Knaar-class Corvette

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Feb 19, 2013 2:39:35 GMT -5 A®heim said:

They'll state in a source book that hyperdrives with a rating below 2.0 didn't come around until the Clone Wars era and then the Ebon Hawk has a class 1. They'll say that turbolasers are massive, anti-capital ship weapons that require incredible amounts of energy and then slap a pair of quad ones on a small freighter.

It appears that the Ebon Hawk is the source of your problems.

[A®heim]

It's my favorite whipping boy, yes--a nice, well-rounded example of negligence that everyone is familiar with.

[Apillis]

I liked elements of both suggestions, so I combined them. XD

I reduced the turbolasers to light turbolasers, and replaced the assault concussion missiles with proton bombs. TIE Bombers have a 15 metric ton capacity bomb bay, and a corvette (this one included) is a few times larger than a TIE Bomber, so I gave this vessel a 35 metric ton capacity bomb bay--a dash over twice that of a TIE Bomber. I have absolutely no idea how much a proton bomb weighs, but I don't imagine they weigh more than one ton, so just to play it safe I gave it 35 bombs matching the number of its bomb bay capacity.

Proton bombs are really powerful--stronger than concussion missiles, so I have no idea what it does to determine it's anti-capital ship rating.

[A®heim]

It's launch capacity would likely be larger as well, giving this thing a truly nasty punch against capital ships--enough to warrant at least a 7 I'd say. However, you now how absolutely zero anti-fighter defense barring one of them flying in the wrong place during a bombing run thus dropping your anti-fighter to 1.

I'm not sure what a proton bomb weighs (if anything at all), but one of the other advantages is that you could load the launcher with ion bombs for strictly blockade-running operations without all the energy woes that come with mounting a larger ion cannon.

[Apillis]

That's fine, this thing isn't meant to fight fighters, it's meant to outrun them while ripping a capital ship a new one and keep going. A straight up trollololololol ship. XD I actually had been wondering if I should've just lowered the anti-starfighter rating from 2 down to 1 in the first place, this just gives me all the more reason.

But just for the sake of having something there, I looked up what the old WWII anti-ship bombs weighed (since what inspires the space combat a lot is the old WWII battleship wars). Found a hefty bad-boy the Germans used to drop specifically on ships, and it weighed 1300kg (roughly 3000lbs). Inspired by that I decided to cut out a fourth of this vessel's initial cargo capacity (2000 down to 1500 metric tons), and convert it into the bomb bay capacity, so now it has a 500 metric ton bomb bay. Then using the size of the massive bomb bay, I estimated how many bombs the vessel can carry at max... Which is a lot. >.> Basically about 385, and I don't want to give it any more than that because that's a lot of bombs and a loooooot of hurt. >.>

[A®heim]

Cut down another 4th of the cargo to account for the loading apparatus/launcer as well as the extra plating you'll most certainly want around the bay--don't want a lucky shot completely ruining your day. For flavor, you might also want to consider how many of these 385 bombs the ship can deploy at once. Space bombs technically use a low-velocity launcher system to give them bearing (note how TIE bomber bombs tend to fly forward a short distance before dropping) which can limit the ability to simply pop open the doors and let the whole lot fly, but multiple bombs could certainly be released at once. Maybe somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-20.

I used to despise STRK and SRM Kats that used this tactic in Battletech, but then I built one and it was way too much fun.

[Apillis]

Dig it! Done! XD

[A®heim]

Approved