The Punisher is not ugly, it fits perfectly into the TIE family and really gets the "long-range heavy bomber" message across.
For me, the ugliest ship is the E-Wing, it has a weird shape and the gun over the canopy is the dumbest thing ever... "yes, let's make the pilot blind himself with every shot, what can possibly go wrong?"
Shadowcaster for me. It is too bright and smooth for me
The K-Wing is terrible. It's ungainly and awkward looking, and on top of that it's a horrendous design that features a ball turret that sits below the wingline, leaving its effective firing arc ridiculously impeded for no discernible reason.
But I give the TIE Punisher lower grades because the design is both hideous, and... boring. Oh look. We made a TIE Bomber with some extra tubes for no reason. It's both ugly, and stupid. And for that, it wins "Worst ship in X-Wing".
After them, it's the ARC, because it looks like a metal dragonfly was crossbred with Toucan Sam. Then they put cartoonishly huge cannons on it. It's so ugly that everyone who likes it should consider saving their next month's miniatures budget for an eye exam.
What on earth would make the Punisher an ugly ship? Seriously? To me it sounds more like 'I didn't get my gunboat so I hate the punisher with all my guts, lets vote it ugliest ship ever because it is not the gunboat'.
Grow up people.
Seriously, what on earth are you talking about? From where comes that diatribe against the gunboat, that I don't recall anyone in this thread even mentioning?
What most people dislike from the TIE Punisher is that it is The Homer of Star Wars ships. Add more of everything, even if it looks ridiculous.
It's basically the TIE concept jumping the shark.
That's what I like about the Punisher... the fact that it reuses components from other ships makes it quite realistic. "Hey guys, we need a long-range heavy bomber for our fleet operations, think you can come up with something fast and cheap?"
The fact that it uses mostly the same spare parts as TIE Bombers and probably loads ordnance in similar amounts (ie. one pod takes the same amount as one bomber) makes planning inventory on a carrier much easier.
@VaeVictis - the ARC looks much better when the cannons are mounted next to the hull, they don't look out of place any more. I'll post photos of my conversion as soon as I touch up the wings.
Edited by costiThe E-Wing is dead sexy, y'all. The worst is a difficult choice between the Y-Wing and the Hound's Tooth.
Hound's Tooth. Final Answer.
K-wing hands down. It looks like a ship designed by me when I was 5 years old, sticking cannons, turrets and missiles everywhere just because I could.
What on earth would make the Punisher an ugly ship? Seriously? To me it sounds more like 'I didn't get my gunboat so I hate the punisher with all my guts, lets vote it ugliest ship ever because it is not the gunboat'.
Grow up people. It's not ugly per se, it perfectly fits with the design of all the other imperial craft, it is a more powerful bomber, it is even symmetrical unlike the bomber.
Agreed. I like the TIE Punisher. Unlike the gun boat, it looks like a TIE and looks like it belongs in the imperial arsenal. The TIE Punisher is what Lucas Arts should have came up with way back when they made TIE Fighter.
The Starviper and Hounds Tooth certainly aren't pretty but I have to go with the Ghost . This is Disney's new hot ship in Rebels. It is a great ship game wise in X-wing and yet, a boxy uninteresting ship is the best they could come up with? Really? This ship should be amazing looking, not boring to the point of ugly. It is disappointingly ugly. With that said, FFG did a good job bringing the source material to life. Sadly, the source material wasn't worth bringing to life.
The K-Wing is terrible. It's ungainly and awkward looking, and on top of that it's a horrendous design that features a ball turret that sits below the wingline, leaving its effective firing arc ridiculously impeded for no discernible reason.But I give the TIE Punisher lower grades because the design is both hideous, and... boring. Oh look. We made a TIE Bomber with some extra tubes for no reason. It's both ugly, and stupid. And for that, it wins "Worst ship in X-Wing".After them, it's the ARC, because it looks like a metal dragonfly was crossbred with Toucan Sam. Then they put cartoonishly huge cannons on it. It's so ugly that everyone who likes it should consider saving their next month's miniatures budget for an eye exam.
