[X3TC] Heavy M6 Ships

[Aidyer]

I've looked around, thinking of buying one, and after looking at them I've come to these conculsions:

Argon Heavy Centaur: Balanced - Possibility
Boron Heavy Hydra: Lacking Firepower - Ruled out
Paranid Heavy Nemesis: High on firepower and speed, low on cargo space - Possibility
Split Heavy Dragon - I couldn't find one! What's it like?
Teladi Heavy Osprey - High on sheilds, low on speed - Ruled out

Of the Argon Ship, the Paranid Ship and the Split ship, which one is the best to purchase and why? And if you could tell me, what's the Split one's stats? Thanks

[theblackhunter]

The split ship is very fast (160~ m/s) with a pretty high powered weapons generator

[Aidyer]

Thanks, what sector can I buy one from?

[Catra]

Heavy Dragon:

12 frontal guns (8 main 4 turreted).

EBC upfront, which frees up all the energy for the turret to use the ion shard railgun, which really mauls m6 and up.

[Aidyer]

I see.. from what I've heard so far it seems like a good idea, what sector do they sell them from?

[Coruskane]

The Heavy Nemesis is a super ship, and I really like its looks but I never use it The cargo bay is just too small for energy cells.

The Heavy Centaur (preferably Heavy Centaur Prototype, if you can capture one) is nice. The Skiron is also very powerful (OTAS M6), but I don't like its looks.

I agree with above that the Heavy Dragon is very effective in the player hands. They are, at least, sold in Patriarch's Conclusion in the South East of the universe. In TC (but not AP) they are also sold in the split sector 2 gates north of Grand Exchange. (Zyarth's Dominion?).

If you have the means to board ships, then the Heavy Centaur Prototype and the Hyperion Vanguard are the best imo.

[Catra]

rhonkars trial

zyarths dominion

patriarchs conclusion

[Ripskar]

Rhonkar's Might, Zyarth's Dominion, Rhonkar's Trial, Patriarch's Conclusion.
There's also the OTAS Skiron from Legend's Home.
The Heavy Osprey is very good for certain purposes, able to take CIGs in all turrets...

[Aidyer]

Thanks guys, I'll get back on and compare the stats. Doing two missions in the space of five mins that gave 2.4M each really boosted my bank account

[Fiin]

Ive been really enjoying my Vidar too.

[Aidyer]

Got myself a Skiron, I like the looks of that.

What are the best weapons to set it up with, where do I put them, and why would they be a good choice?

[Rhox]

The first M6+ I bought was a Heavy Nemesis. After a quick test on it, I gave it free and parked it in Guidance Star to guard the gate. They're nice and good-looking, but the cramped cargobay really is a bugger. Best bet frommy point of view is a Heavy Centaur Prototype as it's reasonably faster than the standard version; you get it either by achieving the highest rank in the Plutarch or Jonferco corporation (which takes so long you might have a small fleet of M2's by then) or by boarding one with a M7M...

best regards,
Rhox

[Ripskar]

Got myself a Skiron, I like the looks of that.

What are the best weapons to set it up with, where do I put them, and why would they be a good choice?

Player ship, CIGs in the main battery for straight up punch.
PRGs in the turrets for fighter defence.
For some variation you can try PBG but expect friendly fire.
Thunderbolt Missiles will help deal with fighters, Firestorm Torpedoes for capitals.

[Aidyer]

Just Concussion Impulse Generators in the front? How many, all eight? I'll try it, afterall I don't know anything so what anyone suggests is definately worth trying

[Ripskar]

It's what I use, with weapon configurations to dial it down if I want to conserve energy. You've got 4 configs so 2, 4, 6 & 8.

[Aeshi]

I personally mounted all 8 slots with CIGs and just switched between a 4-gun weapon group and an 8-gun weapon group depending on the situation

I suppose if you really wanted you could swap some of the CIGs with Plasma Throwers if you wanted to lower the energy costs (plus that would give you a way of reliably hitting fighters that doesn't depend on the turrets)

[deca.death]

Just Concussion Impulse Generators in the front? How many, all eight? I'll try it, afterall I don't know anything so what anyone suggests is definately worth trying :P

Just 4, more is overkill. Try to get PBG for other 4. They have low energy requirements (really low) and high damage output. Very high. Drawback is short range. If not HEPT, but PBG is much better. Sold by pirates btw.

[Catra]

i like putting some IPGs in there for a more powerful punch against m6 and up: (IPG/CIG) 4/4 against m6 and 6/2 against m7.

for a more anti-fighter loadout, 6x HEPT and 2x PRG is good. though really the skiron isnt a good anti-fighter corvette, its more oriented towards anti-corvette/ anti-frigate.

[NeverSnake]

I've looked around, thinking of buying one

If you're only considering buying one my advice would be to avoid them. They're not terribly effective as they turn too slowly to get their main guns on fighters and are too weakly armed and shielded to dent a capital ship.

If you must have a corvette, then the various special ones (Vidar, Springblossom, Truelight Seeker, Hyperion, Xenon P) are really the ones to use as the class is sadly rather poorly balanced.

As an alternative, consider just saving up for an M7, especially if you can make 5mil in 5 minutes (even 2 mil per five minutes means you can buy one in a couple of hours of missions). Three or four times the price, but far more effective.

But to answer your original question, the stats of the Heavy Dragon are:

Top Speed: 161m/s
Turning: 2.56rpm
Cargo: 675XL
Shielding: 3x200Mj
Shield gen: 2,150
Laser Pool: 17,525
Laser gen: 491

8x Main guns and 4x gun in a single turret pointing up (can fire forward). Both mounting HEPT, CIG, IPG, EBC, PBE, ISR and PBG.

[Triaxx2]

Heavy M6's tend to run a much wider gamut of variance than the base models.

But I find that I don't like as wide of a variety of Heavies as I do lights. I mean, I love the base Centaur. But I despise the Heavy Centaur. I mean, most M2's can out turn it, but while an M2 can survive because it has heavy shields, the Heavy Centaur needs maneuverability to survive and it doesn't have it.

On the other hand the Heavy Dragon is utterly awesome, because I can roll in behind a target and dump 12x PBG's at it and incinerate just about anything.