Jason_Ryock
Vice Admiral
Eh...your talking about Tolwyn taking the fighter back with Kevin, yeah?
Jason_Ryock said:Eh...your talking about Tolwyn taking the fighter back with Kevin, yeah?
anyway, the discussion on the speed, very good on the inputs, LOAF made a cleared explanation of what Iljun and I were considering, though, the fact that navs are shown in km and enemies in meters has nothing to do with it. They are shown that way because enemies are in dogfight range (where you need a more exact number for distance), while Navs are very far appart, and exact location in meters is irrelevant
Now, what would be the speed of such capships? I mean, if the fighters' speed would be the one listed (like 500kps for the ferret), the capship's listed would be just for comparisson? what about its top speed with scoops closed?
You have to keep in mind that you aren't the only patrol being sent out. I'm assuming there are like 4 patrols minimum. Take WC1 and an elliptical patrol pattern for example, you would have one on each y axis flank and on on each z axis flank. They might get away with 2 patrols and adjust z axis accordingly to get a good scan of the patrol route. This patrol route takes you towards the sides of the Tigers Claw and then loops you up into the area that she's about to enter. I've always assumed this happens the same way on the other flank.Jason_Ryock said:Even taking into account that they were three-d I don't think the patrol points were tacticly sound.
Jason_Ryock said:Can you now explain how the Cerberus keeps more then half it's fighters online all the time? Even if you assume the fighters never need maintenance, they do need to be reloaded and refueled, and you have to have pilots for them all, not to mention carrying fighters that can fill the roll out properly.
Lord_Nathrakh said:thast why i capped my typign and not his
I'm assuming a full carrier crew with a SOP. I think that the Cerebus ony had 6 pilots because they were just testing everything out (Black Varients, Hades class carrier) and you wouldn't need a full complement, just the craft you were testing. If they expected 6 pilots to do everything on one carrier (not to mention putting the life of an extremely expensive capship on 6 pilots), they would burn out so fast you'd have to rotate new crew every couple of weeks (also not to mention the decline in combat effectiveness that would take place). This makes the Cerebus a special case (if I'm correct in my assumption).Jason_Ryock said:If it flew Vipers suggested patrol pattern then it would.
Kalfor said:Narthrak, its actually million, not billion
my mistake, but it should be obvious when I stated "in about 40 hours" and not "in about 40 miliseconds"