When the most recent GTD Hecate debate started I got thinking there is a big lack in the GTVA arsenal for a capital ship capable of tackling an Orion or greater destroyer with minimal support. So here is my answer to it the GTBs Capella class.
Class Statistics
Class: Capella
Classification: Battleship
Species: Terran
Role: Multi-Role including Assault & High Value Escort
Armament
-6 Heavy Beam Cannons
-6 Anti Fighter Beam Cannons
-2x2 Plasma cannons (A.K.A. blob cannons)
-4 Flak Turrets
Length: 1594 meters
Width: 752 meters
Height: 322 meters
Tech Description
At roughly 1600 meters long this class sits between corvettes and destroyers in size, designed to bring to destroyer scale armaments into battle for a fraction of the cost.
After the first few months of the NTF rebellion it became obvious very quickly that the new Hecate destroyers were not up to scratch against capital ship threats requiring the destroyers to operate a reinforced escort whenever possible removing essential assets from frontline duty. In addition to the Hecate situation the Deimos class, though slated as a cap ship killer, needed considerable help against NTF Orions, this was often exasperated in situations where the destroyer had a wing or two of bombers available to soften up the opposing Corvettes allowing an Orion concentrating fire on the corvettes to take them down in under 2 minutes.
With all this in mind on recommendations from military command the GTVA Security Council approved the for the military to accept proposals for the creation of a new category of medium to heavy warship designed to be capable of taking down an Orion or greater destroyer with only minimal support. After a year of design work, 4 companies proposed designs for the new Battleship classification. The winning design was the GTBs Capella class named after the lead class lead ship. Initially 2 ships of the were ordered for Proof-of-Concept trials with the 8th fleet, depending on the success of these trials more were to be ordered.
At the time of the collapse of the NTF insurgency the Capella and the Deneb its sister ship were still months away from completion. When work finished 3 months after the collapse of the Capella jump nodes the ships were instead assigned to replenish the ravaged 3rd fleet. The class currently boasts 6 heavy beam cannons capable of hitting with up to 4 of them at a time at optimum positioning and 6 Anti-Fighter beam cannons, supplementary armament is still being finalised though provision has not been made for a fighter complement.
Proof-of-Concept trials are ongoing.
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The compressed files below are identical except for format and contain the ship model, texture files, table, radar icon for the class and a demonstration mission. At the moment the model geometry is fairly simple with only LOD0 and sub objects. the texture files are plain simple colours with shine files to go with them. It is a case of I believe I have taken the ship as far as I can with my current skills, If anyone has feedback or wants to take a shot at improving the ship.
From a mission design perspective I have identified that:
Currently the class strengths are
- Capital ships in the 1-2 and 10-11 O'clock positions at medium range
- Fighters over the rear third of the ship but not directly behind.
Current Weaknesses
- Capital ships at long range as it easy to position so that only one beam cannon can reach
- Fighters in the forward quadrant of the ship as only 2 beam cannons and the flack cannons cover this area.
Model Features
All subsystems are sub objects
Destructible armour plates
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