The Chieftain [Elite Dangerous] | The Pilot Reviews 

Love these videos, keep up the good work!

The Chieftain is one of those ships that can outfight anything it can’t outrun, and outrun anything it can’t outfight.

I NEED this this just screams UNSC Pelican and I love the look

"Is anyone going to try to put shield reinforcements on this?" *raises hand*

"Windshield gets blown out more than a 70's hairdo" You can't beat lines like that. Kuddos.

So as a Krait pilot, I've seen enough of the Chieftain, Challenger, and Crusader in conflict zones to develop a deal of respect for them. They're the few ships that I look to see if they're is any other targets. Why? They're a pain to kill. Their firepower doesn't bother me, I don't get hit often, but the problem is... neither do they. At least compared to the amount of hits they can take from me. It's enough for me to stop and go "is there maybe an Asp or Python nearby?".

4 years later and here I am coming back to watching these epic videos even after I haven't played elite in 2+ years

I love that little comment at the end, "Hail to the Chief". And it's so true! Love this ship.

"cheap and nimble tricky frigate" is right up there with Poe's "silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain". Excellently crafted ❤

as a chieftain pilot, I approve this

C H I E F T A I N C H I E F T A I N C H I E F T A I N Real talk though, I subbed to this, and I can't belive I'm the 66th sub. This is a professional quality vid! It was an honor blowing stuff up with you CMDR! o7

I love your narrative man! You could sell a fricking Chieftain to the Thargoids and they'd buy them all! Lol

The Chieftain looks like the halo pelican if you put on a dark green color to it and put “UNSC” on it too

Dude, go work on television, i would watch animal kingdom with that voice. Also chieftain ftw. Made mine a bounty hunting and convoy destroyer.

Like someone mentioned before me, a nice top gear vibe. Weird references yet informative. Definitely got a like from me. I was blown away by the quality of the video after I saw your subscriber count. Only slight issue is that you didn’t mark the things that made the Chieftain a better choice than the assault ship. Other that I can’t possibly think of any constructive criticism. Amazing video, something to be proud of!

Super glad I focused on getting this one as my first medium combat ship. Especially when I started taking down large ships with it.

Lakon is the Superior ship builder.

Avenger = immediate like from the first X-com fan.

I've seen a video of an all frag Chief recently, it's so insane I built it myself and it's a lot of fun. You can avoid the "slippery turns" by boosting and then extending your cargo scoop, it'll limit your speed while keeping lateral thruster and turn speed. Works like a charm and lets me stay close to and behind almost any target

Blowing up the wrong thing? As long as things blow up theyre the right thing haha

I started playing about two months ago and went from my sidewinder to a Cobra MK3 set up for mining LTD's, and now you sir have me sold on this, as I work my way up to a larger mining vessel, and then an Anaconda. Your videos are top tier bruh.

This is the video that got me interested in playing ED. The Chieftain, Challenger, Crusader don't fit my playing/flying style but I love how they LOOK. Since starting, I've met enough of them in Res sites and CZ's that I learned how to beat them. Target the drives and the beastie isn't going anywhere. Once the drives are dead, switch the target to the PP

Love the Chieftain, but actually prefer the FAS due to the armor, resistance, and external module concealment.

Fell in love with the Chieftain the first time I saw it. Bought it. Never looked back. Spend 150 hours the past week in it. Love it.

The Natalie dormer quote gets me everytime

I just love how you talk about these ships, it makes me think they're real

I really enjoyed my time in this ship. eventually moved onto an FDL, but I loved this ship when I had it. The styling is so cool.

Missed opportunity: "With a name like Laikon, you'd think it'd be used to transport things. And it does. Transport murder I mean" and then a cut into the chieftain blowing up things

First time I got it my wife was like you're flying a bull frog now? Five minutes later she hears me giggling like our daughter to find me kicking some ass in a res site, just b4 I smashed into a giant ice rock. I love this ship and began enjoying combat because of it.

Dude, your videos are amazing! You made me write my first comment in over a year. Keep it up, and your channel is going to exlode!

I love the way you film these - true mastery of the camera mode!

