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June 11, 2013, 01:04:56 AMReply #20

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Re: Dev Diary #2: The Imperial Remnant
« Reply #20 on: June 11, 2013, 01:04:56 AM »
I prefer the Executor class if I'm going for cap ship annihilation. Good all around but slow, that's where the Vics come in.
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June 11, 2013, 08:33:44 AMReply #21

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« Reply #21 on: June 11, 2013, 08:33:44 AM »
The Executor is more like destroy everything in your path.

June 11, 2013, 09:12:05 AMReply #22

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Re: Dev Diary #2: The Imperial Remnant
« Reply #22 on: June 11, 2013, 09:12:05 AM »
In an ideal world, I'd use Allegiances with Venators and Victory-II's supporting.  Still get a decent amount of fighters from the Venators and then hang back a bit to engage support ships, while the VSD's maneuver to tear through the enemies important ships as they concentrate on the Allegiances.
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July 18, 2013, 10:36:25 PMReply #23

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« Reply #23 on: July 18, 2013, 10:36:25 PM »
Will you be adding the Tie Advanced?

July 18, 2013, 10:46:41 PMReply #24

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Re: Dev Diary #2: The Imperial Remnant
« Reply #24 on: July 18, 2013, 10:46:41 PM »
Will you be adding the Tie Advanced?
The TIE advanced wasn't really massed produced or used enough in general to be a mainline fighter, so doubtful.
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July 20, 2013, 10:01:35 PMReply #25

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« Reply #25 on: July 20, 2013, 10:01:35 PM »
The Executor is more like destroy everything in your path.

Yeah, altough the mod team hates super ship, I just love them. I am a "super ship spammer" when I play as the IR, and this won't be an exception. And as I will use all the super ships available the NR won't last
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July 20, 2013, 10:57:26 PMReply #26

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« Reply #26 on: July 20, 2013, 10:57:26 PM »
Yeah, altough the mod team hates super ship, I just love them. I am a "super ship spammer" when I play as the IR, and this won't be an exception. And as I will use all the super ships available the NR won't last
I don't think they hate them just they hate having absurd amounts of them just for the "rule of cool".

July 21, 2013, 01:50:18 AMReply #27

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Re: Dev Diary #2: The Imperial Remnant
« Reply #27 on: July 21, 2013, 01:50:18 AM »
I love the Executor class SSD but I try and space them out since I like the idea of them as tactical and staregic assets rather than mass spams
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July 21, 2013, 04:02:30 PMReply #28

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« Reply #28 on: July 21, 2013, 04:02:30 PM »
I love the Executor class SSD but I try and space them out since I like the idea of them as tactical and staregic assets rather than mass spams

In ICW, whenever I had the financial ability to made a couple of SSDs, they would all be assigned their own 'fleet'. So I would have 3 Executors along with an armada of support ships all pushing the enemy at once, all on different fronts. Using 2 Executors in one engagement is kind of a waste, IMO.
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July 22, 2013, 12:35:52 AMReply #29

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« Reply #29 on: July 22, 2013, 12:35:52 AM »
In ICW, whenever I had the financial ability to made a couple of SSDs, they would all be assigned their own 'fleet'. So I would have 3 Executors along with an armada of support ships all pushing the enemy at once, all on different fronts. Using 2 Executors in one engagement is kind of a waste, IMO.

I always try and recreate famous battles with them or where they were stationed when I build them. Dathomir, Bastion, Odik II, Byss, Thyferra, Kuat depending on the era
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July 23, 2013, 02:29:10 PMReply #30

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Re: Dev Diary #2: The Imperial Remnant
« Reply #30 on: July 23, 2013, 02:29:10 PM »
Well we despised Super Ships in ICW because well, the engine is awful at handling them. There was really no way to accurately represent them in the EaW engine. As well, they encourage the worst sort of fanboys who want to add every ship they can find without regard to balance or even considering why on earth we would put them in in the first place. And fact remains that they were amazingly rare in the SW universe. Only the most powerful people in the expanded universe ever had even one, and usually they weren't actually committed to combat most of the time for fear of losing them. In the ICW timeline they are pretty much irreplaceable, outside of the Emperor's fleet. And in a larger sense, they were almost entirely worthless. Sure they may dominate most battles they are in, but for the price of one you could field and support a much larger fleet of ISDs that would be much more effective in actually fighting your enemy. SSDs can only be in one place at a time, and considering that the ICW was a galaxy wide conflict...well it's far more useful to have 25 ISDs that you can send to 25 different battles at once than having 1 SSD that you can send to 1 battle...and then lose the other 24.

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« Reply #31 on: July 23, 2013, 09:53:05 PM »
Yes they were based loosely off the Yamato and Musashi from WWII. Both were created to dominate through sheer size and mass firepower any other ships afloat. Ironically this also made them irreplaceable assets to the Imperial Japanese Navy who kept them back from almost all main engagments(much like most SSDs) limiting their effectiveness to a mere fear factor. That they both succumbed to mass fighter and bomber attacks just further resembles their Star Wars counterparts.

To a degree I can admit there are some decent virtues to the SSD concept. It is a powerful fleet unto itself and required less crew than 25 ISDs would have. It's fear factor and usefulness in engagements where they were present cannot be discounted. That they were held back or often misused is more of a sign of mismanagement by those who possessed them. Much like the IJN badly misused Yamato and Musashi in WWII. It doesn't detract from the ships themselves.
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