Tell Me About the Chieftan

[Pixxel Wizzard]

I keep hearing about this Chieftan and I'm curious. I don't know much about ED ships. My two best ships are the Vulture and the Asp X. I'm sitting on 50+ million and would like to buy a new ship. I'm friendly with the Alliance.

So, tell me, what is it about the Chieftan that makes it worth consideration? Cargo capacity? Fighting prowess? Defensive capabilities? Speed achievements? Jack of all trades? What?

Thank you in advance.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

No idea. Lol

I'm curious too. I didn't get a chance to use beta.

Tempted to sell my Corvette to buy it if it's any good. Or just earn money to buy it. I have 50~mil too.
I had more, but I spent it on crashing my iCourier in to canyons. Lol

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

 

[Dommarraa]

I keep hearing about this Chieftan and I'm curious. I don't know much about ED ships. My two best ships are the Vulture and the Asp X. I'm sitting on 50+ million and would like to buy a new ship. I'm friendly with the Alliance.

So, tell me, what is it about the Chieftan that makes it worth consideration? Cargo capacity? Fighting prowess? Defensive capabilities? Speed achievements? Jack of all trades? What?

Thank you in advance.

Its very much like a FAS, but not quite as good, or maybe a bit better. Depends who you ask.
It has brilliant fixed weapon convergence if you are a combat ninja
It is probably the sexiest looking ship in existence

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/400580-Chieftain-vs-FAS-(nearly-same-setup-fittings)

 

[CMDR Soma Cruz]

-It's a very capable medium combat ship, at least on par if not better than Vulture

-it's a joy to fly

-that sweet boost sound

-it looks so clean

 

[Mysturji]

It's a heavy fighter. Medium pad, well armed, well armoured, lots of utility slots, 3 military compartments. Pretty fast too, decent jump range, fun to fly and looks good.
IIRC the biggest internal compartment is class 5, so not big on shields, though plenty of room for SCBs & SBs. Not much cargo space. Would make a decent mission-runner
Turns like an iceberg, though. Be careful landing on medium to high gravity worlds.

 

[nosleepdemon]

From a purely aesthetic perspective, it ranks somewhere between Diamondback Explorer and Adder/Hauler - not quite the ugliest ship in the game but probably enough to medal in the ugly olympics. Those engine cells. Holy Jesus. I didn't realise we had traversed from form & function all the way into the generic Star Citizen pop--sci-fi territory.

 

[jonesskill]

I keep hearing about this Chieftan and I'm curious. I don't know much about ED ships. My two best ships are the Vulture and the Asp X. I'm sitting on 50+ million and would like to buy a new ship. I'm friendly with the Alliance.

So, tell me, what is it about the Chieftan that makes it worth consideration? Cargo capacity? Fighting prowess? Defensive capabilities? Speed achievements? Jack of all trades? What?

Thank you in advance.

Theres two types of chieftain that i have flyied in BETA:

The first version are fat, with a huge drift and weak, basically a copy of the FAS but much more fat, (Merge the Cutter and one FAS in one ship).
The second version are much better, Agile fast and with a small drift - But yet, i think she needs more defense (Shields and unitily slots) - But, even if they don't increase those two points the second version worth the money - I'ts very nice in combat.

In the anothers ROLES she is like any another combat vessel (Exclude corvette from this list- because she is not a combat vessel) - So, not to good.

 

[Iskariot]

I keep hearing about this Chieftan and I'm curious. I don't know much about ED ships. My two best ships are the Vulture and the Asp X. I'm sitting on 50+ million and would like to buy a new ship. I'm friendly with the Alliance.

So, tell me, what is it about the Chieftan that makes it worth consideration? Cargo capacity? Fighting prowess? Defensive capabilities? Speed achievements? Jack of all trades? What?

Thank you in advance.

The Chieftain seems to be an unusually agile medium combat hull.

I will buy one for sure.
I love the look of the ship.
And the sounds of it are just marvelous.

 

[Tobasco da Gama]

Its very much like a FAS, but not quite as good, or maybe a bit better. Depends who you ask.
It has brilliant fixed weapon convergence if you are a combat ninja

Notably, unlike the FAS, there are no rank requirements for buying a Chieftain.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Medium-sized, high maneuverability, Alliance-version of the FAS with an extra class 4 military slot.
Looks like a dog taking a dump when landed.
Hardpoint placement is mainly along the ship's centerline, and convergence is pretty good.
Overall a great ship for.. for.. something.

