Kusari has gunboats, Liberty doesn't. Corsairs and Outcasts have to make due with fighters.

Too bad you can't buy battleships or even gunboats. Its not like we're gonna buy a battleship and reek havoc on the galaxy destroying all innocent life making way for our own evil dictatorship...

"You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you cant pick your friend's nose."

Edited by - Drunk Ewok on 26-04-2003 06:00:16

The nomads have gun boats too. And heck they are very deadly..
Rheinland got gunboats too

..and I just wonder, where do I buy one of those?...

Nomads have Battleships, not Gunboats.

Pirates don't have any gunboats at all as Nephilim said, only the main houses ( other than Liberty ) have the resources for them.

Edited by - Tasiin on 26-04-2003 06:29:35

The nomads do have gunboats. You encounter them near the end of the SP campaign.

What is a gunboat? A gunboat is basically a small transport stuffed to the gills with gun turrets and armor, a small combatant that does not require a lot of manpower to run. Doesn't look like something that only Houses can afford.

Personally I don't think it would hurt to have those in the game as a player-flyable ship-- At least as heavily-armed variants of the available transports like the Drone, the Clydesdale, the Humpback, etc. at the cost of significantly decreasing the available cargo hold space and maneuverability and maybe speed.

I'm...fairly sure that those were battleships, but I did finish SP a long time ago. Could be wrong.

there are nomad gunboats and battleships. i think it's kind of hard to confuse a massive nomad battleship with a large gunboat. the gunboats just look like bloated fighters.

liberty do have gunboats i've seen them in the New York system

10'000 Lemmings can't be wrong

Quote Nephilim--"Kusari has gunboats, Liberty doesn't. Corsairs and Outcasts have to make due with fighters.

Are you sure that Liberty doesn't have gunboats? Because in SP, just before you jump to Magellan Dr. Van Pelt comes over the com and says that more ships are coming and calls them "Gunboats!". The whole front of the ships were just enormous cavities that were the guns used to destroy the station. The gunboats may have been the same design as the Liberty cruiser Unity ... could they be using the terms gunboats and cruisers interchangeably? I don't know, I have no idea what a gunboat--or even a cruiser is... but they do use the term in Liberty to refer to one of the ship types.

EDIT: 'Kay... I was completely wrong Dr. Van Pelt says "Oh my word! Cruisers!" ... he never mentions gunboats. :pout:






Edited by - gig on 29-04-2003 19:18:01

Edited by - gig on 29-04-2003 19:19:33

Gunboats generaly opperate in friendly areas, Cruisers opperate much further out

the nomads have both battleships and gunboats, although that is all ill say due to this NOT being the spoiler forum

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"Only the dead have seen the end of War."
- Plato

Yep nomads have gunboats. At the end of the SP campaign... SPOILER SPOILER
SPOILER SPOILER!!! DO NOT READ UNLESS YOUVE FINISHED THE SP CAMPAIGN!



actually this might not be a spoiler...im not sure. Anyways, after you get the power cell from the massive round nomad structure, and you leave that system through the jumphole, you fight off a bunch of nomads. Von Claussen comes and helps you out. Its there you fight off nomads, and then about 4 gunboats. Replay mission 12 i think.

i must have missed it (concentrated too much on not getting shot)

10'000 Lemmings can't be wrong

Nomads have gun boats.
Kusari gunboats are the best looking around.
Rheinland ones are rather thought.
Bretonia also have gun boats (or was that armoured transport??)

COrsairs and outcast need no gunboat, they have the Very heavy fighter class.

I wonder what gun boats are for?..They are so vulnerable..except for the nomads...