ideal midway taskforce

$tormin

Vice Admiral
what would be the ideal taskforce to escort a midway class ship?
ship types and loadouts please
and class of fighters for all.
takes place 2 years after secret ops

[Edited by $tormin on 03-17-2001 at 15:39]
 
Under war time situations as a whole carrier task force my ultimate =

1 midway
6 plunketts
12 murphy
18 corvettes
3 hades to act as long range scouts and to cover the flanks and rear.

Though my prefered task force is:
1 Vesuvius
with same escourts as midway
 
That doesn't really make sense, though...

The Hades class ships are independant operaters... and although they're faster than your average capital ship, they really wouldn't make good scouts (that's what *fighters* are for... it's why the space-carrier was originally created).

Anyway, you're attaching about half the Murphy/Plunkett fleet to *one* Midway...
 
Isn't that going just a teensy bit overboard? I'd say you'd have maybe one or two destroyer escorts, maybe a few frigates, and three corvettes for a wartime taskforce.

Peacetime, well thats just the Midway :)
 
If that is half the murphy plunkett fleet then, WTF has Confed been doing. It must need a hell of alot more cruisers and destroyers than that. I guess they can still use surplus Tallahassee and WCIV destroyers (don't remeber name, perhaps Terminator) until they get more of the newer ones, but remember if confed is like 1000 systems large (which someone has said) you need a reletivly large number of ships to be able to protect the systems.

Also I said hades for several reasons, by recon I mean a recon in force a system in either direction, for prolonged periods of time, not something a fighter can do that easily. Plus I would want a ship that is capable of fighting long enough to give me fair warning. And another reason I said hades is that it is the only light carrier (or anything close to it) that I know of that is currently in service, any light carrier would do for what I wish.
 
Murphys and Plunkett's aren't our only battleships -- they're a tiny minority. It's worth pointing out right now that the Plunkett isn't an escort ship -- she's a heavy artillery cruiser, for bombardment... Plunkett's form the core of their *own* battlegroups (the Tereskova Battlegroup, for instance (G)).

The WCIV destroyers don't have names -- and they aren't *surplus*...

RIF groups have their own specific contigent of ships: a light carrier, 2 escorts, a fast destroyer, a cruiser and one or more scouts... the Hades is a very expensive piece of machinery used for a very specific purpose by a very specific secret portion of the Navy (G)
 
Then what are the other battleships. The tereskova battlegroup was 2 destroyers and a cruiser, not exactly a big deal. As I stated I listed Hades for lack of a better ship to use as a light carrier but I have no problem adding in the other ships to my RIF group
 
If it is a big deal, surely ConFed would've lost the war! Considering it is so large, it would be able to churn out HEAPS of ships.

Also, it couldn't be because the Terran shipyards were destroyed in the Battle of Terra, as look on the official map, theres many systems that are far away from Kilrah. After all the Kilrathi used this tactic for the construction of the Hakagas.
 
The Omega ships were suposed to be stealthy dreadnoughts that wouldn't have even been finished by the time Behemoth was. (and yes, I know that the Behemoth was forced into action before being completly finished, but Omega ships were probably even further away).

Omega ships don't have much to do with the Behemoth. Unless you consider the Behemoth a stealthy ship.:)
 
Perhaps or maybe they are in hiding and will be brought out when the "real" Nephilim invasion comes, since I am of the opinion that this attack must a. be a minor recon in force and b. be 2nd or 3rd rate ships since anyrace that can travel across the distances that they did in 1000-2000 years BC would by every form of logic have to be able to have better ships than a race that first got spacefligh 4000 years after them
 
SO is the 'real' invasion -- WCP was the RIF.

Anyway, there's absolutely no rule that says that two completely different species in two completely different settings will evolve technology at the same rate (G)
 
Originally posted by Napoleon
Under war time situations as a whole carrier task force my ultimate =

1 midway
6 plunketts
12 murphy
18 corvettes
3 hades to act as long range scouts and to cover the flanks and rear.

Though my prefered task force is:
1 Vesuvius
with same escourts as midway

thanks, that looks about right in comparison to the other guys. what about fighter loadout for all those ships? and yes this is definitly a wartime situation :)
Yeah, i wanted a big V too, but somone else took it ;)
Thanks for all your help.
 
Then the other guys are all horribly wrong...:)

But I digress -- fighter loadout is generally pretty static.
 
Originally posted by Bandit LOAF
Then the other guys are all horribly wrong...:)

But I digress -- fighter loadout is generally pretty static.

yeah but the other guys are not WC (most of them) but this is not the bord for that sort of thing so i will not mention it again unless i have to.
 
You already did mention it. That's what this thread's about. You ask for information, get an answer, and ignore the sensible stuff :)

TC
 
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