I also tend to agree with NukeIt and not to discard all Coalition craft - some of'em are quite good (here I also agree on NukeIt's choice, though I would add Loki fighter)

there's not much info on the loki. I've only seen it in 2 missions, so it doesn't show up too much...

Reaper: $200,000,000.
Rockets: $100,000
The look on that pilot's face when you launch a full pod of screamers up his tailpipe: priceless

Reaper was a beautiful fighter...but so was almost all the SL ships. Long live Starlancer!

"We're almost there." - Jorg

still kinda wondering...DOES the hades have any guns? It seems pretty likely...I mean, kamovs have them and only use them when you're in the pilot seat.

Reaper: $200,000,000.
Rockets: $100,000
The look on that pilot's face when you launch a full pod of screamers up his tailpipe: priceless

Amen to that, major Striker!
As to guns in Hades, I guess we'll never find out, since we're not given the chance to fly it. theoretically, they could have them but, as in Kamovs, they shouldn't be of any good, since the torps are their primary weapon. I never saw any of the torp bombers shoot their guns.

well, in the ITAC info screen for it, it has the same armament as the Kamov: Light. Each side's smaller torp bomber is listed as having Medium armament. So I'm assuming that the armament refers to the guns, rather than the torps, because that's the only way a 2-shot torp bomber could outshoot a 4-shot one.

Reaper: $200,000,000.
Rockets: $100,000
The look on that pilot's face when you launch a full pod of screamers up his tailpipe: priceless

Nope Hades doesn't have any guns not even a rear turret! At least the stock one didn't have any. I once changed that by adding a reaper reat turret with type 3 gattling lasers but can't remeber if they ever shoot them.

S!

Well, to fly a Hades, just use SLEdit to swap the kamov with the hades, and play Mission 21. Hades doesn't have any guns, but it does have cloaking. Pity gamma doesn't know how to push the cloaking button.

Why make your own mistakes when someone else has already made them for you?
-Learn from the skeletons floating in the piranha pool: NO SWIMMING!

I knew they had something for defense..."hey, where's the fighter cover?!...I'm taking heat here!" I think I've just lost all pity for them when they die now... :/

shroud all the way, sure its weak, but that doesn't matter when the enemy can't hit you

hm... i have to think about this - i like the blindfires best when dealing with fighters, but when it comes to ion cannon encounters, i take nothing but a shroud and a full load of fuel pods. i dun care if its got weak armour and such. i can handle it. its got blindfire and a formidble laser cannon thingy. if no ion cannons, phoenix is best of them all. but early in the game, i'd get hold of the patriot or the reaper as fast as possible.