You want to know why you get owned in autoresolve ?

[Admiral Sith]

No thats not the acclamator

 

See that ship on the upper right? Acclamator, from Episode II.

 

heres a better view

[conmanguyler]

i can see that your picture is an acclamator, i wasnt talking about that though. i was askin the guy that brought this up in the first place if the ship he saw is the link that i posted, i no what an acclamator is, i just dont remember seeing it in AOTC.

[conmanguyler]

Just watch the last scene of AOTC, the one where you see the emperor (chancelor) on the balcony overseeing clone troopers entering in Acclamators. After that one Acclamator is taking off.

 

i thought they were SD's

[conmanguyler]

soz i posted my message twice, oops

[Orao]

SD are Venator class not acclamator class. Venators are more heavy troop carriers rather than frigates as shown in EAW.

[wherryj]

lol, why do star wars name their frigates as cruisers. when i played the demo, it was really confusing

 

It's even more confusing that a Star DESTROYER is stronger than most CRUISERS. Also, why is a Dreadnaught weaker than almost all other ship classes?

 

The usual (real world) ranking of ships would be something like destroyer<frigate<cruiser<battleship<dreadnaught. That should mean that a dreadnaught would destroy a "star destroyer", but they are actually far weaker. I never understood the SW classifications...LOL

[ScorLibran]

Battleships and dreadnaughts must be mod-only (as they're not in the regular game - The Accuser and Home One are the closest things that'd qualify). And can't a mod's XML just be changed to make those unit types stronger than they are...up to what you'd expect them to be?

[wuyanxu]

It's even more confusing that a Star DESTROYER is stronger than most CRUISERS. Also, why is a Dreadnaught weaker than almost all other ship classes?

 

The usual (real world) ranking of ships would be something like destroyer<frigate<cruiser<battleship<dreadnaught. That should mean that a dreadnaught would destroy a "star destroyer", but they are actually far weaker. I never understood the SW classifications...LOL

i think destroyer is bigger than a frigate. since in Homeworld 2 destroyers are classed as capital ships whereas Frigates don't. i think it goes like this:

Fighters < Corvettes < Frigates < Destroyers < Cruisers < Battleships < Dreadnaughts < Sajuuk (hehe)

[Orao]

No in real navy ie US NAVY, Royal Navy etc destroyers are escort vessels made for one purpose alone which is anti submarine fight. They are small and rapid vessels but with not so much firepower as frigate.

 

However in modern navy those classifications are outdated. Battleship and Dreadnaught are no more.

 

What was kept is patrol boats, corvette, frigate, destroyer cruiser and carrier.

 

patroal boat is cost guard only whereas for the rest you have this :

 

corvette<destroyer <frigate<cruiser

 

Te carreir is on its own.

 

However concerning the US Navy destroyer appears to be superior to frigate. For exemple Oliver Perry class which is the frigate is inferior to the ARLEIGH BURKE-class

destroyer.

 

And for cruiser you have Ticonderoga class ships which is more cruise missile launcher than anything else.

[ScorLibran]

patroal boat is cost guard only whereas for the rest you have this :

 

corvette<destroyer <frigate<cruiser

Quite true. In the US Navy (and I think British Royal Navy too), destroyers are charged with long-range recon, hence the use of Aegis radar systems on many US destroyers, but not to be found (I think) on frigates. Their normal specialty is anti-air and some anti-surface abilities.

 

However concerning the US Navy destroyer appears to be superior to frigate. For exemple Oliver Perry class which is the frigate is inferior to the ARLEIGH BURKE-class destroyer.

Well, I wouldn't even compare many frigates to destroyers, as they have very different purposes in a fleet and/or battlegroup, and you couldn't survive in a time of war without both of them present.

 

Destroyers are mostly anti-air/anti-surface with extensive long-range recon ability. If it comes by sea or by air, they can see it coming from very long distances (like the larger Aegis cruisers can). Frigates are much more specialized - using the O.H. Perry-class as an example (and being my favorite frigate in the US Navy), it's almost purely a submarine killer. It's outfitted with advanced sonar, ASROCs and very effective Sikorsky anti-sub helicopters. If you're an enemy sub and you're being tracking by a Perry-class frigate, say your prayers. Other frigate types have equally specialized roles, while destroyers serve a slightly more multi-purpose role in a battlegroup (as they can do easily, being a larger ship).

 

EaW seems to use the "old school" ship sizing methodology, though - back when frigates were big ships; not as big as dreadnaughts, but almost the size of cruisers and definitely larger that destroyers and corvettes. The key with frigates 200-years-ago was SPEED. They were notoriously fast for their size. If you were on a ship being chased by an enemy frigate, you'd better have a strategy up your sleeve other than trying to outrun it, because you probably couldn't.

 

And for cruiser you have Ticonderoga class ships which is more cruise missile launcher than anything else.

Yes, modern cruisers are long-range missile ships, also with the long-range Aegis (and newer) recon technologies.

 

In the modern US navy, fear a cruiser if you're on land or on the sea surface, a destroyer if you're on the sea surface or in the air, and a Perry-class frigate if you're underwater. And an aircraft carrier if your pretty much anywhere.