Actualy it says that by the time the NTF rebelion started there were 24 of them in service with production beeing halted about 1 year before if i remember corectly.
The GTC Aeolus is the first cruiser class ever produced by the RNI shipyards orbiting Laramis II. Only two dozen of these cruisers were put into service in GTVA fleets, with production ending in 2365. Allied Command assigns Aeolus-class ships primarily to guard slow-moving convoys against fighter and bomber wings, as these cruisers are severely out-gunned by most capital ships in service today. Their flak and AAA turrets serve as marvelous deterrents to smaller craft, however.
Which still leaves room for the NTF to have capture a number of them.
I fail to see the mortal danger in guarding a backwater station or sistem or a supply depot. Also how many times have we seen what underestimating the power of a warship does to you. the Aeouli is aside from its shivan counterpart by far the bet cruiser ever seen in the game.
The mortal danger apparently comes from these pirate wings you keep talking about: although my thought is that it wouldn't be a problem, and the GTVA just wants warships to fight Shivans again. Just because it is one of the best cruisers in the game doesn't make it worth it, because, as stated already, cruisers are being abadoned in favor of corvettes, thats why it's a failure, because it's a cruiser.
I still dont get it why it is described as a failure?? Also how may times did corvettes had to have theyr arses bailed out by cruisers. Just because we see more cruisers taken down its because the enemy would tend to pick off the smaller targets in order to exploit weakneses or tactical advantages.
Because it's a cruiser, and cruisers aren't that good anymore. How many times did corvettes get bailed by cruisers? None that I saw in the main camapgin, maybe you could reference a specific mission?
But the cruisers performed admirably. And lets not forget that wuite a few corvettes were lost in the NTF and GTVA-Shivan war. So i dont believe there are that many around. But i do agree that at least 6-12 of them would of been completed in most regards just not readdy to roll out of the production lines.
Cruisers are far easier to destroy than corvettes, even an Aeolus could fall prey to a few wings of bombers, whereas a corvette could shrug them off. Considering that 24 is considered a small production run I'd say there are far more corvettes than that left.
To produce some new class of cruiser would seem anly logical or at least improve on the existing Aeouli design.
Tell me WHY it's logical, your not backing any of this up.
also i dont believe that a shipyard is not able to switch production from one ship class to another in arelative short amount of time.
I agree, that's why I'm saying that cruisers would be more expensive than they're worth, because there'd be a need to refit all the shipyards to produce them.
The GTVA must have (or already has) enough technology to allow far much less people to operate a cruiser, 3.000 are just way too much. Like AlphaOne said, with the losses on both wars, how many Deimos there were before and how many do you think there are now?
So tell me why you think that, and while your at it tell me why it takes 10,000 people to operate a destroyer, or 30,000 to operate the Colossus. It is also canonical that t takes 6,000 to operate a corvette (from
A Lion at the Door), I don't have a problem with it taking 3,000 people to operate a cruiser.