AlphaAce,
Thanks for the input.
You’re right they could have had more, spread out covering their space but because they are machines and not living organisms their needs are different. For example if they found a planet inhabited by a low technology race, they would not need to send a Baseship to subdue them. A few inexpensive transports and fighters would do.
For the Cylons Baseships would be better used out on their frontiers acting as forward basses, very much the way we use a modern carrier. Once bases are established carriers become supplemental or can be moved elsewhere.
But I think, if the Cylons had more they would have used them in taking down the Colonials. After all time was on their side, they had time to marshal their forces and plan in detail how the attack would be carried out. Rather like Japan at Pearl Harbor they used every thing they had.
As a comparison, Moore’s version depicts a Cylon Empire with the forces necessary to hit and stay. He depicts a much more powerful enemy, more like the US forces at the end of WWII.