Sub 462, and I must say, amazing quality. Definitely on level with the ‘big’ ED content makers

Getting that Top gear vibe

I want that! I love watching your videos. Couldn’t help but to chuckle at the quote from genie in Aladdin. You do good work, keep it up friend!

Honestly, you shouldn't feel bad. While it's a viable AX vessel and easy to replace, Faulcon DeLacey accidentally created the meta for Anti-Thargoid combat with the Krait Mk II. So get in your Chieftain, get out there and make ships go splodey! Don't forget: Two MRPs will help tons with the canopy.

The Chieftain actually makes an outstanding shield tank if you build it carefully. My own build is: - 2 Large Thermal Vent Gimballed Beams - 3 Small Scramble Spectrum Gimballed Pulses - 1 Medium Advanced Missile Rack (for Odyssey FPS stuff) - 6A Clean Drag Drives - 6C Bi-Weave shield, reinforced with thermal resistance - 4 Utility Shield Boosters, 2 Heavy Duty Super Cap, 2 Thermal Resist - 3 Guardian Shield Reinforcements in the military compartments (these are the key to the build!) - Pre-engineered size 5 FSD (gives another 3ly on this ship vs. a regular 5A Long Range FSD) - A 5A fuel scoop, size 4 Guardian FSD booster, 2B AFMU, size 2 SRV bay, and DSS. This ship has 71 sustained DPS (not counting the dumbfire rockets) that drops heat as it fires, with over 2,100mj of effective shielding after resistances, and a 42ly jump range. It's my go-to combat explorer and unlike other ships I've tried - namely the Kraits - it doesn't have to sacrifice combat capability to also be a solid explorer. And yes, it is absolutely a shield tank, which it turns out is kinda genius. With over 1200mj of absolute shielding it is more than capable of surviving some extremely rough landings with the shield still online, and it has the agility and raw thruster power to make those landings extremely rare occurrences, even on 10g worlds. This, in turn, means you have no need for a cargo bay or limpet controller. You're never going to take hull damage anyway. And sure, you don't have any crazy-high burst damage, but you don't need it. The Chieftain's outstanding agility means you can indeed park it on the ass of anything you're shooting at and stay there. That means you don't have to build it for short burst damage windows of other similar ships. Instead, you build for sustained DPS and just keep firing until the target dies. As much as I desperately prefer the look of the Kraits or the multirole capabilities of the Python, the truth is the Chieftain is simply a better combat ship than either. That it turns out to be an above-average explorer is just icing on an already delicious cake.

Just bought one of these, A-rated and loaded it with frag cannons and took it to the haz-rez. First time I've really enjoyed combat in Elite. More fun than my cobra, asp, icourier, krait or 'conda. Looking forward to seeing what it can do with engineering

I believe a fully engineered Vulture can offer a few surprises sir.

Thanks for posting these vids man as an upcoming E:D player looking at these reviews gave me an idea to what ship im getting and so far this ship stole my heart ❤️

I just want to say thank you for making this video. thanks to this, I found a ship that will Carry me through hell and back in one pice.

I was over the moon when I bought my Chieftain. I used it as multipurpose ship with 84 tons available for shipping plus combat here and there. It's quite an amazing ship. I had been going around with a Viper MK4 for a while and I wanted something to punch above my weight. When I saw where the Chief was available, I gave it a shot. I went for the price and stayed for everything else! I have an Anaconda now but nothing gave me the thrill I'd get on the Chieftain

you have no idea how much you made me want to start working on my thargoid chieftain again. just needs a prismatic shield and more engineering than you can shake a stick at...

Decontamination limpets don't go in utility slots.

5:24 I keep rewinding to this bit for a good chukkle lol

Love your style, please keep the reviews coming. I bought my Chieftain based on this review and LOVE IT, thanks!

At some point, the Alliance need to beg whoever at Lakon designed the C-series to build something in the Large size range, just so independent pilots can start flying around in something in the Cutter/Corvette size range without the feeling that you're morally compromising with two very dodgy governing authorities. Just imagine something that moves proportionately like a Chieftain and has a Huge weapons hardpoint.

