Lit Fleet Junkie Flagship- The technical discussions of the GFFA (Capital Ships thread Mk. II)

I want to draw special attention here to the attack squadron of Z-95s in Republic colors. Look guys, it's everything we thought the Clone Wars would be 15 years ago!

 

As the fighting went on, there might have been another Subjugator shown in TCW; though with saying that, the CIS is generally well represented with serious combat ships (either the CIS in unique or most of the EU has kinda been going on an incorrect interpretation of what was seen in the ST, which in a way, seems to be the case. 2-3 kilometer long ships are abundant with the CIS with their smallest line ship being 1 km. -- I don't think the CIS is unique).

I actually don't mind the later battles they've shown, and I saw them getting better and better, just that they were showing less of the actual battle; the battle over Umbara, the Sullust action, the Citadel, and the ambush on Obi-Wan's battle group in the padawan episodes were quite good, visually. Though the episodes with relatively long range exchanges were better to me, such as episode 6 (I don't even mind the tanks taking out unshielded frigates like most seem to -- tanks are designed to fire armor piercing ammunition, and if they can get through the hull and set something off..., boom).

I just wished they showed Acclamator ships shooting; I guess they truly were unarmed.

 

The X-wings in ANH did the same thing, they boiled off the outer layers of the battle station's hull. The Falcon used concussion missiles and Wedge's X-wing used proton torpedos against the DSII main reactor's hull in ROTJ. Seeing tanks do something similar to capital ships, on their unprotected portions, in TCW, isn't inconsistent with the films. The common denominator is that the target is either unshielded or lightly shielded.

Acclamators fired shots at the Battle of Kamino and the Battle of Sullust, iirc.

 

You do know the Z-95 gets used a lot in the later part of TCW, right?

 

Nope. Everything comes from Venators at Kamino and Venators and Arquitens at Sullust (you see an Arquitens letting off through a window just after the Venator gets it).

 

I think that it was awesome that they included the Z-95s into the series. They were always my favorite fighter from since the early days of the EU (I was always more of a warship person though, so the Dreadnaught CAs were my overall back in the school days).

 

Via the Toy Fair looks like we have a new TIE fighter from Rebels.

Boy I hope they bring back the titanium series soon.

 

It's the T.I.E Fighter! Finally!

Actually, what's funny is that an XWA mod had chosen that McQuarrie(sp?) drawn TIE as the TIE l/n precursor a long time ago.

 

Wouldn't it be the Imperial-era TIE starfighter and not the Republic-era T.I.E. starfighter?
Also, the Inquisitor's TIE Advanced isn't an x1 model.

 

Looks pretty cool, though to me the Inquisitor TIE Advanced looks different on the box behind it. I wonder what it lacks over the X1, hyperdrive maybe?

 

It looks more like a Rebels version of the TIE starfighter, but with curved wings, like the Sith Infiltrator.

 

The curved wing one is the regular TIE starfighter.

The Inquisitor TIE "Advanced" is actually the model that becomes the TIE L/N. (or it's very close to the same)

This picture makes that clear.



Kewl. I've never said kewl about the Clone Wars because nothing was kewl in that series.

 

Thanks, that makes a lot more sense

 

You be crazy, man. Crazy.

Arquitens. All of Umbara. Z-95; precursor Y-Wing; massive Sep. warships; Mil. Consulars; Malevolence; more of the Givinex and Nantex fighters. Trident assault ships (space squid!), and on and on and on and on.

Seriously. There's so much awesome mechanics in TCW that it ain't funny.

 

I'm an old and curmudgeony viewer.

This bit of continuity is the best thing they've accomplished in a long while.

 

The artificial ringed planet. The white dots along the ring are from a rather serious naval battle.

 

Is that from the sixth season of TCW?

 

Yep. It's from the first arc (the order 66 revelation one). I got some screens from a stream; some more:





Notice the rather large Republic fleet and the Predator droid (she ain't just atmo capable).

 

Thanks! There are at least 15 Venator-class Star Destroyers present. Interesting...

 

It seems like there's at least 15; this is what appears to be the main body of the fleet after they pulled back due to some story stuff (there's also Arquitens, Consulars and Acclamators around). A serious amount of firepower, and it's not said to be anything special in regards to buildup (though my German ain't the best). There's several Sep. Dreadnoughts (like Invincible), a few heavy destroyers and some frigates on the other side of the planet.



That's all I managed to get.

 

To add,

Kamino seems to have a couple of Venators in station keeping above the city (hovering on repulsors). Which makes sense given its importance.

The Kamino transport pods are amazingly cool (the egg shaped small craft); they're fast as hell. Easily moving several times the speed of sound in atmo.

 

Awesome ringworld. Makes the two Death Stars miniscule in comparison.

So, it wasn't Kuat, then?

 

Very nice image. Fleets that large were rarely seen in TCW, so it is nice to see such a large formation of capital ships. I think the only other time we have seen that many VenStars together was during the Kamino battle arc, where there was like a dozen of them in a line, IIRC.

Be interesting to see what planet that ends up being.

--Adm. Nick

 

Apparently a Separatist world ("ringed world"); I couldn't catch a name.

It's ambiguous regarding who ends up in control of it. Thought it appears that the Republic has the larger force in space.

The ring itself is probably about half a Venator wide.

 

Neat - which reminds me:


I saw this again the other day, and between that and the battles of Solomon and A Bao Qu in Gundam, I think Star Wars needs more giant space stations - they serve as neat set pieces for fleet battles.