what's a good RPG game to play?

[Rhydderch Hael]

Escape Velocity: Nova is shareware and the third of its series. Registered buyers of EV:Nova also have access to free official plug-ins available of the prior incarnations of Escape Velocity.

I'll never forget taking on (and taking out) the Voinian Dreadnought with a heavily-modified UE Fighter in Escape Velocity: Override. My crate had the quest-granted cloaking device and was re-armed as a pure gunfighter using a trio of swivel phase cannons. Now, I know that Phase Cannons are weakest against Armor (and strongest against Shields) and taking on an armored Voinian is like attacking a Tiger tank with a welding torch— but Phase Cannons have the range and accuracy to keep the fighter at arm's length from the Voinian's hard-hitting Neutron Cannon battery.

Add a mercenary fleet, a lucky dice roll that put a random UE Carrier in the battle area, and add in the four UE Destroyers assigned to my mission, I was eventually able to cut into that Dreadnought's hull and set her off. In reality, all that support just made the inevitable a little quicker to come by: my fighter was fast enough to dart into gun range, scorch the paint a little, then clear out of the Neutron Cannon envelope with little (if any) damage.

And boy, the blast radius of that Dreadnought is huge. I tried to clear datum and still got nudged around by the shockwave.