I thought it had an itty-bitty living space too - but I just looked up the blue prints: the main body (without the engines) is about 50' X 200' X 60'. Let's say half of that space is unlivable i.e. cargo hull, weapons storage, maintenance passages etc. - that still leaves a 5,000sq ft house behind the pilot seat to call home. Too bad you'll never see it

GG on that Robin Williams Genie reference!

I love overstatement, melodrama, stuff like that.

A ship so cathartic to fly that I named mine the Catharsis.

mate... I subscribed because I love the way you review the ships. Please keep going and review them ALL !

Thanks for another great video, well suited for this amazing ship. Hail the Chief! 🤜🏻🤛🏻

I bought it today because of this video and i CAN NOT put my controller down now. Its a drifting gunship!! I love it!

Love your videos man, Short sweet... Positive and informative! And entertaining! Keep them coming!

By far this is my most favorite Elite dangerous video of all time. Great job my friend.

I recently got my hands on a Chieftain and I’ve fallen in love with combat now, it’s just so much fun in this ship.

It would be cool if it’s thrusters would point towards the ground when it landed

4:29 pls don't

Okay hear me out, lakon makes another combat ship based on both the chieften and dbx, and call it the diamond bace ace

This is my favourite ship to fly. It just handles perfectly.

Love the videos, and love the Chieftain. But from 14k LY away from the bubble on my way to beagle point, my weaponless, shieldless, 45ly jump range chief disagrees that it can't be used for exploration. I fly 100% FA-OFF and I haven't found another ship that is more fun to fly than the Chief. All hail the Chief! Keep up the good work on these videos! o7

Only took about 5 seconds of looking at it to realize what it was. A Hind. Gunship, with very little else to its name. Little cargo space because you might need to carry something, but everything else is here to make a seal club.

I've purchased a Chieftain for AX combat. Been engineering it and equipping it. I'll be ready to start exploring that content soon.

3 Weeks as a Rookie, went from Sidewander to Diamond X, than Asp X and today, right now - THE CHIEFTAINNN, YESSSSSS

The way it screams when you boost. Saying it was designed for Anti-AX is an understatement.

The ship I used to get from deadly to Elite in combat , it can take on any ship in any elite environment, just put a small repair limpet and small cargo rack to be able to repair the canopy on the go. ..nice video

I Love the Alladin reverence XD nice one. Good old gheeny

This may be my favorite video in the series. I feel the same way about the Chieftain but here The Pilot just puts it all in context and with a wit I don't have words for. Also, Chieftain is a joy to fly :D

This ship is just something I truly adore. I know that there are better ships for combat or trading, but how the Chieftain looks and how it flies just feels too good for me to not fly it again. I even contemplated selling my Anaconda just to have more credits to build my Chieftain better.

Finally! Great Elite Dangerous vids!!! Thank you sir!!! Liked and Subscribed!!!!

I love my chief. The other ship in this class that I love, you didn’t mention. The clipper. Same price range, same agility or better and much better shields.

I was 800 hours into Elite Dangerous when they released the Chieftain, immediately everything I was working on stopped, in order to buy and max out one of these. It's my favorite medium ship, the one I had been waiting for since I started playing in 2016.

I love my Chieftain. I've named it Dr. Giggles. It's a lazer and cannon build that is just too much fun.

Pushed by this video I bought the Chieftain and pumped it up to its new worth of 89 million credits. And this babe is worth every bloody cent! Wherever I show up this ship sends a clear message to every other ship in the system: "Dont start a beef with the Chief!" So, thank you, The Pilot, for making pirates fear for their lifes. Thumbs up!!!

You deserve a lot more subscribers than you have. Also I never comment on videos but you deserve some praise awesome videos dude

wow first time i have heard the "codys lab" music outside of his videos. cool video new to the game loving all the different ship reviews

Here's my thing. I avoided the chieftain and its sister ships for quite some time. When I finally upgraded from a Viper MkIV to a medium, I immediately went to the Krait MkII. 3 large, 2 small, fighter bay, and enough space to do everything well, with some practice. The alliance ships looked..... flimsy. From there, I bought a Mamba, because the FDL looked wrong. Do I regret my choices, no. Do I regret not trying it before several large, and then some more smalls? Yes. The chieftain and its sisters have become my main arsenal, from a pack hound boat, to a multicannon monster, and the chief, hailing all with its railgun call. I love these ships, probably more than the Krait, it's coffee maker and all. And that, I don't regret.