 

[Sylow]

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Turns like an iceberg, though. Be careful landing on medium to high gravity worlds.

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I would've very much agreed, wouldn't that part be there. It actually turns quite fast, but it drifts crazily. So it's rather easy to keep an enemy in sights. Thanks to this and very compact hardpoint placement, it's one of the best ship, perhaps even -the- best ship for fielding fixed weapons.
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But while it turns around like crazy, it makes drift racers look like on rails. The thrusters were improved at a later stage of the beta, but it just moved them from "abysmal" to "acceptable". So some maneuvers in this ship feel like you have FAOff, while actually still having it on, and yes, on high gravitation worlds you're better watch your ship closely.
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The other drawaback of the ship is comparatively weak shields. They are not utterly bad, but for a ship of its size and pricetag, they are on the lower side. And while the ship on paper seems to be a reasonably good hulltank, once shields are down it feels like half of the ship is made of cockpit... better bring some good life support, you'll use it often.
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So unless there were noticeable changes between the end of the beta and the last patch, the Chieftain is far from becoming the new "top dog" ship, but will have to settle for being one of several reasonably good combat ships. Despite all of this, i plan to get me one when it becomes available.
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It might be a sidegrade to the FAS and be inferior to the FDL, but it's still a fun ride, with it's own touch. Also, i have several enforcer cannons in storage, this is the first ship where i can actually put them to good use and i can't resist the temptation...
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[Daniel Cloudsifter]

It's a heavy fighter. Medium pad, well armed, well armoured, lots of utility slots, 3 military compartments. Pretty fast too, decent jump range, fun to fly and looks good.
IIRC the biggest internal compartment is class 5, so not big on shields, though plenty of room for SCBs & SBs. Not much cargo space. Would make a decent mission-runner
Turns like an iceberg, though. Be careful landing on medium to high gravity worlds.

After the Beta closed, they announced further buffs to the Chieftain. One of those buffs was the increase of one of the size 5 slots to size 6.

 

[Mohrgan]

I am an FAS Commander. I've hardly flown anything else since the FAS has been released. On paper the aChief seems like just an FAS from Lakon, buy don't be fooled. The two ships have very different flight dynamics. The aChief seems to spins on it's own axis much faster than, but it's thrusters aren't as strong.

The Beta 3 version of the aChief was a beast. Even it's less than stout shields were forgiven for it's agility, and convergence. During the "End of 3.0 Beta" livestream, Sandro remarked that the aChief would have it's mass trimmed, and a c5 internal swapped for c6. I have yet to see that confirmed in print somewhere, but I expect those changes to be included om the 27th.

With those changes the Alliance Chieftain will be an awesome combat ship, without those changes, it will only be a great one.

 

[Sylow]

After the Beta closed, they announced further buffs to the Chieftain. One of those buffs was the increase of one of the size 5 slots to size 6.

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Seriously? I missed that. With one class 6 slot available, this ship will have quite good shields!
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[nathdixon92]

After the Beta closed, they announced further buffs to the Chieftain. One of those buffs was the increase of one of the size 5 slots to size 6.

I'd like to see written confirmation on that Class 6 from Fdev tbh. I watched the stream and remember Sandro saying it but he did seem a little unsure.

 

[Judz]

Tell Me About the Chieftan​

Its a spaceship that flies and goes pew pew. Is that enough? Its nice as well.

 

[Iskariot]

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Seriously? I missed that. With one class 6 slot available, this ship will have quite good shields!
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That would be great, because I felt the shields were a bit weak, and I am not much of a hull tanker.

 

[Pixxel Wizzard]

-It's a very capable medium combat ship, at least on par if not better than Vulture

If I have a Vulture (fully A rated, too) should I be spending so much money on Chieftan? Sounds like a lot more money for a similar experience, if what you say is true.

 

[Eldragon]

I'd like to see written confirmation on that Class 6 from Fdev tbh. I watched the stream and remember Sandro saying it but he did seem a little unsure.

Agreed. The Class 6 pushes it from "Yawn" to "Yowza!". Going to be disappointed if it doesn't get the size 6 in Live.

 

[alex192004]

If I have a Vulture (fully A rated, too) should I be spending so much money on Chieftan? Sounds like a lot more money for a similar experience, if what you say is true.

The vulture has two large hardpoints, the chieftain has 2 large, 3 small on top with excellent convergence and 1 medium in the bottom. in firepower the chieftain is far superior to the vulture, in maneuverability maybe the vulture wins, i´m not sure about that.