I don't think the StarViper is ugly but it does look like a refugee from Babylon 5, not Star Wars.
Now that you point it out..... Shadows of the Empire did come out when B5 was on TV. Probably not a coincidence.
I don't get all the hate about Starviper. It looks like a predatory butterfly - graceful and deadly. It's clearly not a human design but it's certainly not ugly. For that matter ugly isn't bad if it's intentional. Aggressor looks like some kind of a giant space cockroach and I love the design even though I'd never call it pretty. Similarly YV-666 looks precisely how a triple deck freighter turned slave transport should look like. Graceless, lumbering and bulky. It looks rough and that's how it should look like.
In other words ugly and worst looking isn't remotely the same thing. I can forgive and even embrace ugly if there's a reason for it. I cannot forgive boring and uninspired. In that regard E-wing wins hands down. There's absolutely nothing special or memorable about it. It doesn't seem particularly menacing. It looks neither fast nor tough. It's neither ugly nor pretty. It looks... nondescript. Bland. Uninteresting. As far as miniatures go that's the greatest sin of all.
This is a tough one for me cause personally there is no ship in the game i hate for its looks. The only two ships that are kinda 'meh' for me are the Shadowcaster (which i love to fly) and the TIE Adv. Prototype (which i hardly fly).
The K-wing is bad. There's no cohesiveness to the design, like it was made of a random assortment of ship parts from a mix-and-match grab bag.
The ghost is the worst IMO because of the missed opportunity. The designers behind the show had so much creative freedom to make a new unique ship that would be the hub of many adventures, and they best they came up with is this boxy bland diamond. The interior is set up like the Serenity from Firefly more or less, but the outside is uninspired. It feels very designed-by-committee, where they needed it to have X, Y, and Z features, but didn't care about the aesthetics of those features working together.
Also the Jumpmaster. The flat arc seems so pointless.
anyone who says Starviper has no taste and should be force choked.
JM5K. Freakin' flying toilets. Ugly in looks, ugly for the game.
For me it's the Shadow caster.
That thing looks like some Star Trek stuff.
E-Wing
Agreed. I like the TIE Punisher. Unlike the gun boat, it looks like a TIE and looks like it belongs in the imperial arsenal. The TIE Punisher is what Lucas Arts should have came up with way back when they made TIE Fighter.
There is some obsession with the gunboat here. A few comments on your post:
The E wing has got to be the ugliest ship in my opinion. It just dosent feel Star Wars like to me, it looks more like a ship you would see in battle star galatica or old Star Trek. Additionally, my mind won't let me believe that the e wing is the evolution of a x wing, the e wing looks to predate the x wing, and I would guess it was very old.
All the other ships mentioned might not be exciting but there certainly logical, the hounds tooth and ghost are both freighters and look the part.
I'm suprised how many people mentioned the star viper, it's very cool looking and draws allt of attention at my local shop from non x wing players.
Agreed. I like the TIE Punisher. Unlike the gun boat, it looks like a TIE and looks like it belongs in the imperial arsenal. The TIE Punisher is what Lucas Arts should have came up with way back when they made TIE Fighter.
There is some obsession with the gunboat here. A few comments on your post:
- The gunboat has nothing to do with the TIE Punisher. They aren't remotely the same kind of ship. Perhaps you mean the missile boat? (That is a totally different ship)
- The gunboat isn't the only imperial ship that doesn't look like a TIE.
- TIE Fighter (that introduced the TIE Defender and the Missile Boat) had a story line where it justifies the use of non-Sienar fighters. It isn't arbitrary. Even if they had refurnished the TIE Punisher with SLAM, tractor beam, and faster engines to face the traitor imperial forces in the storyline, it wouldn't make any sense, because these traitors controlled Sienar production lines and... exactly... the TIE Punisher is made by Sienar.
