Know Your Shipmates: Confed Capital Ships - Entry 2: Southampton
FROM: Rear Admiral Tolwyn, CINCWEAPONSDIVISION
DATE: 2010.23.05
-Tolwyn
It looks absolutely incredible. I\'m really glad you remembered to put a landing bay in the back too. But one thing I\'m really curious about is whether or not were going to see atmospheric missions in the final release
i dont remember the site but i reading that the sheffield has 5 Fighters and a transport and the tala has 20 fighter and 4 transports. what will be the final configuration?
The official name is Southampton, Sheffield was just a fan name for it, before EA defined the official name.In our game the Southampton does only have shuttles and each Talla has 5 Fighters. This doesn\'t say however that they couldn\'t carry more. Just that in our campaign they have those numbers.
The southampton however is unlikely to have much of a fighter capacity. The hangar is pretty much just a shuttle landing bay. Maybe a few Arrows or Ferrets or something could launch there, but a destroyed isn\'t really meant to be a fighter platform.
The turret gun look very nice and the attention to detail is fantastic. Again a great update from the Saga Team! Every time I look at your images, I have a flashback from the times of Wing Commander 3 and Tie Fighter :grin Can\'t wait for the final release to be ready for download. It will be again like in the old days when I was at school and I would rush home and play WC3 24/7 instead of studying :p
hmm on Pic 4 what is it? It look like a VLS (Vertical Launch System) from totays destroyers Oo
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This ship looks really cool. Damn good as i think. At first i thought that the vertical launchers were some kind of rescuepod-launchers but now i know what it is :-D .I hope you will release some pictures of the Yorktown-Class in the next time, i love this shipdesign.
-Hunter
We usually release the ships in order of size, so you\'ll have to be patient for a little while longer before you see the carriers :)
I am very impresed,seen many profhesnel models that don\'t equel the level of detain these are showing
It has been awhile since I have commented here. I must say that the new Southampton-class destroyer is looking petty good. It appears to have both forward Anti-ship missile tubes and a VLS array. As I was hoping that the final version of some of the heavy hitters would gain some additional missile/torpedo capability it is just what I hoped for. I am not yet sold on the new turret design though. To me they look more vulnerable than the older design, like they are light mounts with weather shields for auto-cannon rather than armored turrets for heavy guns.Still all of the detail with the weapons and hanger bay points to a ship with a lot more story telling/mission design options than before. I am imagining carrying out covert scouting missions with a pare of fighter from the new flight deck or witnessing a medium range missile duel with its Kilrathi counterpart.
I am looking forward to seeing what you have done with the rest of the ConFed fleet.
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This sounded odd to me. Should not the Tallahassee-class have 4 or 6 fighters so as to provide ether two or three complete leader and wingman elements? With 5 fighters in a flight someone would be without a wingman.
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In our game the Southampton does only have shuttles and each Talla has 5 Fighters. This doesn\'t say however that they couldn\'t carry more. Just that in our campaign they have those numbers.
This sounded odd to me. Should not the Tallahassee-class have 4 or 6 fighters so as to provide ether two or three complete leader and wingman elements? With 5 fighters in a flight someone would be without a wingman.
very nice. and the look of the turrets ^^