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I'm making this post here because, it belongs here for one because it discusses the IAF, and it's a continuation of this post, but doesn't belong in the Sandbox.
I'm proposing that we scrap the Banehound.
I say this because we have too many ships that fit a very specific need, and not enough versatile Escorts. Skira, Devastator, Hyperion, they are all capable SDs. The Banehound tries to be an Escort Carrier, but is larger and not better at it than our dedicated Escort Carrier (the Censor), and is decidedly worse at being a troop transport than our dedicated transport. The way we are doing our fleets now (1 SD with 4 support ships), it makes more sense to have a more versatile support fleet.
Skira can tank and slug it out with other ships. Hyperion can interdict OR slug it out with a formidable amount of turbolasers and ion weapons (given the right escort ships, the major weakness of the reactor can be compensated for). Devastator can field a larger amount of fighters than the enemy can, and with a Censor with it or elsewhere in the fleet, can still maintain a defensible amount of interceptors to protect the fleet.
I propose we submit a new Heavy Cruiser. We only have one, and it's meant purely to be a formidable anti-starfighter ship. The IC reason would be that the Imperium is phasing the Banehound out of service in favor of a Heavy Cruiser that has been in development for a couple years in order to increase fleet versatility, and a cost-saving measure. That way stuff from the Banehounds, like weapons, computer systems, etc can be recycled to use in the HC.
What I'm thinking is a HC with 2 squadrons of ships for self-defense purposes (no assault craft), a handful of point-defense weapons around the Bridge, Hangar, and Engines, and the main armament would be Turbolasers, with 4 batteries of super-heavy Ion Cannons, and some torpedo launchers. It would be a ship that is good for ship-to-ship combat in either offensive or defensive roles, and would make sense attaching it to any SD we have, which is what we really need.
Either way we're going to have to submit a ship to the HoL, and I'd really prefer it to be a Heavy Cruiser. There are just enough things wrong about the Banehound that reworking it to bring it up to scratch would require HoL approval.
Edit: Aaand forgot tags. @Dmitri @Bee @Fat Possum
I'm proposing that we scrap the Banehound.
I say this because we have too many ships that fit a very specific need, and not enough versatile Escorts. Skira, Devastator, Hyperion, they are all capable SDs. The Banehound tries to be an Escort Carrier, but is larger and not better at it than our dedicated Escort Carrier (the Censor), and is decidedly worse at being a troop transport than our dedicated transport. The way we are doing our fleets now (1 SD with 4 support ships), it makes more sense to have a more versatile support fleet.
Skira can tank and slug it out with other ships. Hyperion can interdict OR slug it out with a formidable amount of turbolasers and ion weapons (given the right escort ships, the major weakness of the reactor can be compensated for). Devastator can field a larger amount of fighters than the enemy can, and with a Censor with it or elsewhere in the fleet, can still maintain a defensible amount of interceptors to protect the fleet.
I propose we submit a new Heavy Cruiser. We only have one, and it's meant purely to be a formidable anti-starfighter ship. The IC reason would be that the Imperium is phasing the Banehound out of service in favor of a Heavy Cruiser that has been in development for a couple years in order to increase fleet versatility, and a cost-saving measure. That way stuff from the Banehounds, like weapons, computer systems, etc can be recycled to use in the HC.
What I'm thinking is a HC with 2 squadrons of ships for self-defense purposes (no assault craft), a handful of point-defense weapons around the Bridge, Hangar, and Engines, and the main armament would be Turbolasers, with 4 batteries of super-heavy Ion Cannons, and some torpedo launchers. It would be a ship that is good for ship-to-ship combat in either offensive or defensive roles, and would make sense attaching it to any SD we have, which is what we really need.
Either way we're going to have to submit a ship to the HoL, and I'd really prefer it to be a Heavy Cruiser. There are just enough things wrong about the Banehound that reworking it to bring it up to scratch would require HoL approval.
Edit: Aaand forgot tags. @Dmitri @Bee @Fat Possum
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