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As for Vesuvius VS Midway. Both ships have various advantages over each other. The Vesuvius for one, can carry much more fighters and it appear that it's faster and more agile, the Midway however, is most likelly cheaper (being the reason why Confed built it in the first place instead of several smaller carriers that would serve the same purpose). On the other hand, the Midway has more secured flight deck than the war-era carriers, and like Penguin said, the Midway has a number of Ion cannons that are not in the game, so it would have more fire power (but again, not like a carrier is suposed to fight other ships).
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I thought the Midway was a "Stand-alone Carrier force"
capable of performing all the standard functions of a
task force by itself (source: The dialog between Zero and Dallas in the briefing room at the beginning of Prophecy,
and also the manual).
As such, isn't the Midway intended to engage in ship-to-
ship combat without escorts? Not to mention ground assaults, with the onboard Marine brigade (intended)?
-- Brian P.