Scaling WC Fighters.
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Edfilho
Cry some more!
Even though the official size of those carriers is ok, in-game they are not.
It's not that the official LxWxH dimensions are small, but tale a look at the victory's hangar and it's proportion to people and fighters in it... It seem a lot smaller.
The intrepid is scary, take a look at the banshees that take off of it in the Instructor cutsecene, it seems like 5 of them are as big as the ship itself.
It's not that the official LxWxH dimensions are small, but tale a look at the victory's hangar and it's proportion to people and fighters in it... It seem a lot smaller.
The intrepid is scary, take a look at the banshees that take off of it in the Instructor cutsecene, it seems like 5 of them are as big as the ship itself.
Bloodspray
Spaceman
Delance said:
The F4F Wildcat was about 11.58m W x 8.76m L x 2.81m T. It was an average to large sized fighter by WWII standards.
By comparison, the F-14 Tomcat is about 19m W (max span) x 18.6m L x 4.8m T.
40m is only 131.2 feet. That's only just over twice the 61 feet, 9 inches of the Tomcat. And the Tomcat itself is just over twice as long as the Wildcat.
That extra size is needed to carry around all that jet fuel that they burn like there's no tomorrow, or else it wouldn't have any range. And, in the typical rocket science problem, it needs gobs of thrust to tote those Phoenix missiles and it's RADAR, which means more fuel, which means more weight, which means more thrust, etc. lol
But, when you add in the much larger weapon systems of WC fighters, their extra computer equipment and sensors, extra armor, shield generator, life support systems, cloaking device (where applicable), power generation and engine systems, and in all probability - body output systems (let's not get too detailed there. lol), IDK, I would think it's reasonable for a fighter to be 131.2 feet long. Especially since it doesn't need to fly via lift and spends most of it's time in space (meaning there isn't the need for streamlining or keeping weight down, quite as much - not that mass is negligible in space either....).
I don't mean to be repetitive (honestly
) I just think the extra detail is relavent. 
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Delance
Victory, you say?
Who cares? The people who made the games don't, or else they would make it all fit togheter.
Let's presume that
a) Capships are larger
b) Figthers are smaller
c) Both
d) Fighters use a molecular thing to get smaller inside carriers, like Megatron can turn into a small gun
Let's presume that
a) Capships are larger
b) Figthers are smaller
c) Both
d) Fighters use a molecular thing to get smaller inside carriers, like Megatron can turn into a small gun
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
The lengths aren't an issue because they don't make sense from a technical point of view - they don't make sense compared to the size of people in FMV segments. Pliers reaching into the bottom of a Lance implies that it isn't 40 meters long.
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
The TPOF novel mentions that most of the fighters are kept in storage below decks, and thus can't be scrambled easily.
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
Naw, even on the CIC picture you can see there's a substantial deck below the actual flight deck.
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Bandit LOAF
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They're the same models, the Tango one just has "clean" textures instead of battle scars.
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
No, that's an old rumor. One of the old Aces Club people made an Intrepid manual that had a giant flight tower... but the actual Tango is just "clean" where the bridge is supposed to be.