WC Black Lance Escort Carrier
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ChrisReid
Super Soaker Collector / Administrator
You don't mean this, do you?
https://www.wcnews.com/ships/wc4bltransport.shtml
https://www.wcnews.com/ships/wc4bltransport.shtml
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Cpl Hades
Mr. Kat
You probably mean https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/3311
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Steelflight
Spaceman
Hmmmm.....
Odd shape for a carrier, I'd say. But then again, in WC, who says the shapes of the craft have to make sense?
'Sides....in WC4, all you have to do is get within' 10,000 klicks, and lob a torp at it.... That one would just have been another big ship that went down way too quick. If she were constantly launching Dragons though...
Odd shape for a carrier, I'd say. But then again, in WC, who says the shapes of the craft have to make sense?
'Sides....in WC4, all you have to do is get within' 10,000 klicks, and lob a torp at it.... That one would just have been another big ship that went down way too quick. If she were constantly launching Dragons though...
TCSTigersClaw
Greek Special Forces B' Company "Naoussa" 2007-200
It never appeared in WC4 ,so why bother?
Haesslich
Spaceman
According to the WC3 novel, a huge cloak requires a nebula to hide something the size of a jump point, which is probably a space a few kilometers in diameter. End Run states that the cloak requires an incredible amount of power from the ship... which means no shields and weapons. Paladin notes that they can't use the cloak all the time as well, and have to coast with scoops full-open when they don't need it, to replace their fuel consumed... and they run with it for a limited amount of time - just long enough to jump in and look around. This is definitely not like the Stealhs and Strakhas we saw in WC2 and WC3, which were apparently cloaked for more than a few minutes, staying that way only until they needed to fire weapons. With WC2, we know they were cloaked long enough to reach the Claw, since neither Blair's or the Claw's sensors picked them up... which is probably a lot more than the few minutes Paladin used it for per jump.
Therefore, we do have evidence that the cloak requires a lot of power, and when you scale it up... it loses effectiveness. While a carrier is smaller than a jump point, either you're going to need a shitload of power and equipment to cloak it... or else you can sorta cloak it, but not too effectively as you've got a lot more in the way of engine emissions and area itself to hide.
Haesslich
Spaceman
The first BL 'escort carrier' we see in the Novel is a Caernaven-class frigate with a hangar bay bolted onto it. Otherwise, the only Black Lance carrier we see is the TCS Vesuvius itself. TCS Princeton was a Confederation carrier when we captured it in the shipyard, even though they had a Black Lance ground crew and fighter squadron on board... as evidenced by the fact that the Border World marines were being helped in their assault by the TCS Navy personnel crewing the ship.
Otherwise, there is no carrier with 'radar-absorbent' material.