Excellent videos you're doing here.

I like how according to lore the Alliance is the only faction that has a standing peace treaty with the Thargoids but they're also the only ones capable of fighting them competently.

Still can't believe the Alliance-the redheaded stepchild of the superpowers-stepped up and not only designed a ship for AX combat, but one that does it well! Seriously, I got one of these yesterday and took it out to the Pleiades sector to kill some Thargoids. It was a joy to fly and was able to stand up to multiple Scouts. Now to take on the big death flowers... I'm sure this can handle it.

Back again - STILL entertained... After finally getting into AX combat (but with Crusader, coz i already had one...coz i like SLF tactics...and coz i wanted to _use_ SLF, against Thargoids and also a special AX-built Krait Mk2), i only just recently BOUGHT my very FIRST Chieftain! It's STILL sitting in one of my hangars, with factory paint-job gathering dust..... There's always 100 other things to be done in Elite!!!

everytime i see one of your videos i just wanna buy the ship and spend hours and hours flying it holy shit dude they should be paying you for this stuff you're literally making people fall in love with this game like goddamn these are amazing

That a cargo ship manufacturer created one combat ship during the war is not that suprising. The Thargoid threat is still out there, so this ship does still have its original purpose. It would probably also make a decent bounty hunter or police vessle.

I enjoyed my tenure with this ship, and I quickly moved to the Challenger which is like a second helping.

am i the only person who really likes the Lacon right-angle design I always find it to be pleasing.

Honetly i bought this randomly while playing with a friend hunting pirites and I fell in love with it as soon as I had my first fight in this ship I still haven't died once using this ship

I nearly permanently lost my Fer-de-lance to a chieftain AI master I barley came out ontop

Bought my Chieftain on the same day I bought my Crusader.... I have NO regrets.... Hours of Pirate killing, and Trolling fun... And I like it's defalt paint job. Called mine the "Murder Hobbo".... Keep up the awesome videos...

I Think that the Chief is the best looking Ship in the game. Better than even the imperial ships im terms of looks.

The alliance crusader. I need that fighter bay hanger.

This was the First proper combat ship I wanted in this game. I now love all of my Chieftains. I'm about to put together an AX one with two large shard cannons and two gaurdian gauss cannons.

"That design screams for atmospheric landings." And then, they used the !§)(/%&$"! vulture as a dropship, when even the cheapest of the three little federal piggies would have looked better doing it. I want to cry again.

Joke’s on you I’m using it as a space bus with the excuse that I can swap the passenger cabins for combat modules and bounty hunt in between the monotony of sightseeing

I LOVED this ship as a new E:D player. Outside of its looks, I picked it as my primary ship until I had the credits to graduate to my beloved Anaconda because it kept me safe in combat while giving me enough jump range to be somewhat useful as a mid range explorer. Then I decided to "graduate" myself to the Crusader. And then I almost didn't even bother with moving on to the Big Three. I'll yell you what...there's nothing scarier (or sexier) than a Chieftain coming in for the kill unless it's that same ship coming for the kill with a fighter being birthed from its launch bay!

Like the tank it's named after, it gets the job done and is pretty reliable because it's cheap and well armoured

Watched a pair of these wade through two corvettes and an anaconda in like 30 seconds. Holy crap

I'll be putting together my second Chieftain soon. I think I'll make it a Multi-Cannon build, I'll call it "Minigun-Chan" and give it the prettiest colors I can find for it.

this convinced me to save for and buy one of these as a new player , haven't looked back since I started flying it and have invested plus 60 mil. combat in this thing is beyond fun. the shields are next to useless, canopy blows out fairly regularly it overheats like there is no tomorrow but its seriously worth it. ain't noting short of a tactical nuke gonna get past the hull points, it turns/reverse trusts and rolls like nobodies business and the firepower can chew through pretty much anything, thins beauty can punch well above its weight.

there are two kinds of ship. one that can go as far as a bicycle and one that explores the galaxy. so unless I can "deploy" this ship its just a bike.

Lately I've been thinking of going back and engieneiring my Vulture, but I think I'm gonna have a look at a Cheiftain now.