I keep taking stabs at how much play one might get using the Anvil Liberator as an escort carrier, able to sneak where ships like the Idris could not, sit down on a lonely asteroid and provide a mobile, secret base from which to harass and mutilate the evil Vanduul hoards. Long may they suffer, so say we all.
The Lib has 4 XS pads and an XXS pad. XS are 24m wide by 32m long. The champion deck fighter also known as the Alpha Wolf is 5.25m wide and 12m long. So 6 of them fit very easily on a single XS pad and if you squeeze them you can fit 10. It’s better to think in fighter “wings” of 6 though, so let’s do that a moment.
The Lib has just 2 beds. All the fighter pilots need beds. The Lib has an airlock, so you can dock a Retaliator to it for easy pilot transfers, and the Tally has 7 beds. So we can think in these simplified terms of a wing of six pilots supported by a Retaliator and bomber pilot for beds and torpedoes.
The Lib also has that XXS pad out front. A Mantis will fit. In fact, by squeezing the very generous deck space for each fighter just a little, you can fit a second Mantis. Now you have 4 wings with 4 bombers that each do about 2.5M damage should all their torps land. 10M damage total. You won’t be killing any Idris, but you can kill virtually anything smaller, including Perseus, Void Bombers, Polaris and maybe even the vaunted Vanduul Hunter.
You can deploy your forces across two thoroughfares close enough to reinforce each other should they pull too much ship from quantum space. You can reinforce other ships like the Polaris and make use of her 22M torp damage and now you really can take down Idris, and a whole lot more.
I like that this can be combat effective with just 1 wing operational and grow organically. Should make small group management much easier than say, crewing a Polaris.
I keep getting this all wrong so here’s my third attempt. The Eclipse bombers are gone. I think this is a much better equation. 4 wings equals winning. You think?
The Lib has 4 XS pads and an XXS pad. XS are 24m wide by 32m long. The champion deck fighter also known as the Alpha Wolf is 5.25m wide and 12m long. So 6 of them fit very easily on a single XS pad and if you squeeze them you can fit 10. It’s better to think in fighter “wings” of 6 though, so let’s do that a moment.
The Lib has just 2 beds. All the fighter pilots need beds. The Lib has an airlock, so you can dock a Retaliator to it for easy pilot transfers, and the Tally has 7 beds. So we can think in these simplified terms of a wing of six pilots supported by a Retaliator and bomber pilot for beds and torpedoes.
The Lib also has that XXS pad out front. A Mantis will fit. In fact, by squeezing the very generous deck space for each fighter just a little, you can fit a second Mantis. Now you have 4 wings with 4 bombers that each do about 2.5M damage should all their torps land. 10M damage total. You won’t be killing any Idris, but you can kill virtually anything smaller, including Perseus, Void Bombers, Polaris and maybe even the vaunted Vanduul Hunter.
You can deploy your forces across two thoroughfares close enough to reinforce each other should they pull too much ship from quantum space. You can reinforce other ships like the Polaris and make use of her 22M torp damage and now you really can take down Idris, and a whole lot more.
I like that this can be combat effective with just 1 wing operational and grow organically. Should make small group management much easier than say, crewing a Polaris.
I keep getting this all wrong so here’s my third attempt. The Eclipse bombers are gone. I think this is a much better equation. 4 wings equals winning. You think?
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