Suggestion: New Ship Classes

[Slartibartfast]

You could also do an AGEIS escort. Load it with gatling guns. Special ability to extend the range of the guns to 3" and be able to provide coveing fire against incoming torps, missles, and bordars. It could work against any of those things in range not just targeting against the escort.

 

[MongooseMatt]

We have looked at doing dedicated escorts with rules along these lines for the forthcoming supplement - they may wait until 2012 though.

 

[Trozak]

O.K. leaning on historical ships

How about a Battlecruiser, sacrificing armour/shields for speed and armament, something to chase and destroy smaller ships but faster than the Dreadnoughts

Armoured/ protected cruisers same armour as a dreadnought but with less armament!

Anti fighter/bomber escorts up to light cruiser size

Torpedo Ram ships

As boarding and capturing vessels is a big part of the game it would be fun to have a system of using the captured craft in your own fleets, maybe with points based upgrades that can use House specific atributes!

Trozak