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Offline Droid803

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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
Even if i can resuply il still take on a GTVA fleet in a Mara hell il take 2 shivan fleets for that matter in Mara . Just give me a full load of trebs Maxim and Kaiser as a loadout and il be sure to make a super fireworks dispay. :D

Problem - SF Mara (terrans) can't mount Maxims.
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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
Even if i can resuply il still take on a GTVA fleet in a Mara hell il take 2 shivan fleets for that matter in Mara . Just give me a full load of trebs Maxim and Kaiser as a loadout and il be sure to make a super fireworks dispay. :D
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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
you can try but you wont get anywhere near me for long enough to do any substantial dammage to me :P

Remember the excelent dog fighting capabilaties of the Mara?
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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
you can try but you wont get anywhere near me for long enough to do any substantial dammage to me :P

Remember the excelent dog fighting capabilaties of the Mara?
Doesn't matter, eventually you will make a mistake and you'll get double Harpoons in the face, followed up by a volley of Kayser fire, then a few Tempests just to round things off.

 

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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
Well, against the AI, you could kill anything with enough Trebuchets (especially on lower difficulties).

 

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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
True, but on the easiest level, you could ram anything fighter-sized to death ;)

 

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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
Hey i was just wondering if the Ultra AAF's i hear about are that deadly. I dont know i might have been toasted a couple of times by such beams but i dont remeber.

If they are that deadly then i presume the difference in mounting them would be something like the difference between mounting BG and BFG??
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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
You seriously didn't just ask that did you ?  :wtf: 



Play that mission where it says "that rebel cruisers anti fighter beams have a two kilometre rang" on hard and try to attack it...
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-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
The one with the Levi and the Fenris? Oh man...i hate that mission. Come on its been a while since i replayed the main FS2 campaign.

Edit1: Also i thought of something . I mean its all god and fine to spread out your forces meaning dedicated carriers and stuff so as not to loose all of the eggs when the basket brakes but then again using the smaller basket thing too much can also prove to be a fatal weakness as you can find yoursels dangerously low on heavy firepower and carrier ability. So in the same topic i would like to ask everyone wat they believe would be a better solution or an ideal solution for this. Basicly how many light ships are too many and how many heavy ships are too many.


Also i would like to elborate in here about various oportunies on the battlefield presented by smaller carrier vessels and/or dedicated warships. Sure they can do one job better then the other but then again what should be a definitive factor in each area.

For example I consider the Iceni a super hunter-killer/run-blocades capship-killer. Its very fast has loeads of beam firepower hell it has more beam firepower then the Hecate . Yet it is weak in terms of aaf defences(for those of you who dont know this already) .

So the Iceni would be good at capship head on engagements. However the Same can be said about the Orion no? Even if they are different classes of warships an Orion can still go agains many capships and with a bit of luck even win. We know it could in theory win agains a Demon and Ravana. Sepera not at once you guis.


So whats your take on this?
« Last Edit: April 26, 2008, 05:45:26 am by AlphaOne »
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Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
4 small carriers to a taskforce instead of a destroyer... And don't spread them out :D
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Offline AlphaOne

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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
I dont get it why not spread them out ove r the course of a sistem or 2 . This coupled with other capships such as corvettes friggates(if any are built) and cruisers could do the job of 2 or more destroyers. Then agin if something horrible wre to happen they would most definetly need the firepower of a destroyer close at hand.
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Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
I wouldn't spread anything out too far... If you do they're operating alone effectively. Within sympathetic fighter cover range should be adequate..
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Offline AlphaOne

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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
Well agreed but how far is too far in this case ? We know fighters can jump in and out really fast much faster then any transport or capship.

I mean what you say is more then reasonable but then again leaving a carrier without heavy beam cannon coverage is just plain stupid so i would imagine they would be escorted by at least some sort of cruisers or corvette . But that would mean increasing the size of the taskforce to at least 2 or 3 corvettes/frigates per carrier and even more cruisers or whatever you wanna use smaller then a corvette. This would be a bit expensive dont you think? Or are you thinking about carriers that actualy would be able to fend off cruisers and fire back enough beam dammage to otrher capships in order to make theyr escape a bit more easy?

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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
The one with the Levi and the Fenris? Oh man...i hate that mission. Come on its been a while since i replayed the main FS2 campaign.

Edit1: Also i thought of something . I mean its all god and fine to spread out your forces meaning dedicated carriers and stuff so as not to loose all of the eggs when the basket brakes but then again using the smaller basket thing too much can also prove to be a fatal weakness as you can find yoursels dangerously low on heavy firepower and carrier ability. So in the same topic i would like to ask everyone wat they believe would be a better solution or an ideal solution for this. Basicly how many light ships are too many and how many heavy ships are too many.


Also i would like to elborate in here about various oportunies on the battlefield presented by smaller carrier vessels and/or dedicated warships. Sure they can do one job better then the other but then again what should be a definitive factor in each area.

For example I consider the Iceni a super hunter-killer/run-blocades capship-killer. Its very fast has loeads of beam firepower hell it has more beam firepower then the Hecate . Yet it is weak in terms of aaf defences(for those of you who dont know this already) .

So the Iceni would be good at capship head on engagements. However the Same can be said about the Orion no? Even if they are different classes of warships an Orion can still go agains many capships and with a bit of luck even win. We know it could in theory win agains a Demon and Ravana. Sepera not at once you guis.


So whats your take on this?

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Offline AlphaOne

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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
doh i rmember now. Man that beam is good. boy do i feel stupid. I remembered which beam i was asking about . Lol noob lil ol' me.
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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
Up thread someone expressed concern about a small carrier being too easy for a Shivan warship to kill if it jumps in close.

How about a carrier armed with multiple EMP launchers? A Ravana jumps in, spam it with EMPs, run away. Heat seeking and longer range versions would help enormously. The AI doesn't even need to target individual turrets.

 

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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
Takes time. A Ravana can annihilate a Deimos with one salvo. There really isn't a good way from stopping somebody from jumping in and getting off at least one salvo before you can stop him, particularly somebody who's Shivan because their caps jump so precisely.
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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
Takes time. A Ravana can annihilate a Deimos with one salvo. There really isn't a good way from stopping somebody from jumping in and getting off at least one salvo before you can stop him, particularly somebody who's Shivan because their caps jump so precisely.
LRed has a 3-second warmup and a range of 4000m, so a projectile would need to travel 1333m/s to reach in time, assuming it was dumb-fired instantly. The fastest secondary in FS2 is the TAG-A at 400m/s.

 

Offline Snail

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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
LRed has a 3-second warmup and a range of 4000m, so a projectile would need to travel 1333m/s to reach in time, assuming it was dumb-fired instantly. The fastest secondary in FS2 is the TAG-A at 400m/s.
You're assuming the Ravana jumps in at just the right range. I doubt even the Shivans can make their capships jump to a meter of precision (when you take into account the slowing down bit)

 

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Re: Smaller carrier vessels?
Are you sure of that? They probably know better than any other how to make precision jumps.
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