 February 23, 2015 - 10:17am | I'm not a fan of all ships of thethe same classstats having the same stats. An American destroyer and a Russian destrioyer will have differing capabilities and its generally fun, in a vehicle combat simulation toi see if you can win with an unfamiliar vehicle design. We have some ships that were designed for the Rim, the CFM, and the humma but we dont really have a full order of battle for the Flight. I'd like to work some up.
Destrioyer, light cruiser, heavy cruiser and carrier.
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 23, 2015 - 10:25am | Two items of fan cannon That should figure into this: 1) the humma loving fighter ops 2) the HARM munition (sfman 17? -HARM munitions are a counter fighter ordinance for both rocket batteries and assault roickets). That said the jewel of the Flight's fleet should priobably be a carrier. Possibly on par with the UPF battleship and holding more fighters than a UPF carrier. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 23, 2015 - 11:24am | Thinking about carriers and battleships, I'm reminded of the USS Missouri model by Revell that I built. It had 2 recon float planes mounted on rails at the stern. Perhaps in keeping with a fighter op theme all Flight warships of DD size or larger carry 1 or 2 long range recon fighters. These are externally monted. They carry no weapons or just 1 FF pod laser. 1 occupant, MR 6, ADF 6. They have stealth capabilities that halve the range at which they can be detected by radar and even more effective when using the fighters evasive manuever capabilities. Same hull points as a regular fighter or 1 point less. Mount radar and perhaps other scanners. ( was toying with the idea of this recon platfrom being what the Flight uses to sweep for mines but that might be too much- though if so the Flight wouldn't bother with minesweepers as any decent formation of warships would have a screen of recon fighters that could sweep for mines). I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 24, 2015 - 4:56am | This was designed by Will the Stampede and i wrote some of the background on it: Fochrik Flight Works Springblade-class Patrol Combatant The Flight began to chart its own course independent of the path set by the CFM. Recognizing that armed merchant/paramilitary designs were unsuitable for its purposes, they introduced the Springblade Class patrol combatant design. An inexpensive but capable ship design that could be built in planet based ship yards and still be launched into space, it quickly became a workhorse military vessel in the Rim. Crew: 15 Weapons: PL(×4)*, LB, TT(×1) OR HARM(AR)(×5) Defenses: RH, MS(x1) Engines: 2 Atomic "A" *All four PLs are forward firing and fire-linked for 2d10 damage. The Springblade-class
patrol combatant is the workhorse of the Flight and the various
militias within the Rim. Though relatively fragile for its size, the
vessel boasts an arsenal of weapons comparable to a Space Fleet frigate,
with the same maneuverability and acceleration. It fullfills the roles played by the assault scout and frigate in the UPF fleet more or less. It was designed and built in the Humma home system though they have been built elsewhere in the Rim. The view I took of the humma was that they had had limited space ability when the ifshnits discovered them and that they bootstrapped themselves up fairly quickly into a space faring race after that. Thier ship yards are not as capable as those at Osak and Capella so they build a lot of fighter craft and small ships. The yards at Osak and Capella build the bigger vessels. Thus the next Flight vessel should be a Destroyer which would carry one of the proposed recon fighters. Then the Light Cruiser which would also carry 1 recon fighter The Heavy Cruiser would carry 2 recon fighters RE: Carriers- I think the jewel of the Flight should be a super carrier- HS20 and on par with the UPF battleship, however it would stand to reason they also field smaller carriers I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 24, 2015 - 5:41am | The Tail Slash Heavy Fighter was developed by Will the Stampede for the humma project: Tail Slash heavy fighters: HS:2 HP:10 ADF:5 MR:4 DCR:20 Crew: 2 Weapons: PL(×3), AR Defenses: RH Engines: 1 Atomic "A" ________________ Recon/Scout Fighter HS:1 HP:7 ADF:6 MR 5, DCR: 30 Crew 1 Weapons: PL (x1 forward fire) Defenses: RH, Special- stealth Stealth capabilities make this ship hard to detect and lock up with torpedoes or rockets: other vessels using radar to detect this craft can only detect it at half range and when performing evasive manuevers the penalty to the firing ship is 6% (not 5%) times the MR of the fighter. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
