Markab - Idea for the fleet

[Calistan]

Since I've been thinking of making a Markab Fleet, Ive decided to start putting stats to possible ships.

Here are three ship designs and I would like input on balancing them and the names will change.

Fleet Special - Scatter Guns ignore interceptors.

Skirmish
Dagger Class Light Cruiser
Speed 8
Hull 5
Turns 2/90
Damage 18/5
Crew 22/5
Troops 2
Craft 0
Specials: 1 Anti-Fighter


Light Scatter Gun 10 B 6AD SAP
Light Plasma Torpedo 20 F 4AD AP, DD, Slow Loading



Raid
Lancer Class Cruiser
Speed 6
Hull 6
Turns 2/90
Damage 30/6
Crew 34/6
Troops 3
Craft: 1 light fighter
Specials: Jump Engine, 1 anti-fighter


Scatter Gun 10 B 6AD SAP, DD
Plasma Cannon 10 F 4AD AP
Plasma Cannon 10 P 8AD AP
Plasma Cannon 10 S 8AD AP


Battle

Defender Class Battle Cruiser
Speed 6
Hull 6
Turns 2/45
Damage 58/8
Crew 64/10
Troops 4
Craft 4
Specials: Jump Engine, 6 anti-fighter, Escort


Combat Laser 20 F 8AD Beam
Particle Repeater 12 F 8AD Twin-Linked
Particle Repeater 12 P 8AD Twin-Linked
Particle Repeater 12 S 8AD Twin-Linked
Particle Repeater 12 A 8AD Twin-Linked

 

[Banichi]

Those look like pretty good stats. Maybe giving the ships more relious type names might be more fitting with the Markab fluff. They were a pretty pious lot, right up to point were they all died from the dratha plague.

 

[Spideredd]

have you given any thought to fighters?

 

[Kosh127]

does anyone know if AOG made ships for them???

 

[Lone Gunman]

Yes, AOG once designed a whole fleet for them, in the Dilgar War Expansion I think. Main weapons were Plasma Waves and Pulse Cannons, secondary batteries were Scatter Guns and a weapono called Stun Beam.

 

[Kosh127]

very interesting. I would like to see them in the game. The Red helms would be intresting to as they could be an almost blank slate for MGP to create some new stuff.

 

[Calistan]

When I see Plasma Wave, I think space flame thrower.

 

[Spideredd]

Hmm.
Flame thrower goodness.
Hmm.
This game needs a flame thrower.
Hmm.

 

[Da Boss]

hmm a flamethrower does sound interesting - maybe something like a Solar flare?

 

[Lord David the Denied]

A plasma beam, then? We already have those...

 

[No. 1 Bear]

hmm a flamethrower does sound interesting - maybe something like a Solar flare?

great idea. It would be like opening up the power of the sun a ship and burning it in a fun and rather evil way :twisted:

 

[stryve]

And the fluff on the plasma beam does say something about it being 'aquired' League technology...

 

[Calistan]

I think the way it would work is that the ship would have to generate an intense magnetic field and then propagate waves of plasma into that field.

Basically, make an elongated bubble and fill it with hot stuff.