Ascendancy Daily Screenshot Thread

[tlmiller]

Meh, assault frigates die fast enough that it won't destroy that fleet due to their pitiful turbolaser damage (although early game, yes, the AF is fantastic because it doesn't need corvettes to escort it, and in larger numbers can threaten even capital ships).  It's the 50 BAC's you need to be terrified of.

[kucsidave]

Meh, assault frigates die fast enough that it won't destroy that fleet due to their pitiful turbolaser damage (although early game, yes, the AF is fantastic because it doesn't need corvettes to escort it, and in larger numbers can threaten even capital ships).  It's the 50 BAC's you need to be terrified of.

I can imagine.

Ah... I so can't wait to get my hands on a Bellator. No matter if it's in Ascendancy or ICW.

[Pentastar Enforcer]

Meh, assault frigates die fast enough that it won't destroy that fleet due to their pitiful turbolaser damage (although early game, yes, the AF is fantastic because it doesn't need corvettes to escort it, and in larger numbers can threaten even capital ships).  It's the 50 BAC's you need to be terrified of.

Are you referring to ICW or Ascendancy, because I have ICW down to a formula and the NR isn't that much of a threat (except for their BACs, so hence stay in Era 1) in Ascendancy however, they mix the two for devastating effects. Usually I can overpower them but the problem is that they send them early in the game.

[tlmiller]

Ascendancy, no limit (other than fleet and command) to fleet sizes.

The AI does love to bring AF's early, but they can easily be defeated if you use the right ship complements.  Doesn't even require many ships.  The only irritating thing about the AF in terms of defeating them is the jedi clone trick with them.  Makes their fleets look AMAZINGLY large.  However, they're not very effective against combat ships overall, and their greatest danger is their fighters, which the clones don't spawn quick enough to be a threat.  Rarely does the AI use the AF in a support fashion where it truly shines.  A few AF's with a MC-80/MC-80B and a fleet commander and they actually become quite deadly in the early game.

[tlmiller]

So nothing that's not already in the public beta (I think), but cool shots nevertheless since there hasn't been any posts for a while.

First, the planet Jerelec with full infrastructure dedicated to arming the fleet.  And lightly defended itself (if you're counting, that's a titan facility, 3 capital facilities, 4 Frigate facilities, 3 Golan III's, 2 Golan II's, and 3 Golan I's).


Second, a fairly decent sized fleet (~50 ships, Sovereign, 4x ISD-II, Praetor FC, ISD-I FC, ISD-I, Altor, 5x VSD-I, 3x VSD-II, 7x Dreadnaught, 10x Strike-Cruiser, 10x Lancer, 5x Escort Carriers, 2x Immobilizer 418), with of course the up close and personal on the Sovereign.

[Eclipse]

I love that in Ascendacy ships are in thei "true" size, seeing a sovereign in comparison with ISD makes me realize why it was a very useful psicological weapon

[Lord Xizer]

Nevermind the Sovereign, just look at the Executor class next to the Praetors to truly see colossal!

[tlmiller]

Not a huge difference.  1.6 < 15 vs. 4.8 < 19.  While it is a slightly larger difference, percentage-wise much smaller difference.  Although at 15 km vs. 19 km, they're both gargantuan.  Very little difference when you see them on the screen at the same time.

[Eclipse]

Nevermind the Sovereign, just look at the Executor class next to the Praetors to truly see colossal!

I know executor is way larger, it's just that sovereing looks more massive, while executor seems thiner.

 While writing this I was thinking, will mankind ever do something like that I mean I'm sure it won't be today, nor tomorrow and I'll be dead and won't see it but let's say in a thousand years are we going to rule the galaxy with gigantic super ships or something as cool as that? Just wondering hahaha

[tlmiller]

I know executor is way larger, it's just that sovereing looks more massive, while executor seems thiner.

 While writing this I was thinking, will mankind ever do something like that I mean I'm sure it won't be today, nor tomorrow and I'll be dead and won't see it but let's say in a thousand years are we going to rule the galaxy with gigantic super ships or something as cool as that? Just wondering hahaha

Well, even in the Star Wars universe the Dreadnoughts were short lived as anything other than defensive vessels.  By the legacy era dreadnoughts were basically extinct (although I'm sure KDY still kept some setting around in defense of it's shipyards, as that's what the Mandator I was designed for, simply defending KDY holdings during the Republic).

[Corey]

Assuming that kind of space travel or interplanetary/interstaller civilizations ever become a thing, it's not terribly unreasonable that we might someday make spaceships that big, whether for commercial, military or civilian purposes. The largest naval ships we have are already about a third the length of ISDs (mostly oil tankers, with military vessels being a 6th)

[tlmiller]

And we're having like Star Wars.  While at the end of WWII big Battleships were the future of naval warfare, the US no longer has any active Battleships, they've all been replaced by smaller, faster, more maneuverable missile cruisers and gunboats.

[Brutoni]

And we're having like Star Wars.  While at the end of WWII big Battleships were the future of naval warfare, the US no longer has any active Battleships, they've all been replaced by smaller, faster, more maneuverable missile cruisers and gunboats.

Even at the end of WW2 the battleship had been made obsolete. Light cruisers, destroyers and carriers formed the modern battlefleet and all 3 types of ship had proved to be truly flexible and formidable in battle!

Submarines but the final nail in the coffin of a battleship and in the 60s when Nuclear submarines came along they become the "modern battleship".

[Lord Xizer]

Bigger isn't always better. Big guns gave way to aircraft and long rsnge missiles.  Battleships were awesome and always have an awe about them but their days as central units of a fleet are long past sadly.

[Eclipse]

Bigger isn't always better. Big guns gave way to aircraft and long rsnge missiles.  Battleships were awesome and always have an awe about them but their days as central units of a fleet are long past sadly.

Indeed you are right, but that's here on the ground (or sea) space might be way different, you might just need to make a flying city with guns to make it suitable for large trips and conquest, and that means something big

[tlmiller]

The problem could come down to the same as the dreadnoughts though.  While big, heavily armed, they were simply so slow that they could be defeated by smaller ships that could easily outmaneuver them.

[Eclipse]

I get the feeling that slow in space isn't that slow actually, it's pretty fast, and besides if you have a bigger ship you can have a bigger engine and that means faster and also you can carry more fuel, while a small ship would be suitable for garrison and a short range of action, I belive that big ones are required for larger trips, just my opinion

[tlmiller]

Doing some testing tonight, so figured I'd post this screenshot of the IR fleet having an "oh, fooey" moment.

[Corey]

Dominator Star Destroyer

[tlmiller]

I'm guessing you fixed that the Dominator didn't inderdict that you bothered building one.