The Talahassee is the WC3-Cruiser (TCS-Ajax)
It's "Tallahassee", like the city in Florida.
She's a 30-something year-old cruiser.
The phrase "30-something year-old" means very little without a frame of reference. Did they enter service in the 1970s? The Tallahassee class entered service in the mid-thirties.
but it's said that they can wedge six-fighters in the ship.
Four. The Tallahassee class carries a four fighter half-squadron.
It's specs are not certain, in fact it's appearance isn't even.
Except for when
WE SEE IT.
If Bandit (LOAF) is right, it looks like a really big Exeter-Class (I think most likely the game-designers didn't feel like making a new ship, and decided to scale up an Exeter instead).
How are these two concepts in at all mutually exclusive?
It's bigger than the Bengal-Class which means it's over 700 meters (most Bengals are 690, but Zach Colson was saying that it's a bigger ship than the Tiger's-Claw too). Bandit (LOAF) stated that it's rougly comparible to the Concordia Supercruisers from the Movie, which yields a size of about 850-860 meters. It's probably the biggest war-era WC Cruiser. No idea what it's capabilities are. I guess it's like the USS Long-Beach CGN of Wing Commander (the USS Long-Beach, CGN-9, is a 721 or so foot-long cruiser).
I think you're having size issues... while nicely measurable in movies and such, the *length* of a ship really isn't an comparable trait. I could lay out a thousand meters of string, and in your estimation it'd make a *fine* warship. When comparing the *size* of a ship, the value you want to look at is the *mass*. The masses of the Waterloo and Tallahassee classes are very similar (18,200 and 19,500 tonnes respectively)... and both are dwarved by the Concordia SuperCruiser (73,000 tonnes).
I don't know what the hell happened with WC2-- the fighters got tiny, the Cruisers carry fighters, and even the Ralatha carried 23 fighters, but Waterloo's carry 40 fighters-- that's as much as the Ranger-Class CVL.
You're looking at this non-linearly. It's not like ships suddenly appeared in 2665 that could carry fighters -- they existed earlier in the timeline as well.
They do carry WC2 AMG's, and these are the kind that bypass shields, not the slow-moving yellow bolts which do 300 points of damage, but don't bypass shields.
Same gun, different engines. The shield technology in the WC3 era has counteracted the AMGs.
I think these things were probably superior in every way to the CVE's except speed.
*Everything* is superior in every way to a CVE... except in cost. Which is the point.
Honestly, they should have just souped up a bunch of Waterloo's and used them as Escort Carriers, they would have been able to carry Broadswords, and Cruisers are plentiful.
Waterloo class cruisers *weren't* plentiful, though. According to End Run they're counted as regular carriers with regards to scarcity.