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>Do you make use of combat-focused shuttles?
I'm rolling up a Captain's Log campaign and intend to have some combat shuttles in the sector. No plans to trench run anything.

>>96462110
>TQ
Generally no. Any time I think about doing it I just think how dumb it was in Discovery and how little they seemed to help the Odyssey in DS9. Far as I'm concerned, shuttles exist to be shot down to start a plot.

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>>96462110
>Thread Question: Do you make use of combat-focused shuttles?
>>96464626
Make it a Corvette then!

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Shangri-La class, my beloved.

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>>96465486
Constitution class, also my beloved.

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>>96462110
I'm planning on a carrier/fighter heavy STA game. I'm still new to the game, has anyone used fighters in STA combat? I suspect taking the extensive shuttlebays talent a bunch of times for a carrier could make a really overpowered combatant.

>>96466332
>the victory of form over function, 2255, colorized

>>96464801
I mean what does Corvette even really mean in Star Trek terms? Something like a Bird of Prey?

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>>96466332
>has anyone used fighters in STA combat?
I'm in a similar boat to you, starting up a campaign. Page 184 of the Fed-Klingon war book seems to have something on ship swarms which I'll probably pick-up and see how goes.

There's likely youtube, continuingmissions, and forum support too but I haven't AI'd it to find a best practice.

>>96465486
I hate the Shangri-La. I like it when you see natural evolution in ship design from one generation to another. But when you have was is obviously just a throwback that makes little sense in being around when other ships are around that show their progress, it just irks me to no end.

>>96462110
Why do these future starships all require skylights for their main hulls? Does the Federation just hate windows after the 2400s?

>>96469360
It makes perfect sense given its fluff of
>Oh dear the Excelsior project is a shitshow and the Connie is a creaking relic even with refits, we need a new asskicker quicksharp before the ruffleheads get any ideas...

>>96462110
not running scatterpack and wild weasel shuttles is silly. they pump out so much ECM and ECCM AND they let you focus your own ship's power on weapons and shields and engines.

>>96465495
>>96465486
its fucking beautiful.
>>96469577
you fucking take that back, you filthy heretic!
the excelsior project WAS a success. TNG warp 10 is about tOS warp 15-18. and the warp scale re-defined co-incided with the excelsior project, so whilst it DID NOT provide a working transwarp system
(even the borg in TNG only had a transwarp network because they built fucking macroscalar engineering projects in the form of transwarp conduit gates)

the excelsiors massive nacelles, hugely increased warp coils and the sheer engine power of how much warp plasma she could generate, helped her lead science into the re-done warp scale, finding far better, more efficient ways of doing warp.

AND, you ingrate, whilst the connie was a heavy Cruiser, the excelsior entered service a Battleship. being over twice the size of a connie.

Shangri-La is obviously a connie, but rebuilt or redesigned heavily to slant the entire purpose towards combat. a science or exploration vessel she aint. she is clearly a torpedo spitting death machine with all those extra toooooooobs.

>>96469792
I fucking love Scatterpacks and Wild Weasels, it's a fun clicky.

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Speaking of attack shuttles, you need ships to carry them, and what better carrier than this bad boy?

>>96469011
Am I missing something or is the swarm's scale just chosen arbitrarily?

>>96462110
Star Trek Online was a mistake.

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>>96473876
You mean "based" right?

>>96469360
It was the last gasp of the Constitution-craze which led to everything in TOS being some variation of the same basic saucer. Fixes the weak neck issue that makes Connies liable to do an involuntary saucer seperation whenever their shields are down.

>>96473887
Sutherland, my beloved.

>>96473887
>>96476091
Looks like it has two saucer sections like the SFB Gorn ships.

>>96473687
>Excelsior with less space and a weaker warp field

Cool

>>96477166
I believe the Curry class had basically just as much internal volume as the Excelsior and why would it have a weaker warp field?

>>96462110
is kitty hawk edition full of catboys and birdgirls
aand or
birdboys and catgirls

>>96477210
Yes to both.

>>96477214
huzzah

>>96477202
I thought it was missing the neck, but I guess it has one. As for the warp field, those nacelles aren't Excelsior's and Excelsior wouldn't use those for 80 years if they were inferior.

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>>96466332
Fuck Terry Matalas and fuck New Jersey

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