YAY! someone mentiond the A-9 Vigilance! Friggin fast as an A-wing, armed better too (swivel cannon on bottom plus the 2 cannons and missiles) and it looks freaking awesome. Mentioned only once or twice in EU, once Dark Empire and again in Rebel stand. Awesome ships.

Okay, I think the award for most under-used starfighter of the entire EU has to go to drumroll:

The Cygnus XG-1 Starwing Assault Gunboat. They were all over the place in the X-wing games, and it's a nice design that makes a lot of sense, but all I've ever seen in the books is a throwaway reference in Wedge's Gamble (or maybe it was Rogue Squadron, it's been a while since I read them) to Tycho's shuttle being modified to simulate one in training. One of the biggest omissions in the series from a starfighter standpoint...

Whoa, I found a whole thread for fighter-tech freaks like myself! Yay!:D I have friends!

They should really make a new one of those games...updated with Yuuzhan Vong and Episode III content....

Amen, General, amen! Glad I'm not the only one who longs to have a skip-blasting video game. Seriously. It would just make my day to hear the words "Skips on my tail, Red Five!" on a P.C. game.

Okay, about snubfighters:

1. K-Wings are awesome. Eighteen missile holders, plus a dual-laser and a quad-laser? Wow.

2. E-Wings are basically heavy X-Wings, but still very striking in appearance. They're probably one of the coolest designs we've seen in the comics.

3. A-9 Vigilance Interceptors were cool for their hit-and-run, rapid-flying capabilities.

4. Howlrunners are also cool. Super-intense, super-fast....what more can one ask for?

Signing off for now!

They should really make a new one of those games... updated with Yuuzhan Vong and Episode III content....

In fact, why not make a few more?

So, it doesn't run on new operating systems

It works fine on my XP.

I think that TIE Fighter was first released in '95, then again in '98.

So, it doesn't run on new operating systems.

And how I loved that game......sniff

Oh, I love the Imperial Gunboat!

Dual laser cannons, dual ion cannons, and a heck-load of Proton Torps!

A lethal ship in its day.

I love the mission from TIE Fighter where you are dispatched in a Gunboat to take out a Nebulon-B Frigate on your own.

Now that takes some flying!

Gun boats are usually registered as CAPITAL SHIPS because of their fire power and there are several mentions of them in the Thrawn trilogy and the vision of the future]:)

**If i remember rightly that the gunboat compliment used on the imperial star destroyers is 6. Stackpole bases an X-wing simulator test ON the redemption mission in the X-wing games so if stackpole likes playing the xwing tie fighter games (he tips his hat to the creators of the game in his 1st book rogue squadron) how come he dosent use the gunboat more rather than give it 1 mention in a passing conversation.???? **

I believe it is because it is not much of a dogfighter as more of a support craft it wouldn't be as entertaining to describ e shooting them down

From what I've read, and I'm still not sure, the W-wing is a Mon-cal design, although it shares a few features like general shape with the Preybird fighter. The NR's first attempt at a stealth fighter.(Preybird Description)

As far as I cant tell, it might be RPG. I still can't be sure, because I've seen all sorts of different information on it. Here's a description of the W-wing similiar to the one I remember:

http://hangarbay.tripod.com/td -wwing.html

Although, that image is a little weird. The one I've seen 2 or 3 times is this one:

http://members.tripo d.com/~ROJ25/starfighters/w.gif

Heres a page that uses that pic as well:

http://www.eyeo nstarwars.com/trilogy/vehicle/w_wing.html

Hope this helps. I'm really not sure. One of the above sites said something about not even reaching prototype stage, which may explain its rarity, but I'm not sure if its just the brainchild of some graphics artist.