[MatthTheGeek]

We know the UEB Lapis, the UEC Custos (standard and Spec-Ops varients), the GTC Cretheus and the GTCv Aegis will be new ships featured in WiH2. The three firsts are in the recent update, the latter is a variant of the Diomedes equipped with TAG beams and TAG-slaved Trebuchet launchers.

There are of course the ships that were already in the old version of WiH1 but that weren't used, like the Izra'il, the Ainsarii and the Vajradhara.

[redsniper]

TAG-slaved Trebuchet launchers

D:

[MatthTheGeek]

Avoid the TAG beams and you won't get Treb'd, pilot !

[crizza]

This would be so sick, an AAA-beam hits you some thousand metres away from the ship and BAM, you have multiple Trebs coming for you

[-Sara-]

How about paint bombs? Through hidden mines in asteroid or debris fields, that when exploding leave a unique radioactive residue on your ships hull, making you sitting duck against all the trebs and beams shot at you, not to mention any AWACS that could jam your only chance to hit subspace.

[Crybertrance]

This would be so sick, an AAA-beam hits you some thousand metres away from the ship and BAM, you have multiple Trebs coming for you

Can I has this for the UEF too?

[Deadly in a Shadow]

This would be so sick, an AAA-beam hits you some thousand metres away from the ship and BAM, you have multiple Trebs coming for you

Can I has this for the UEF too?

Something like a TAG-Gauss cannon with Grimlers (oh wait Slammers) appearing of nowhere?

[crizza]

This would be so sick, an AAA-beam hits you some thousand metres away from the ship and BAM, you have multiple Trebs coming for you

Can I has this for the UEF too?

Something like a TAG-Gauss cannon with Grimlers (oh wait Slammers) appearing of nowhere?

I could live with a beam painting me for long range missiles rather then a GAuss projectile hitting, and most likely piercing my fighter...

[Aesaar]

I could live with a beam painting me for long range missiles rather then a GAuss projectile hitting, and most likely piercing my fighter...

Or not even piercing your shields.  Gauss cannons don't do much damage against shielded targets (just 300.  The Perseus has 350 shields).

[CT27]

That Custos looks cool.

Hopefully the GTVA will get some new toys too that can match it.

[General Battuta]

That Custos looks cool.

Hopefully the GTVA will get some new toys too that can match it.

Yep, they get the Cretheus

[Mars]

I just realized that the Aeigis would be a pretty effective countermeasure to a lot of the UEFs primary advantages (Narayana level range). I wonder if the Trebuchets will be unmodified.

[Jellyfish]

Why would the GTVA need a corvette as a Treb platform? Long range subsystem disabling? Anti-fighter/bomber sweeper?
Because existing fighter wings can already do that.

[SpardaSon21]

No, existing GTVA fighter wings get shredded by UEF point defense and have trouble with the UEF's high-performance fighters.  An Aegis corvette able to spew many Trebuchets at a time will prevent a serious long-ranged threat to UEF strikecraft while having more staying power in sustained battles than a wing of Ares fighters.  I don't know how many launchers an Aegis will have, but it will probably have a great deal many of them since it has to compete with flexible and cheaper Ares fighters as a long-ranged anti-strikecraft option.

[Jellyfish]

No, existing GTVA fighter wings get shredded by UEF point defense and have trouble with the UEF's high-performance fighters.

Looks like Threat Exigence Initiative's new fighters aren't making the cut. Guess it's time for a Wave Three of those?

[Qent]

TEI fighters are for wading through endless waves of flimsy Shivan fighters.

[Jellyfish]

That sounds horribly like 'overspecialization', and that kills armies more surely than any enemy action.

[Aesaar]

Last I checked, the Nyx was created specifically to respond to UEF fighters and gunships.  And the Atalanta is more than capable of going toe-to-toe with a Kentauroi.

[Hades]

TEI fighters are for wading through endless waves of flimsy Shivan fighters.

Which, realistically, aren't exactly flimsy and that's more of a game balancing thing than anything.

I mean really, imagine Shivan ships and guns being highly superior to yours like they are in the canon lore. That'd not make for a fun gaming experience.

[Fury]

That'd not make for a fun gaming experience.

If done right, it could be. But the end result would be very different from original FS.