Finalizing Neostandard

[Fyron]

I set the typical alternate for the Battle Cruiser to be Battleship instead of Cruiser. Sound good? Maybe it will encourage people to make it more Battleship like.

[Ed Kolis]

Kana said:
I was just stating that historically a BC was bascially armored like a cruiser, faster than a BB, but had BB size guns.

That just made me laugh - a cruiser armed with BB guns!
"Yeah, we're blockading this port, and if you don't surrender we're going to... umm... perforate your sails! Yeah! Never mind the fact that warships haven't had sails for centuries..."

[Suicide Junkie]

Imperator Fyron said:
...a "battle cruiser" will tend to look like a cruiser, and a "juggernaut" will tend to look like a dreadnought....

Only if the shipset designer is short of ideas

[Fyron]

Which describes 80+ percent of shipsets that have been made for SE4...

[Fyron]

Looks like Battle Cruiser won out over Juggernaut. I wrote up a spec for the SE5 Neostandard:

http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.p...dard_%28SEV%29