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Old March 5th, 2012, 10:48 AM   #100
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Default Re: Where Are The Fleets?

It seemed to me while Battlestars had greater fighter capacity (with superior fighters), they didn't have any large-scale armaments visible from afar (like the turbolaser batteries on the flanks of an ISD). Though what about the Pegasus missiles? This kind of thinking is going into fan-war territory but hey, for the purposes of comparisons.

Without her fighters I think raiders have an advantage over a Battlestar if most of her armaments are configured for anti-ship attacks. Five Battlestars and a handful of fighters couldn't fight off several (three?) base-ship's worth of raiders at Cimtar, which has to suggest something. My guess is that the colonials shifted back to a heavy gun mentality after moving into space, as much of our modern earth-bound fighting force relies on fighters.

An interesting thought is why the colonials don't have fighter-based missiles if they have the Pegasus ones. Maybe a case of borrowed technology from another civilization they never developed and fully understood? (VFX is the obvious answer, but it's still something we fans can ponder).
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