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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] Cheers Kenny, you're quite right. Sheilds are for sheilding vulnerable things and they do it quite nicely. [QUOTE] Also a troop ship would want to maximize load-lifting capacity by having fewer weapons. I suspect Starfleet might have dedicated ground attack/close support ships, something like Cobra attack copters. [/QUOTE]It's tricky because I don't think that there is any direct analogy in modern day hardware, on the one hand it's a short range interstellar craft, on the other it's a landing vehicle with moderate weaponary. My thinking is that these craft have warp drive so that they are not dependant upon a mother-ship with large shuttle support facilities. Instead they can travel in groups of three or six with a reletivly small task force, say only a Cruiser, a couple Destroyers and some support ships and perhaps a fighter escort. The large turret on top of the craft (which I am in the process of revising) is really for supressive or dispersive fire against buildings, fortifications or weapons emplacements. It's not really suitible for vehicle-to-vehicle combat given it's limited field of fire, infact I'm not sure if I even want it to be a phaser. I've come up with an alternative design for the fron ball turrets, which are primaraly anti-personnel in nature but can be effective against hostile craft, but again the limited feild of fire is, well...limiting. [IMG]http://lobotomy.pleh.net/~flareupload/uploads/335/roto-turret.gif[/IMG] I made it a little unusual, in that it has three mounted emitter crystals that rapidly rotate around the center, giving off a high rate of fire without overheating too early. I also happen to like moving parts on ships plus this kind of thing give's the 3D modelers migrains. ;) Again with the missiles, I've been very lazy by just sticking four of them on the hard-points instead of giving it a more moderate mix of sensor equipment, fuel pods and lower yield ordinance. What you see here is the most destructive payload available, not the most common. As Kenny suggested they are probably smart-missiles, launched before landing to take out significant threats near the landing zone or to help clear orbital defences/obstructions. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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