Pre-WC1 Ships

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Originally posted by RFBurns
What puzzles me is why they never fired the lasers! It would have looked neat with lasers and the rotating neutron gun fireing at the same time!
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I wonder this too, and the only thing I can imagine would be the reason is that (IIRC) lasers are the weakest of all offensive weaponry in ConFleet. Perhaps the pilots perfered to keep their gun charge reserved for more effective weaponry?
 
Originally posted by LeHah
The CF-131 Broadsword is armed with:
3 Mass-Driver Cannons (2 Wing-Mounted, One Nose-Mounted)
3 Missile Mounts
2 Torpedoes
3 Turrets; 2 Neutron Guns In Each

Just because it sounds vaugely like a firearm, doesn't mean it is.
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When Paladin made his run on the Snakier in the movie he launched four topedos not two.
 
Perhaps there were two torpedo hardpoints?

Originally posted by TC
No, you're probably mixing it up with the armour unit system that's used to measure weapon's damage from WC3 onward.
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Yeah, probably that. As I said, been thinking too hard.
 
Originally posted by LeHah
The WC Movie fighters do not shoot bullets.
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NO but that's basically what a massdriver is though. Kindof like a super rail gun if I remember correctly. It's always been a quirk for me when sci-fi shows use EM shielding (Enterprise last week hehe). Em sheilds would absorb or repulse a laser shot or a human being, but not a solid projectile. Pretty handy if you have a mass driver cannon handy. :)
Luckily Star War, Star trek , and Wing Commander get around it by using just the term shields. i guess you could theoretically deflect a projectile (which they do with EM fields now, though very slightly) with an EM field, but you'd have to have one hell of a generator. God why didn't I major in Physics?
C-ya
 
Originally posted by I'm thinkin...
When Paladin made his run on the Snakier in the movie he launched four topedos not two.
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Can you be positive that all four of them were torpedoes and not missiles?
 
IIRC, I believe that by WC3, they do state that fighters get phase shields to help beef up the durasteel equivalent that shields provide, as well as the armor itself. I
 
Originally posted by Napoleon
wildcats and hurricanes, read Action Stations
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Does anybody recall what kind of capabilities they had in wc1/2 terms? I mean, what kind of guns and missiles they carried, how fast they were, and how strong was the armor compared to the weapons they were being shot at with (like would a single missile hit or a couple of laser hits be enough to down a fighter or were they more durable than that?).
 
Originally posted by WildWeasel


Can you be positive that all four of them were torpedoes and not missiles?
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Personally, I thought it was quite clear that Paladin launched four torps. Otherwise, it was a couple of very big, very slow missiles that looked exactly like the torps. ;)
 
Originally posted by Viper61
NO but that's basically what a massdriver is though. Kindof like a super rail gun if I remember correctly.
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So, you're saying that a common firearm is as effective as a railgun? ;)
 
Originally posted by LeHah


So, you're saying that a common firearm is as effective as a railgun? ;)
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An effective firearm has more to do with your ability to hit what your shooting at, if you can't aim a railgun well enough to shoot anything/body it wouldn't very effect, right ;)
 
Originally posted by OriginalPhoenix
Personally, I thought it was quite clear that Paladin launched four torps. Otherwise, it was a couple of very big, very slow missiles that looked exactly like the torps.
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That's my opinion, as well. My point, however, is that we can't really be sure based on that brief clip.

Ultimately, I'm inclined to believe that he was simply flying a different variant of the Broadsword or one with a different loadout.
 
Lasers on the Rapier

Originally posted by LeHah


I wonder this too, and the only thing I can imagine would be the reason is that (IIRC) lasers are the weakest of all offensive weaponry in ConFleet. Perhaps the pilots perfered to keep their gun charge reserved for more effective weaponry?
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That does make sense. I remember somewhere on the board the discussion of the damage rates between the Neutron cannon and the lasers on the Rapier, and the Neutron cannons were more powerfull. Judging by the movie, their refire rate is quite impressive.

Did any of the fighters in the WC movie (both Confed and Kilrathi) have shield systems? It seemed that it did not require very many shots on either side to take out a fighter in the movie.

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Re: Lasers on the Rapier

Originally posted by RFBurns
Did any of the fighters in the WC movie (both Confed and Kilrathi) have shield systems? It seemed that it did not require very many shots on either side to take out a fighter in the movie.
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I'll just quote the fighters seen in the film:

CF-117b Rapier
Armor: Fore And Aft Phase Shields Rated To 7 cm
5 cm fore armor / 4 cm aft armor
3 cm port / starboard armor

CF-131 Broadsword
Fore and Aft phase shields rated to 13 cm
10 cm on each fore / aft armor
8 cm each port / starboard armor

KF-100 Dralthi
Fore and Aft phase shields rated to 5 cm
4.5 cm fore armor / 3.5 cm aft armor
3 cm each port / starboard armor
 
Thanks LeHah! Wow, 7cm, 5cm. Thats almost like paper thin compared to the modern ships!

RFB
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Originally posted by WildWeasel


Can you be positive that all four of them were torpedoes and not missiles?
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Battleship being destroyed by Four Missiles?
 
You're misinterpreting. I wasn't suggesting that all the projectiles we see are missiles. Only some of them may have been.

And, on an unrelated note, you have a very odd method of quoting people.
 
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