TCS Agincourt

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As of this moment the card displayed on the main page shows the TCS Agincourt. It looks like the TCS Ajax. I thought the Agincourt was a Waterloo class cruiser from WC2 or is this a different ship?

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It is possible for a name to be used more than once. How many Concordias do we have in WC, after all?
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Presumably during the war the original Agincourt was destroyed (it's a war, ships die in wars) or scrapped, as you'll never, AFAIK, see 2 ships bearing the same name at the same time.

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Though why they would show something like the Ajax on the card, when the Waterloo class ships looked so darned great is beyond me...
 
They probably used the picture of a Tallahasse-class (see the novel "False Colors") cruiser because it was, oh, I dunno... released after WC3, at which point the Waterloo-class cruiser was most likely already destroyed?
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Besides, there's the practical matter of recognizability. How many here, were they not WC junkies, would recognize a Waterloo-class cruiser shortly after the release of WC3, which for more than a few people was their first taste of WC?

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It sounds like it would be cheaper to build two more effective ships (the Tallahassee and Ranger) rather than a compromise ship, the Waterloo, which is relatively easy to destroy.
 
The Ranger-class is actually an ancient design, dating back towards the beginning of the war.
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As for the non-nitpick stuff, If you'll look at the 2 cruiser designs, given the dire straits Confed was in by the time of WC3 (after Battle of Terra), it's faster to produce Tallahasses, which are modular ships, than it is Waterloos, which obviously aren't.

(That's the universe explanation; for a technical explanation, the curves of the Waterloo-class would be a cast-iron b*tch to code into the WC3/4 game engine, which doesn't really support lots of curves on the models very well.)

Of course, I think the Waterloo-class looks more cool, but that's just me.
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Death: Unless you meant to say the opposite of what you said, we all seem to agree with you. The Waterloo sure was much cooler looking. But, like you said. The WC 3 engine would have failed utterly with the Waterloo. Come to think of it, even the WCP engine would struggle a bit over it.
 
Wouldn't help much, the whole thing was round in every place. The Waterloo did look cool though. One of the best looking ships in WC.

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It won't look cool anymore
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I seem to recall that the explanation from Origin's publications people (back when they explained such things at the Origin CZ
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