New ship plans

[Eppy]

Here's the role I envision for Carriers. We have an unused gun class, right, 6? Well. How's about we turn the Carrier into a Fighter Support Vessel? Two Battleship turrets, four Gunboat turrets, and however many Class Six turrets, which will mount high-speed, medium-range, high-refire weapons - basically an optimized Solaris - and improved Flak. It can mount a pair of whatever Battleship guns it feels like - probably missiles for taking Gunboats, I'd say, Gunboat turrets for the anti-fighter missiles, and the rest for anti-fighter in general. So, in essence, we've optimized the Carrier for righter support - it now can't hope to take on anything bigger than a lone cruiser, but anything smaller than that had better learn to riverdance really, really fast. Keep it classed as a Battleship with the exorbitant Battleship prices and we'll have ourselves a new purpose as a fine support vessel for the current pseudo-Battleships.

Of course, this is all conjecture, and I'm sure somebody will come along in five minutes and tell me how wrong I am, but let's say that this is the direction of thought I think people ought to take in this matter. Think up new things! Instead of worrying about being dockable or spawning fighters, think of how we can repurpose them to help assist smaller ships in a larger tactical situation.

Why? A carrier is, by definition, a support ship. Therefore, it should do some supporting instead of being the ship of the line. Honestly, each house having only one or two Battleships has always been a bit of a shortfalling with me. I mean, in a real navy there's so much room for variation, but here we've got, at most, five classes of capital ship per house/major affiliation. New Dreadnoughts or Light Battleships (and several different models of cruisers, destroyers and gunboats) ought to be built instead of forcing a carrier into the role of Dreadnought (or Disco-Style Battlecruiser, in the case of the Geb).

I'll just move these over from the other thread...

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Quick comment - we thought that Panzer was the Leader, Swift. -Agmen

Which Dreadnought was that?

One of your nine.