Tolwyn
Vice Admiral
Today it is up to me unveil the latest work of the WCSaga team. This time around, the release is a Confed light carrier.
The Ranger-class light carrier is an aging design that was constructed in the early 2580s, more then 50 years before the Kilrathi War started. They were initially designed to provide secondary support to heavy battleships, then regarded as the mainstay capital ships. The Ranger-class initially carried light recon craft and and space-to-ground precision bombers, but didn't have a carrier air wing designed for anti-ship attacks and fleet actions.
Ranger-class carriers aren’t very well protected or powerful. They are at a serious disadvantage when facing modern opponents such as the Kilrathi’s Bhantkara-class. However, due to the recent turn of events during this War, they have no choice but to act as mainstay carriers.
Here are the pictures.
The second screenshot shows the drastic difference between the Ranger and Concordia-class. The most striking difference is surely the conning tower.
We are partial to the Concordia-class tower being on the right hand side. In WC4, they were forced to rehash the Victory all over again because they ran into probs with using the Connie. This way, this Concordia-class will look similiar enough to the Ranger, but just slightly different so one can say, "Hey, that's a different ship!"
Credits are as follows: model by Michael Boewes, textures by Anton ‘Tolwyn’ Romanyuk, final touches and model conversion by Michael ‘Starman’ Pretli.
The Ranger-class light carrier is an aging design that was constructed in the early 2580s, more then 50 years before the Kilrathi War started. They were initially designed to provide secondary support to heavy battleships, then regarded as the mainstay capital ships. The Ranger-class initially carried light recon craft and and space-to-ground precision bombers, but didn't have a carrier air wing designed for anti-ship attacks and fleet actions.
Ranger-class carriers aren’t very well protected or powerful. They are at a serious disadvantage when facing modern opponents such as the Kilrathi’s Bhantkara-class. However, due to the recent turn of events during this War, they have no choice but to act as mainstay carriers.
Here are the pictures.
The second screenshot shows the drastic difference between the Ranger and Concordia-class. The most striking difference is surely the conning tower.
We are partial to the Concordia-class tower being on the right hand side. In WC4, they were forced to rehash the Victory all over again because they ran into probs with using the Connie. This way, this Concordia-class will look similiar enough to the Ranger, but just slightly different so one can say, "Hey, that's a different ship!"
Credits are as follows: model by Michael Boewes, textures by Anton ‘Tolwyn’ Romanyuk, final touches and model conversion by Michael ‘Starman’ Pretli.