[General Battuta]

Nah the Custos can do stuff about the beam threat. It's a ship with a tactical niche, and like most other ships it's boned in certain mission profiles and strong in others.

[PsychoLandlord]

Nah the Custos can do stuff about the beam threat. It's a ship with a tactical niche, and like most other ships it's boned in certain mission profiles and strong in others.

I was being facetious, but it's good to know that it wont be utterly without recourse should a good size capship show up.

[-Norbert-]

small escort cruisers are "the secret plan that will save us all".... That would be even worse than the overused super ship.

Whitestars were both.

With 470 or so meters in length a Whitestar ought to be quite a bit bigger than a Custos (a Hyperion is something around 300 m in length according to FRED, when you place a fighter in front and back and take the distance between them, for comparison).
And the Whitestar were only so strong because they incorporated Vorlon technology. A GTVA logistic ship wouldn't help them with building Vishnan/Shivan technology into their ships, even if they got their hands on some samples.

Edit: Right... 300 meter, not kilometer for the Hyperion 

[Snail]

300km? What?

[Commander Zane]

small escort cruisers are "the secret plan that will save us all".... That would be even worse than the overused super ship.

Whitestars were both.

With 470 or so meters in length a Whitestar ought to be quite a bit bigger than a Custos (a Hyperion is something around 300 km in length according to FRED, when you place a fighter in front and back and take the distance between them, for comparison).
And the Whitestar were only so strong because they incorporated Vorlon technology. A GTVA logistic ship wouldn't help them with building Vishnan/Shivan technology into their ships, even if they got their hands on some samples.

I didn't say the Custos is Blue Planet's Whitestar. I said Whitestars were the secret plan to save everyone as well as the overused super ship.

[-Norbert-]

Yes, but Babylon 5 is so old, that is wasn't overused back then
Besides they were still a lot weaker than the ships they were fighting, so I'm not so sure they count as super ships. A Whitestar could only take on a Shadow battlecrap on it's own if they had a powerfull telepath on board. And even then they had to take their jumpdrive offline and redirect all the energy to the weapons, leaving them stranded for 20 minutes.

[Commander Zane]

How restricted will we be to seeing other shots of the Custos before release by the way? I'm eager to see action shots of it.

[crizza]

Hm, I bluntly guess, that some Blackops Custos will kill Serkr...

[-Norbert-]

They might be good, but to take down three corvettes? Not without some serious bomber support.

[crizza]

Hm...they have spinal mounted gaus-cannons...ECM thingies...so they can snipe and counter their beams, while pummeling them with torpedos...protected by Kents and Uriels...well...
I want the modell for testing purposes...but yes, I know, it isn't finifhed yet.

[PsychoLandlord]

Serkr has more than beams at their disposal, and considering who they answer to I highly doubt they'll ever be in a situation where a bunch of Custos' and Kents can disarm and disable them, destroy any cover they have, and slowly whittle them down and destroy them without any backup arriving.

[Mars]

Am I the only one who really hopes the UEF fails miserably by the end?

[Ypoknons]

Why?

[Mars]

Why?

Because not many people seem to have said anything to indicate otherwise?

[Hades]

Am I the only one who really hopes the UEF fails miserably by the end?

Nah, I do as well, not to mention it's a hell of a lot more likely than them winning.

[Black Wolf]

I'd be happy to see the UEF go down too, so you're not alone. GTVA all the way.

[Ypoknons]

Why do you want them to fail, and I empahize, miserably?

[Fury]

You folks seem to assume that one side has to win and the other lose. I wonder if it's really going to be quite as black and white conclusion.

[Mars]

You folks seem to assume that one side has to win and the other lose. I wonder if it's really going to be quite as black and white conclusion.

Well, the whole "The GTVA must be destroyed" thing kind of suggests it.

[Ypoknons]

Aren't those just voices in Laporte's head?