[General Battuta]

You know, refitting ships is really no easy matter.  It's not like there's a bunch of wiggle room built into the hulls.

If you tried to take a modern aircraft carrier and do the equivalent of swapping some Terran Turrets for flaks - say, replacing the Phalanx guns with Standard missile launchers - it'd be a nightmare.  You'd need to make all that room for ammunition, reengineer the hull...just impossible. 

Same with trying to slap some battleship turrets on a destroyer. 

So all this 'swap the beams for Vasudan versions' is even more unlikely.  We're talking about reworking the power network (who's to say they operate on the same 'wattage'?), the software, the targeting systems, the heat sinks...you might as well build a whole new ship. 

[TrashMan]

Problem is, the Sath easily punched through some of the biggest blockades in history.....I'm pretty sure the GTVA does use strike-squads of bombers; isn't that what the player does, after all?  Of course, fighter cover (even if relatively inferior) and AAAf adds a bit more trouble for said small-ship strike forces than you seem to be considering.

And emerged with 100% hull integrity... Which is impossible really, even if you FRED the "huge" blockade wiht just one Orion. Story and "reality" are at odds here, but story wins

To be honest, I think it's very likely the Shivans actual abilities were toned down for balance; going by the actual stuff said in game, they should be nearly invincible.  but that isn't much fun

Given what I wrote above, I have to agree.

[Snail]

Geez... I don't know why I'm uploading this mission. My bro made me make it. Well, the Sath actually loses.

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[AlphaOne]

Actualy that is rather stange about the fact that the sath leaves the blocade in ruins yet it comes out virtualy unharmed. maibe they have the same fast repair abilaty that we see in some of the other ships in game. Or maibe they managed to jump close enogh to the blocade and with a full compliment of fighters from the jugg some 300 of them enough to overwhealm the defenders with the sath sheer firepower. I mean that thing fires its beam cannon once and you lose one destroyer fire twice you lose another two rovettes. Add that to the number of shivan fighters and bommbers and well....you know the rest.

But then again it does apear that they were made rather weak in order to make the game more fun since like aldo said above it would be a very borring game.

As for reworking a ship powergrid etc to handle vasudan beams..i do not believe it to be that hard since well....they already have  beams just not vasudan beams. So the effort put into this should be minimal but then again why would you want that since teran beams are capable of beeing overloaded and increasing theyr damage and range something which would compensate in part for theyr huge refire rate.

Vasudan beams work best in cooperation with some long range beams that the terrans have. i mean you have standard range engagement and you have your long range beams to inflict al least modeate damage to the enemy before it comes into ange of the vasudan beams whcih should help speed the death of the ship faster due to theyr increased refire rate.

[Mongoose]

Geez... I don't know why I'm uploading this mission. My bro made me make it. Well, the Sath actually loses.

I don't know how your run of that mission went, but during mine, the Sath came away from the battle with 38% (I believe) hull integrity.  The Colossus started off in such a poor position, it never got to bring its beams to bear; I think the ship that did the most damage to it was one of the Orions that managed to get into a broadside position before it was obliterated.

(Also, that supernova was mean. )