i made this one after fleet tactics, so it's looking similar to theirs, obviously. i must admid i can't remember how the original looked, (and then it was a ega/vga sprite)
as for the designation battleship, this follows the terminology of nexus, the game this ship is for.
nexus capital ship polycounts range from 3000-5000, the getty is ~3300.
the original numbers will change somewhat anyway, since fighters played only a minor role in nexus. something i will hopefully change somewhat in WC:T.
but with more important role of fighters, i'll also want them to be more detailed, thus saving polys a bit on the capships.
returing to the battleship designation, there are a few things that will be changed in WC:T, among those will be a mostly origninal storyline i concieved after playing wing commander 1 a long time ago. for example, i never pictured the confedetration to be humans only...
i also plan to include new ships, like a kilrathi frigate called the "lasari", since the kilrathis don't seem to have this class
another thing that had me wondering, i keep reading the cats favor big overgunned battleships, but the don't really seem to have any. the sivar dreadnaught was a single ship, as was thrakath's super warship in wc3