- TIE Fighter got a lot of criticism for the TIE Defender. Back then, it was said it was pure power creep with uninspired design because of its third panel concept. What do you think people would have said if they added also the TIE Punisher?
Cygnus is an Imperial ship manufacturer. The X-Wing by Incom was to also be Imperial until the design team defected to the Rebellion. What people don't like is the non-TIE design, which is silly in personal criticism. Most importantly, it was mostly a ******* joke by Lucas just like the Nazi caricature in general.
Regardless the Gunboat and Advanced TIE Bomber filled two completely different roles. You can't compare a heavy bomber to a assault fighter.
I do not know how it looks in model form yet, but the U-Wing really rubs me the wrong way. It is not a bad looking ship per-say, but it looks like a bad kit bash between the X and Y-Wings. This does not really go with the "rebels" theme. If you look at the original trilogy, all the rebel ships and fighters are completely different from one and another. The A-Wing looks nothing like the B-Wing, X-wing or Y-Wing. Each has a unique look, nothing like the other. On the imperial side I assume they have the infrastructure to have a standardize build of the TIE. It just does not fit the usual ship scheme of the rag tag rebel group. (It is also something I appreciated about Star Wars vs Star Trek as well. It seems like every Federation ship is kit bashed from another in someway.) The T-70 is forgiven because by the time of The Force Awakens, the infrastructure for the New Republic has had time to be set up, and the X-Wing itself proved to be successful.
It moves well in the trailers for Rogue One, and looks decent enough, but it is a bad direction in making new ships that I hope Disney does not continue.
I do not know how it looks in model form yet, but the U-Wing really rubs me the wrong way. It is not a bad looking ship per-say, but it looks like a bad kit bash between the X and Y-Wings. This does not really go with the "rebels" theme. If you look at the original trilogy all the rebel ships and fighters are completely different from one and another. The A-Wing looks nothing like the B-Wing, X-wing or Y-Wing. Each has a unique look, nothing like the other. On the imperial side I assume they have the infrastructure to have a standardize build of the TIE. It just does not fit the usual ship scheme of the rag tag rebel group. (It is also something I appreciated about Star Wars vs Star Trek as well. It seems like every Federation ship is kit bashed from another in someway.) The T-70 is forgiven because by the time of The Force Awakens, the infrastructure for the New Republic has had time to be set up.
It moves well in the trailers for Rogue One, and look decent, but it is a bad direction in making new ships that I hope Disney does not continue.
Exactly. That is perhaps why the E-wing looks wrong also for me. It looks like someone disassembled an x-wing model and then put it all back together with some glue, only to find out that he ended with 2 engines, 2 wings and 1 cannon unused.
I do wonder how much of this is also Member Berries.... For example would the B-Wing be on the list if it was not in the Original Trilogy? Are the people who don't mind the Punisher people that played the computer game that had it in years ago?
I played that game like crazy for years, and the TIE Punisher (TIE Bomber tier 3) in that game was as ugly and even more worthless than in this one.
I don't even know which game we are talking about and still like the punisher, so it goes the other way as well.
I do wonder how much of this is also Member Berries.... For example would the B-Wing be on the list if it was not in the Original Trilogy? Are the people who don't mind the Punisher people that played the computer game that had it in years ago?
I played that game like crazy for years, and the TIE Punisher (TIE Bomber tier 3) in that game was as ugly and even more worthless than in this one.
I don't even know which game we are talking about and still like the punisher, so it goes the other way as well.
A not totally bad rip-off the Age of Empires II: Age of Kings game, modded to look Star Wars.
Edited by AzrapseSo many to choose from. The JM5K wins hands down though.
Ugliest Imperial ship is the VT-49 Decimator. Also the Firespray, have never liked that thing. Come to think of it, nearly every ship in the scum and villainy faction. Worst rebel ship is the E-wing, just a fugly little ship.
Ghost
