Seriously, this is the most insane ship I've ever seen. I do feel that players that won't experience her awesomness will be missing out on something hillariously fun. And it may just be the most Klignon design created in the game as well. The Mat'Ha looks like something that the ship designers of the shows would have no doubts about putting on air. If there are real Klingons in the galaxy, I'm sure they'd make a Mat'ha.
This ship is that awesome. But how it looks is only the beginning, there's much more to come. The "nose" spinal cannon, man that thing is evil. When you fire it, it makes this deep *POM POM POM* sound and the entire screen shakes from the feedback, hell I think my monitor started shaking on my desk as well. :P You can almost feel it blowing up chunks the size of a space shuttle with each hit to the enemy's hull. I can imagine a Klingon General maniacally laughing out loud as he holds himself to the armrests of his chair as the whole ship shakes like an earthquake while he's watching the enemy ship blown to pieces on the viewscreen.
Then the setup:
Consoles -
5/
3/
2, awesome.
Boff layout -
XXXX XX TRIBBLE XX XX, awesome x 100.
Now I don't bother much with T6 ships scaling hull and stuff, but if a Raptor has a 61k hull and 10-11k shields on level 51, I call that awesome. The Mat'Ha also doesn't suffer from the borked axis problems the other raptors have, I personally love how it handles.
But having a cloaking device + 5 tacitcal consoles + 5 fwd. weapons + nose cannon = total anihilation. The alpha strike from Gre'thor. I'm being serious, if you time firing of the nose cannon just right, nothing can survive an opening alpha from this raw, untamed, wild beast. I call mine VeStargh (War Targ) :P.
It's like the introduction about Mr.Goodkat from Lucky Number Slevin:
"
- Mat'Ha's in town!
- What's a Mat'Ha?
- It shows, people die, it vanishes. " :P
This is indeed a ship every Klingon warrior can be proud of. If you're having doubts or second thoughts, think no more - get one! The moment the screen starts shaking as you watch hulls vaporize in mere seconds alone is worth all the hussle. Embrace the Math'Ha, warriors!
Qapla'!
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You are absolutely right. Every Klingon needs to get a Mat'Ha. I haven't found the optimal settings for it yet but once you get the T5 trait firing on the side of a Vaadwaur Heavy Artillery ship with the disruptor cannon, CRF3 and HYT (for the T5 proc) is fun to watch. The side shield will drop almost immediately and then you will see the HP's just melt away. It will not have to time to warp away. This is by far to most Klingon ship in the game.
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I'm sure your DPS is great, but as Kahless said, "a petaQ with high system mastery is still a petaQ." (Well, he should have said it...!)
No PVP, no end-game worth playing. I would spend on a ship to look at it? I can run patrol missions faster, buy a ship to get through game faster because the gameplay is boring? eh
When you maneuver she purrs like a kitty and spits fire like a Red Dragon.
It was an epiphany and I highly recommend it. Finally somewhat worthy of a real Klingon.
PEW PEW PEW! is so dated .... POM POM POM! is where the future is.