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El_Phil said:
The cap ships main guns may outrange a fighters but such guns wouldn't have the fast tracking you'd need to hit a rapidly dodging fighter. Unless you've got some funky tech. of course. Besides a fighter should be a hell of alot faster than a cap ship, even when dodging and weaving, due to having a tiny fraction of the mass.
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Well as shown even in Babylon 5 (which btw I am a big fan of) a beam weapon just slices so you make a sweep with your beam cannons your bound to hurt a bunch of the fighters until they come within range of your PD cannons then they'll get torn up by those thus fighter=useless. Especially when (like me) you have at least two dedicated 24 PD cannon Point Defense ships in your fleets.
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Frontline convoy maybe a ship of the line escort, but for anti-pirate duty it would be massive overkill, hence smaller ships. Also for a high speed convoy a DN would/could just slow things down. It depends upon the threat what escort is appropriate, so flexibility is good.
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Well I've never mentioned non frontline convoys so that's a moot point, especailly since the only real convoys I have right now are transport fleets carrying State Security forces and those all have SD escorts for obvious reasons.
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ST tends to keep ships around for decades so once something is built it stays. But you would build the newest design ship in your yards not a xx year old design, hence lots of different class ships that are similar sized.
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Another thing that is illogical I wouldn't keep an 80 year old ship in my fleet if I have a state of the art 2-10 year old ship to replace it, especially since in Star Trek money has nothing to do with it.
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Small ships for all the reasons above AND why build a BB sized science vessel? AND the Defiant was just guns no exploration role hence alot smaller.
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Ah yes but in star trek there are "no pirates" out there except the Maquis who were alll butchered by Cardies and Jem'He'Dar.
The Enterprise E actually is smaller than the D which is funny considering it's newer and an "Advanced Explorer" which as we've all seen by her firepower in Starfleet "Advanced Explorer" means "Battleship" lol.
I find it funny however that the defiant apparently packs more firepower then a freakin galaxy and yet they didn't create any more Defiants or outfit capital ships with pulse phaser cannons which are apparently much more powerful then a standard beam phaser.
Anyway my point is when it comes to the story so far I've had no need to mention light raiders or raiders and no need to mention my handful of BCs that are still patrolling my frontier sysems (2 last I counted) so meh.
Although I was thinking of producing a few battleships to act as a rapid strike force
