[Mad Bomber]

An IDA frigate, more or less, eh?

[spartan_0214]

For the last time, It is a Heavy Frigate with cargo pods attached to it! 

Hey, that's a pretty good idea. Now we need to make pods that have various weapons on them, such as more BFGreens with their own power sources in the pod...

[Hades]

No. To Uberpowerful^TM for a Frigate.

[Polpolion]

For the last time, It is a Heavy Frigate with cargo pods attached to it! 

Exactly. Why for the love of God does a heavy frigate even need cargo pods?

[Hades]

For the last time, It is a Heavy Frigate with cargo pods attached to it! 

Exactly. Why for the love of God does a heavy frigate even need cargo pods?

It is an alternative to freighters which die easily.

[Polpolion]

For the last time, It is a Heavy Frigate with cargo pods attached to it! 

Exactly. Why for the love of God does a heavy frigate even need cargo pods?

It is an alternative to freighters which die easily.

So it's not a heavy frigate, it's a freighter? A heavy frigate doesn't have cargo pods.

[Hades]

No, it is a cargo frigate that they would use to carry more important and valuable stuff.

[Polpolion]

No, it is a cargo frigate that they would use to carry more important and valuable stuff.

And "cargo frigate" is an impractical ship design. You'd use one about twice every year; every other logistical movement of supplies is either not easily accessible to the enemy, not important enough to draw their attention, or well escorted enough to not need to bother with this. And no one would spend their money on a ship that's this expensive to use it that little.

[Colonol Dekker]

I like the concept now it's been clarified. Vip cargo ftw. I'm sick of losing a mission cos argos getting smacked. Original too.

[Hades]

No, it is a cargo frigate that they would use to carry more important and valuable stuff.

And "cargo frigate" is an impractical ship design. You'd use one about twice every year; every other logistical movement of supplies is either not easily accessible to the enemy, not important enough to draw their attention, or well escorted enough to not need to bother with this. And no one would spend their money on a ship that's this expensive to use it that little.

It would be vital for the GTVA's special cargo to be safe so they would use the Frigates instead of weak freighters.

[Mad Bomber]

I could see independent captains or shipping conglomerates (or even mercenaries) use these things far more than governments. They're technically bulk freighters under the law, making them legal to own, but their armaments suggest otherwise...

[Polpolion]

No, it is a cargo frigate that they would use to carry more important and valuable stuff.

And "cargo frigate" is an impractical ship design. You'd use one about twice every year; every other logistical movement of supplies is either not easily accessible to the enemy, not important enough to draw their attention, or well escorted enough to not need to bother with this. And no one would spend their money on a ship that's this expensive to use it that little.

It would be vital for the GTVA's special cargo to be safe so they would use the Frigates instead of weak freighters.

See my previous post in this thread for my refute.

[lefkos]

No, it is a cargo frigate that they would use to carry more important and valuable stuff.

And "cargo frigate" is an impractical ship design. You'd use one about twice every year; every other logistical movement of supplies is either not easily accessible to the enemy, not important enough to draw their attention, or well escorted enough to not need to bother with this. And no one would spend their money on a ship that's this expensive to use it that little.

It would be vital for the GTVA's special cargo to be safe so they would use the Frigates instead of weak freighters.

first i like the idea
but its on the other hand indeed impractical
weak freighters have cruisers and fighers escorts to cover there asses right?
but still its a good idea
but my opinion is to make it not as powerfull als the iceni etc but less weaker maybe even weaker than a corvette cuz i think that cargoships that blowing up everything.. just a weird idea
but ey
thats my opinion

[Hades]

Cruisers and fighters arent enough. You can pilot fast fighters in swarms and still kill the cargo ships, no matter of the escort.

[lefkos]

Cruisers and fighters arent enough. You can pilot fast fighters in swarms and still kill the cargo ships, no matter of the escort.

true
but sooner or later you also kill the frigatefreighter  !
you can destroy freighters with fighters and bombers
but the same story is with frigates and destroyers or bigger :hypocrite:

[BengalTiger]

first i like the idea
but its on the other hand indeed impractical
weak freighters have cruisers and fighers escorts to cover there asses right?
but still its a good idea
but my opinion is to make it not as powerfull als the iceni etc but less weaker maybe even weaker than a corvette cuz i think that cargoships that blowing up everything.. just a weird idea
but ey
thats my opinion

So read about the East Indiaman and the idea won't be weird. Also- an Orion, Hatshepsut, Iceni and every other serious warship will kill this Fr-Ff in 3.2 seconds, so it's not going to pwn everything in it's path.

[Polpolion]

Cruisers and fighters arent enough. You can pilot fast fighters in swarms and still kill the cargo ships, no matter of the escort.

Guess what? You can do that to any GTVA ship, including this ship. And just because this is a frigate won't change anything. The cargo pods are external. You'd need just as big an escort as any other convoy, and then some, because if these frigates truly were to carry the most vital wares in the GTVA, whoever will be attacking it sure as heck knows it's important just because they have the frigate shipping it.

[Hades]

Cruisers and fighters arent enough. You can pilot fast fighters in swarms and still kill the cargo ships, no matter of the escort.

Guess what? You can do that to any GTVA ship, including this ship. And just because this is a frigate won't change anything. The cargo pods are external. You'd need just as big an escort as any other convoy, and then some, because if these frigates truly were to carry the most vital wares in the GTVA, whoever will be attacking it sure as heck knows it's important just because they have the frigate shipping it.

Pirates and other races still attack freighters anyway.

[Polpolion]

Cruisers and fighters arent enough. You can pilot fast fighters in swarms and still kill the cargo ships, no matter of the escort.

Guess what? You can do that to any GTVA ship, including this ship. And just because this is a frigate won't change anything. The cargo pods are external. You'd need just as big an escort as any other convoy, and then some, because if these frigates truly were to carry the most vital wares in the GTVA, whoever will be attacking it sure as heck knows it's important just because they have the frigate shipping it.

Pirates and other races still attack freighters anyway.

Yes, how about that? And in what way does this make my argument less true?

[Mad Bomber]

Pirates might at least be deterred if the ship carrying the supplies has a decent chance of defending itself.