Carriers

Which carrier type do you like most?

  • megacarrier (like Midway)

    Votes: 9 20.0%

  • Fleet Carrier

    Votes: 30 66.7%

  • Escort carrier

    Votes: 5 11.1%

  • A transport refitted to an auxiliary carrier

    Votes: 1 2.2%
  • Total voters
    45
  • Poll closed .
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Lynx

Spaceman
What sort of carriers do you like most? I personally would like to have a game where you are stationed on an old escort militia carrier which is a modified transport.
 
Fleet Carrier. Ghost is too damned good pilot to be in an escort carrier, and a mega carrier, nah, they have good anti-fighters guns, so i can´t save their lives :p
 
I'd like to be stationed on a strike cruiser like the cerberus, behind enemy lines actions, hit em fast and hard :D
 
Originally posted by Razer92
I liked the good old escort carriers like the Victory and the Lexington.
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Victory and Lexington were both fleet carriers, not escorts - Victory being a Ranger-class CVL and Lexington being a Concordia-class CV, which is essentially a scale-up of the Ranger class.
 
The Ranger is a light carrier, and wouldn't really be considered a fleet carrier.

TC
 
Originally posted by TC
The Ranger is a light carrier, and wouldn't really be considered a fleet carrier.

TC
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A light carrier is simply a fleet carrier built on a smaller hull, carrying a smaller air wing than a standard fleet carrier.

One of the projected designs for CVX, before it was redefined as CVN(X) was a conventionally powered, smaller aircraft carrier with an air wing of 30-50 aircraft as opposed to the present paradigm of a very large nuclear powered aircraft carrier with an air wing of 80-100 aircraft.
 
Agree -- "Light Carrier" is the same thing as "Light Fleet Carrier"... just like "Heavy Carrier" is the same as "Heavy Fleet Carrier". That's why all those types of ships have plain CV designations.
 
Erm, LOAF, I may be misreading your post, but a light carrier has a different designation -- CVL -- than a fleet carrier class CV.

And to add to other comments, light carriers have other significant differences besides just size and air wing, as compared to fleet carriers. They have significantly lighter defenses (both in weaponry and armor), and are often faster than a fleet carrier.
 
Lost

Okay okay okay. Could someone kindly explain the classifications of Wing Commander carriers? I'm very ignorant of this information. What exactly does 'TCS' stand for?? What is this 'CV' and 'CVL' stuff?? What constitutes a fleet carrier, Concordia class and blah bah blah?

I'm glad I'm not in the Navy.... :D
 
what's the diff between all the carriers?! they all carry fighters, some more some less, have no antiship capability, lotsa peewee turrets and heavy but useless armour!
Exceptions: Cerbures has a plasma gun but not much imagination about using it
 
Re: Lost

Originally posted by Col.Dom
Okay okay okay. Could someone kindly explain the classifications of Wing Commander carriers? I'm very ignorant of this information. What exactly does 'TCS' stand for?? What is this 'CV' and 'CVL' stuff?? What constitutes a fleet carrier, Concordia class and blah bah blah?

I'm glad I'm not in the Navy.... :D
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TCS is Terran Confederation Ship. CV is the designation for 'Carrier Vessel'. CVL is a light carrier. A fleet carrier would be a carrier of the fleet... The classes are like models of vessels. The Midway Class vessels will all, generally, look like the Midway. A Bengal Class carrier will look like the Tiger's Claw (although the Bengal Class varies in length), and so on.

Dacis, the Hades class is a Cruiser, not a Carrier.

TC
 
okay...

this means that carriers can be of different classes but be used for just one role and carriers of same classes csn be used for multiple roles right?
 
I don't believe CV stands for Carrier Vehicle -- it's a hold-over from today's water navy that no one has properly identified the origin of.
 
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