.

ComputerLizard

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Yeah, I agree. I really like the neutron cannon(s), but the turrets like to fire the opposite direction when you are going prety fast. The neutron cannons are downright excellent, though. With enough of them, you can whipe out just about anything in no time. Those Voinian Fighters might be easy to destroy, but they can pack such a huge punch in such a short matter of time, thanks to the three neutron cannons and rockets.

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Nah, at first I liked Neutrons, but now I like Blaze and Phase much more. Both of them are smaller, and work better than Neutrons.

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**Nah, at first I liked Neutrons, but now I like Blaze and Phase much more. Both of them are smaller, and work better than Neutrons.

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I like the neutrons, but I do like the blaze and phase guns better. It's just the neutron turret that really gets on my nerves...You have to have a lot of them to get very much firepower, and even then, the neutron gun is still better. I'm beginning to like the phase gun the more I use it. The phase turrets are also excellent. They rarely, if ever miss, and have somewhat incredible range, which I find handy for the pesky fighters that like to drive you crazy.

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I think that Blaze and Phase are the best. They both have a fast firing rate, are light, and turrets have double the firing rate of Cannons. Emalgha and Neutron don't have any of those features. I like to use Blaze mostly, because I stick in UE Space, but If I go into the Cresent, all I have t so is switch Blaze with Phase since they weigh the same.

But otherwise the best combos are:
Blaze vs. Human Renegade
Neutron vs. Voinian
Phase vs. Everything else

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**I think that Blaze and Phase are the best. They both have a fast firing rate, are light, and turrets have double the firing rate of Cannons. Emalgha and Neutron don't have any of those features. I like to use Blaze mostly, because I stick in UE Space, but If I go into the Cresent, all I have t so is switch Blaze with Phase since they weigh the same.

But otherwise the best combos are:
Blaze vs. Human Renegade
Neutron vs. Voinian
Phase vs. Everything else

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Yeap, blaze is what I use the most, because I usually hang around UE space. Phase are good vs. everything else, except one race. Never use phase weapons against the Voinians! It will take you a year to get rid of a single frigate...They do nothing to armor. Once I hired lots of Laziras, (they might have been Aradas...I don't remember) and went into Voinian space. They didn't last two systems trying to defend me. It was interesting...

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Blaze is only really good against armor or other ships that are Human (UE, Independents, Renegades), Voinian, or Emalghan. They just have too short a range for the crescent, but Phase weaponry works wonderfully there.

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Neutron cannons are the most destructive cannons in the known universe. However, it's hard to get your hands on them so early that you already don't have phase turrets, wich are in a word excellent.

So the neutroun cannons are the best IF you can get them, IF you have the space and IF you want to waste a turret spot for a cannon.

Phase turret is the best turret IMHO. But, as has been noted before, they don't work against voinians. Against anything else, they rock.

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Originally posted by ComputerLizard:
**Neutron cannons are the most destructive cannons in the known universe. However, it's hard to get your hands on them so early that you already don't have phase turrets, wich are in a word excellent.

So the neutroun cannons are the best IF you can get them, IF you have the space and IF you want to waste a turret spot for a cannon.

Phase turret is the best turret IMHO. But, as has been noted before, they don't work against voinians. Against anything else, they rock.

ComputerLizard

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Every bit of that sounds good to me!

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All this talk of weapon choice, the strengths and weaknesses of each weapon type and how much space they take up... it reminds me of the articles I used to read in Autoduel Quarterly, published by Steve Jackson Games.

ADQ was a magazine all about Car Wars, a table-top wargame set in 2033 where law and order have broken down in the US, and gangs of hijackers rule the roads. All cars, trucks and buses come with weapons such as machine guns, rocket launchers and minedroppers. Missions typically involved hauling a cargo or escorting a convoy. Further, autoduelling - fighting someone else vehicle against vehicle is legal in most states, either outside city limits or in purpose-built arenas.

Advanced play involved designing your own duelling machine, choosing body style, engine size, tyres, weapons, ammo supply, armour (sorry - no shields), accessories and personal equipment. To many people I think that designing a really good car was almost as satisfying as playing the game.

Unfortunately, Steve Jackson Games pulled the plug on Car Wars in the nineties, but there are still a lot of Car Wars fan sites out there on the Web. Look it up... I think some of you guys would love that game!

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Phase turrets are the best, in my opinion. But I'll mix Emalghia Cannons with the phase turrets when I run the UE military missions. That way I can charge Voinian ships, instead of slowly sniping them, when my UE back up is sure to get slagged.

What is the Monty Python? Is that anything like matching speeds with a pursuing enemy ship in such a way as that they never fire rocket or turret while I slowly take them down with my swivel phase cannons? I use this when I'm faced with a much larger ship(example: Zachit Arada(me ;)) vs. Voinan carrier).

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Originally posted by TIE187:
What is the Monty Python? Is that anything like matching speeds with a pursuing enemy ship in such a way as that they never fire rocket or turret while I slowly take them down with my swivel phase cannons? I use this when I'm faced with a much larger ship(example: Zachit Arada(me;) ) vs. Voinan carrier).

Sounds about right.

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