D'Kora, the most underrated ship in the game, running 4 different setups on it as an engineer, can heal, can tank and a viable 3rd hitter in a premade.

Fleet Excelsior. I'm still used to being able to transwarp everywhere.

I've been jumping back and forth between my Odyssey and my Chimera with the Chimera having a slight edge.

I don't have the Chimera but I suspect that, if I did, it would probably wind up being the ship that I wouldn't want to take my Tac toon out of!

A month or so ago, I would have sworn blind that my Mobius was the Alpha and the Omega. The strangest thing happened, I purchased the Steamrunner on a whim and couldn't believe how well she performed. Moves like a dream, tough as nails and packs a wallop. A couple of purple warp core engineers encourage the power levels to be ticking close to maximum.

Looks great from behind (and let's face it, that is what we spend the majority of our time looking at ... ) with the 45 degree engines.

I keep trying other ships, but have come back to the Steamrunner each time.

Excelsior. It's my warm blanket ship. So comforting and I'm always glad to have it.

Though I can't stand how it looks, for tanking I always find myself going back to my Odyssey and/or my Excelsior Retro-fit. I tend to get kind of bored and just try different builds on a ton of different ships and always seem to find my way back to the Excelsior, at least with my Engineering captains.

FED- T5 Excelsior <3 LOVE HER! <3

KDF - Breen Cruiser. She ugly to a point where shes AWESOME!!

But seriously it would be quite corking and oh so nice if my Gorn could, I dunno,...................hijack a Excelsior using Marauding...............maybe tractor someone else's Excelsior over the FED/KDF Zone border.

Have a word with the Tholians.

I'D LOOK AFTER IT!!!! I swear. =3

The Breen Chel Grett on my main. Since I got it, even though I've tried my other ships for various runs, I always go back to it. It's got a very nice balance between eng and tac/sci play- enough hull points for miracle worker to let me get and stay out of sticky situations, enough turn power not to feel like a whale, and is generally just a very nice ship with a solid boff and console layout.

However, I think that's largely because it has almost the same boff layout as my MVAM Escort, soon to be (Fleet) Advanced Escort, which was 'my return ship' for as long as I had that.


Even though I have an HEC, a Galaxy, A Sovereign and Mirror Sovvie, and a bunch of other T5 ships, I always go back to that configuration. The mix of tactical and science skills just feels right with my engineer main.



Conversely, for the longest time I didn't *have* that kind of ship for my sci alt. Oh, sure, she has a defiant retrofit (token version), a fleet recon, a patrol escort, the MVAM Escort, and an HEC, and a steamrunner and the mirror Advanced Escort/Patrol Escorts, but while fun, none of them ever really 'felt right' and I was always nervously shifting ships, trying to find the one that I liked the most. She even has the breen ship (all my chars do), but I don't end up flying it very long even though breensci is a very potent combo.


No, as it turns out, my 'one true ship' for my sci alt is in fact the Support Retrofit (ie: the Ambassador @ T5). It's a cruiser, sure, and I'd long been dissatisfied with cruiser gameplay, but it turns well enough to benefit from turn rate consoles, it has a solid non-fleet tier layout for boffs and consoles, and it's a very nice looking ship.

But what's really important is that it *plays* well. Whenever I'm on my non-engineers, I always feel far squishier and have more difficulty staying alive- but the ambassador has enough hull and shields to give me breathing room, and its engineer heavy focus lets me run enough skills that I can keep that hull and shields running, while entertaining builds I otherwise wouldn't.

Right now I'm running a boarding party 3 system disabling build (and also viral matrix), which while might otherwise not be of use due to the ease of countering boarding parties, becomes useful on a Sci who can subnuc the target before the shuttles hit.

It's still a work in progress mind, but in testing it's shown potential to be very useful, and very fun.