WC2 Snakeir question

I like the Frathli II a lot actually, and the Ralarrad was a really cool looking spike with a flight deck. The Ralaxath is my least favorite as it looks like a flying can opener but it's turrets were hazard to lighter ships health.
 
I wasn't particularily fond of the WC3 Kilrathi designs either (fighters and Cap ships), with the exception of the Dralthi IV, the Fralthi II and the Hvar'kann. Now most of them have grown on me but I still don't like the Ralarrad (Lt destroyer) and Bhantkara (Carrier) very much.
 
NinjaLA said:
Honestly that was the big disappointment for me in WC III, IV and V is that the kilrathi capital ships are just ugly. After the amazing ships of 1, 2 and armada and privateer.. I was left thinking "what the hell, flying triangles?"
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Presumably a consequence of moving to a 3D polygon-based engine.

With the talk of "full-scale fleet carriers" and how there were so few of them, I have a question: what constitutes a full-scale fleet carrier if a Snakeir doesn't qualify for that distinction? And what was the Confederation counterpart? I realise there may be a number of capship types mentioned in the novels which I am not familiar with...
 
It seems to be concerned with fighter capacity. Carriers that carry over 100 fighters are always called fleet carrier, while those under that threshold are light or escort carriers. Although the term Medium Carrier has appeared in a few sources but I'm not sure what would qualify, Waterloos perhaps?
 
Bandit LOAF said:
WC2, like WC1, doesn't actually allow the player to attack full scale carriers - in both games they're only referred to in dialogue.
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I misunderstood this quote to mean WC1 plus The Secret Missions. So I misinterpreted LOAF as stating that Snakeirs aren't fleet carriers.

So yeah, I knew what fleet carriers were after all. :)
 
I don't think it's the number of fighters - the Victory is sometimes referred to as a fleet carrier. Rather, I think it has something to do with the role of the ship... a *fleet* carrier is the center of a fleet.
 
Fleet carriers have a larger number of fighters, and enough armament and support equipment to service and keep those fighters flying for an extended period compared to other ships, from the way the books described them; the Tiger's Claw was a Strike carrier, as was the Eagle's Talon and the Kipling, and they were considered fleet carriers, IIRC. Most all of the fleet carriers we've seen (save the older TCS Victory) had a large number of fighters - 104, then 120, and then 96, plus fairly heavy armament for a craft of her type.. or at least I don't recall light carriers having the same amount of guns or torps.

As LOAF indicated, Fleet Carriers are the center of task forces or carrier groups - so that's a role more than anything. However, at least up until WC3, these carriers were also fairly formidable craft in their own right, able to support a large number of strike craft. Maybe the terms 'heavy carrier' and 'supercarrier' are probably more applicable to the type of fleet carrier described earlier on in the thread.
 
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