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Yeah, the Dragon and the Centurion ARE fairly similar, apart from the cloaking and .... errr ... the billion credit price thing :) And we know cloaking is ineffective against the Nephilm. I've seen/heard nothing that says that either the Kilrathi or Confed are capable of detecting cloaks...

Maybe it's "does not" support cloaks. I don't remember the details. Anyway the advantage of the Dragon is the same thing as its disadvantage ... its M/AM engine. It is basically a mini-capship. Make sure it's fitted with errr... essentials for pilot comfort, train the pilot to reduce the...

I certainly agree that the enormous cost of the Dragons rules them out as carrier fighters. Personally, though, I would be surprised if Dragons (or rather, the latest model) do NOT exist, at least in limited numbers. To me, they are in some respects like the modern day stealth fighters - very...

I always find it somewhat amusing when people mention public opinion as a reason why the Dragon (or Lance if you prefer) would not be used. Give it a new name and a new paint job and the public would be none the wiser. Economics and performance are valid reasons for discontinuing a fighter...

I've never had any significant problem fighting cloaking ships. Once you know they're there, you have a pretty good idea where they are going to uncloak (e.g. on your tail) so it simply becomes a matter of waiting and dealing with it when it happens. Cloaking usually takes a few seconds, and...

As Wedge009 said, the Piranha isn't meant to be a light fighter like the Arrow or Hornet. It's a scout, so it's probably comparable to the Ferret. Yes, it is specialized, but then, it's very suitable for the peacetime role it is intended to fulfill. It is fast, very manouvreable, and has more...

True that the Tigersharks guns are an improvement over the Piranhas standard guns. I find the charging guns of particular advantage against large numbers of enemy - you can let the guns charge while you are concentrating on dodging, then just swing onto an enemies tail, deliver a usually fatal...

It all depends upon the firepower available to your 'main' guns. I will admit that I rarely (if ever) used the Dragon's Fission Cannon against fighters, simply because (as you said) the other guns were powerful enough to take out a fighter quite quickly. With a Tigershark, the main guns...

The auto-track guns are great against small targets, BUT they consume a lot of power. I turn them off against capships and often against heavy fighters too. Without the auto-tracking, the Excal usually has enough power to take down a heavy in one burst. As for charging guns like the Fission...

The problem is, of course, that most of these statistics, pictures and schematics are drawn by people who have never been near a real fighter in their life. If you look at the Ferret, the 'glass' canopy is as thick as the cockpit below, with nowhere for the pilots legs. So either the pilot...

The scaling of same-game fighters (e.g. Raptor, Scimitar, Hornet) seems reasonable. The WC2 fighters seem to be inconsistently small, especially considering the Rapier shrinks from 24m to 19m. I think your 'mass' scaling system is going to hit a major problem with the Broadsword, which for...

Because the M/AM engines that the Dragons use are hideously expensive. And given the penchant of fighters to go Boom fairly regularly (unless they are piloted by a certain Christopher Blair), it doesn't make economic sense to equip fighters with them. I would imagine that M/AM powered...

Apart from the fact that capships turn slower than a pregnant cow. Flying into the hanger of a capship should not prove too much of a challenge for any reasonably competent pilot. And, if it does manage to turn sufficiently to cause the fighter to stack it, the impact of a fully laden fighter...

Fair enough. We must fly/fight differently. I tend to use full guns or fully charged mass drivers at close range, so with anything with a decent weapons loadout (basically anything but a Piranha) I can usually drop a Dralthi in 1-2 hits and a Vaktoth in 2-3, depending on the ship and...

Well, by the numbers in the ships database, the Vaktoth has about 25% more firepower than the Manta, but only 35% of the armor, less manouvreability and much worse acceleration. I find the Vaktoth MUCH easier to take down. The same goes for a Dralthi/Moray comparison. The Dralthi has nearly...

Yes, the Bugs ARE harder than Kilrathi, but only in Prophecy i.e. with the exception of the Kilrathi Corvette, the Prophecy Kilrathi are pathetic. However, in WC1-3, the Kilrathi are more challenging than the Bugs in Prophecy. And as for the uses of Maniac, I find that he is (at times) a...

The Cerberus was a strike cruiser, not a carrier (at least that's the definition I've read. In WCIV, you spend time aboard the Lexington, which is definately a carrier, while the Concordia, as a dreadnaught, is probably MORE than a carrier, so Preacher is probably correct in saying that SO...

Couple 'o comments. Firstly, we've seen the 'crane' thingy work on the Midway. But what it really doesn't tell us is how closely you can pack them together. The crane deposits a fighter into the launch tunnel, the hatch closes and the ship launches. While the hatch is closing, another...

Given how tough those Strakha were, you probably took him with you :)

Partridge In A Pear Tree :p