Blaster
Rear Admiral
I’ve decided to start a thread about battlecruisers mainly because I find them very interesting.
Before reading Star*Soldier I thought that the biggest advantage capital ships had over fights were their strong shields, I was very surprised to find out that both the confederation and the Kilrathi built large numbers of capital ships without any shields at all but are still able to hold their own against fighters.
Star*Soldier also mentions that, because of a tungsten shortage, civilian fighters have to use lower quality armor which makes them much slower. If it’s difficult to get enough tungsten alloy armor to cover a fighter than it must be even harder to get enough for a battlecruiser. Is it likely that the military battlecruisers are faster or have stronger armor than the ones seen in Arena?
Before reading Star*Soldier I thought that the biggest advantage capital ships had over fights were their strong shields, I was very surprised to find out that both the confederation and the Kilrathi built large numbers of capital ships without any shields at all but are still able to hold their own against fighters.
Star*Soldier also mentions that, because of a tungsten shortage, civilian fighters have to use lower quality armor which makes them much slower. If it’s difficult to get enough tungsten alloy armor to cover a fighter than it must be even harder to get enough for a battlecruiser. Is it likely that the military battlecruisers are faster or have stronger armor than the ones seen in Arena?