Empire at War Craft Index

[DK_Viceroy]

And I'm insulted to be placed under the Catagory of American I'm British and Proud of it and also the Resident Star Wars Guru.

[Jan Gaarni]

The Imperator classification name, which is the same star destroyers you see in the films, stems from the Mandel Blueprints, published in 1978. I've never heard anything about George ever calling it that, but the Mandel schematics predates West End Games classification, which really just is a big missunderstanding and poor research into the Star Destroyers. Unfortunatly, the later publications since the West End Games blooper has adopted the Imperial-Class term.

 

The Executor-Class has the same problem with its Super term.

[Dagobahn Eagle]

I wonder why you've put a non-existant ship in that list there is no such thing as an Imperator Class Star Destroyer, it's a common mistake people make to mistake the Imperial class 1 and 2's as one class under the name Imperator The Main Visual difference can be seen in terms of engines the rest of the differneces are internal with a few other inor details as well as mosr firepower.

As was mentioned, it is indeed the Imperator-class.

 

Just like the Super Star Destroyer is the Executor-class, not the "Super-class" (c'mon, classes are named by the first ship of the line... A ship called the "Super" sounds silly to me).

 

The "Imperial-class myth" (and it's a strong one, seeing even the official SW site is mistaken about it:D) is just another video game mistake, just like mistaking the radars and reactor of the Star Destroyers for shield generators.

[DK_Viceroy]

IF the offical site has it as Imperial than it is gosphel even the movies support it all reliable EU states it as Imperial so off your high horses your wrong.

[Dagobahn Eagle]

It wouldn't be the first time the official site was wrong.

 

But let's get back on topic here.

[Cheech Marin]

Originally posted by Dagobahn Eagle

It wouldn't be the first time the official site was wrong.

 

Only wrong in your mind.

[lukeiamyourdad]

Wrong or not, it is the most accepted name for the ISD now. So Imperial it is.

[Cheech Marin]

Why don't we just call it Imp and Imp-Deuce. Drop the -erial. Or -erator, if you're Dagobahn Eagle. Makes things simpler that way.

[lukeiamyourdad]

Good idea. From now on, we should call it the ISD. Short for both, works for all. It was this way in Tie Fighter.

 

 

nuff said.

[Jan Gaarni]

Originally posted by DK_Viceroy

IF the offical site has it as Imperial than it is gosphel even the movies support it all reliable EU states it as Imperial so off your high horses your wrong.

Movies doesn't support anything on this actually, neither does the the movie novels. To my knowledge, there is no mention whatsoever on what class the ISD is in any canon sources.

 

EU is, like with the "shield/sensor" dome issue, divided on this subject. And like with the sensor dome issue, the very first time the Imperator Class term was used was back in 1978, which, again, predates any newer reference.

 

Just because half the EU doesn't do good enough research doesn't make it right.

 

So if I, or anyone else, choose to use the Imperator term, we are in no more wrong than someone who says Imperial.

 

Though if you say out loud "I just spotted an Imperial Imperial-Class Star Destroyer" it does tend to sound rather, well, stupid.

 

 

 

Now that that is settled, get back on topic.

[starmark2k]

This is a great thread Dagobahn Eagle and i've made some observations on screenshots on the official site. There appears to be a tank like the fighter tank out of battlefront for the empire and a single turret tank for the rebels.

[Hermie]

First off, great list, it deserves a sticky!

 

 

Just a note, the power generators are confirmed to be shield generators, and asteroid fields WILL play an active part in the game, they'll both slow you down and damage you, if I remember correctly...