Ship Showdown 2954 - Phase 1 Contest

A daily Tana pilot here, and by far my most often flown ship for a majority of content.

If you want a relatively cheap ship that can do relatively anything. This is it.

You wont find another ship with as many guns, with the larger weapons capacitor and massive number of missiles, and a full interior.

Now, she takes a while to get used to in terms of flying, but if you can master it, she is more maneuverable than MANY ships in the game.

In vertical mode

turning on the Y axis, or Pitch is considerably faster, allowing for quick dives under the belly of an enemy

Yaw is considerably slower, so jousting enemies are more difficult to hit

seeing your munitions come from above and below makes targeting more difficult than most other ships where munitions come from left and right In horizontal mode

The opposites are all true

Pitch is considerably slower

Yaw is considerably faster

You have access to a VERY fast VTOL mode

Interestingly, in Horizontal, you can use the VTOL to rise above a target and hit their tops while they attempt to pitch in your direction. The VTOL is very fast with boost and throws many people off.

When it comes to weapons, its your preference, a mix of size 3s and size 2s depending on your modular wingtip attachment. Her firepower in the size range is unmatched.

This ship also has a 15,000 weapons capacitor (same as a MK II), most ships of its size such as the arrow and glad are only 4500. This allows quite the number of shots when fully kitted out with lasers. Personally I fly with the dual distortions on the nose and quad cannons from the Toshimas, or I upgrade to dual quarrelers on the Gilroys and man oh man is that a blast.

Not to mention the many, MANY missiles on this thing, and a co-pilot can use the missiles (they can even fire missiles in reverse if they have that key bound)

All in all its what you make of it, there's some weird hitboxes on the ship and sometimes she feels like paper (but they all do when the server syncs up just right/wrong)

Lastly, you wont find anything with this sort of firepower that ALSO has a cabin, bed, shower, interior weapons rack, and a place to store your bodies, er, I mean.... packages.

I cannot implore you enough to go out and get one when you have the chance, they are cheap to purchase in game as well, Its a good time to be a Reliant owner.

Edit: forgot to mention that when the remote turrets are working properly... again... The co-pilot can actually not only fire missiles in reverse, but the guns as well. allowing you a full 270ish degree of firepower. Back then I would do lasers on the Toshimas and let my co-pilot go ham wild while I managed the wonky flight mechanics.