OK, ready. Rhineland has gunboats. You fight them numerous times and they aren't worth modding. Kusari has some too. I don't remember what they look like. If you want a good shot of a Bretonia gunboat look on Freelancer box. On the cover, I think on the inside flap too, there is a ship you can't fly unless you mod it in. When you see it you'll know it. It looks like a fish like the rest of Bretonia's ships.

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what are the gunboats for actually?..

they're slow, weak again't any vhf, don't carrry deadly missiles..


the humpback should be called a gunboat..

Gunboats are basically air artillery. They are perhaps slow, but they give out a whole damn load of firepower, which is their greatest asset. Their not like a battleship, which is slow and heavy and has a spread out kill radius, but a concentrated 1 direction heavy weapon thing.

Personally i thought the Bretonia Gunboat patrols were damn cool...until i took one on and single handedly obliterated it, a crusader squadron and all the turrets on the battleship. Their guns are remarkably unimpressive, which kind of goes with the "big ships are poo" theme freelancer's storyline bases itself on...

-Liberty has LF, HF, HF(Juni's), Fr, Cruiser, Battleship, Dreadnought
-Kusari has LF, HF, HF(Blood Dragon version)Fr, Gunboat, Destroyer, Battleship
-Rheinland has LF, HF, Fr, Gunboat, Cruiser, and Battleship
-Bretonia has LF, HF, Fr, Gunboat, Destroyer, and Battleship
-Bounty Hunters have LF, HF, VHF
-Civilians has LF(SF), LF(ST), LF(SB ), LF(Hawk), HF, VHF
-Pirates have LF, HF, Fr
-Order has VHF, Battleship
-Corsairs have LF, HF, VHF(but just to show how maneuverable the Titan is, it's listed as CO_FREIGHTER...lol)
-Border Worlds has LF, HF, VHF, Fr
-Nomads have Interceptor, Gunboat, Battleship

So no, Liberty doesn't have a gunboat, but they do have two extra classes in the form of Juni's defender and the "dreadnought"

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Edited by - NukeIt on 26-05-2003 06:12:18

Maybe gunship has a living quarters for several crew..

a cruiser has a bit more..

and a battleship even has an entertainment bar..

they could had at least made it that we could sort of bring the shields down or something, but need lots of torp to blow one up..(just like in wing commander, remember?)

Bretonia, Kusari, Nomad, Rheinland, all have gunboats. Enough said.

isn't the dreadnought exactly the same as the battleship?

Yep...

The proper definition of a "dreadnought" is a battleship which has a main armament of guns all of the same caliber.

The first ship that defined the "dreadnought" is of course the British battleship HMS Dreadnought, which was launched in 1906. All the battleships built after the HMS Dreadnought to the same concept are consequently also known as "dreadnoughts", including BBs such as the German Bismarck-class, the Japanese Yamato-class and the U.S. Iowa-class.

And actually the Gunboats are faster than any other fighter in the game.

You know the mission, where you

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escape from Bretonnia, and you and Tobias have to fend off those two gunboats near the Jump Gate? I was flying with the normal 80 speed, and the gunboats distance was increasing when it was flying straight away from me. It wasn't so fast it would have been afterburning, just a little faster. Like 100 speed or something.

Also, during mission 10 I scanned a Rheinland Gunboat, and it said something about a fast and agile support firing vessel...

Dah. The ship desciptions say very much that isn't true. For example the dagger is "the only good choice for anyone who wants to survive in the border worlds" or something like that.
Anyway Kusari gunboats look like... well, boats. With those characteristic "sails" in the back that all Kusari ships have.

Kusari gunboats reminded me of a knife blade... when compared to a (proportionally) smaller kusari BS the nose and midsection is thinner.

Also u can checkout Reynen's Mod since you can get gunboats crusiers BS and dreadnaughts

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damn I was hoping for house corperations to have VHF but someone said that house corperations have gunboats to replace them. Oh well.

the kussari gunboat looks basicaly like a boat with a pagonda, sails and a ww2
u-boat cannon on it. pretty cool though.