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Avenger_7 Sergeant
Posts : 906 Join date : 2012-02-10 Location : Flying my logic bomber.
| Subject: Re: Project: Shadow of Intent Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:12 pm | |
| - Tiel wrote:
- Destroyers are at least 2x the size of a frigate according to the novel The Fall of Reach. Well, maybe length as opposed to height, but still. I'm a Halo nitpicker
I remember the Iroquois as being only slightly larger than a UNSC frigate? It's been a while though... | |
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Tiel+ Lord/Lady Rear Admiral 1st
Posts : 5497 Join date : 2012-02-20 Age : 26 Location : AFK
| Subject: Re: Project: Shadow of Intent Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:23 pm | |
| In the Fall of Reach it was said a UNSC destroyer was practically a heavily armored frigate. Now, we all know around 85% of a UNSC frigate's mass is the MAC cannon and its rounds. We also know a UNSC destroyer has not one, but two MAC cannons. So ergo, a destroyer should have the mass of around two UNSC frigates, plus some due to the reinforced armor and faster engines. | |
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torrentialAberration Infantry
Posts : 727 Join date : 2012-06-20 Age : 111 Location : omnipresent
| Subject: Re: Project: Shadow of Intent Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:36 am | |
| - Tiel wrote:
- In the Fall of Reach it was said a UNSC destroyer was practically a heavily armored frigate. Now, we all know around 85% of a UNSC frigate's mass is the MAC cannon and its rounds. We also know a UNSC destroyer has not one, but two MAC cannons. So ergo, a destroyer should have the mass of around two UNSC frigates, plus some due to the reinforced armor and faster engines.
A frigate is basically a ship built around a MAC, usually around a meter of titanium hull plating and some other weapon systems with some space for personnel and vehicles. Take a frigate, wrap it in another two meters of titanium-A; add another MAC, 50 or so HEVs, about 30 more archer missile pods, and 20 point-defense turrets; and take away the space used as a hangar and you have one of the most effective antiship weapons in the UNSC. | |
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Avenger_7 Sergeant
Posts : 906 Join date : 2012-02-10 Location : Flying my logic bomber.
| Subject: Re: Project: Shadow of Intent Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:34 pm | |
| - catsonmeth wrote:
- Tiel wrote:
- In the Fall of Reach it was said a UNSC destroyer was practically a heavily armored frigate. Now, we all know around 85% of a UNSC frigate's mass is the MAC cannon and its rounds. We also know a UNSC destroyer has not one, but two MAC cannons. So ergo, a destroyer should have the mass of around two UNSC frigates, plus some due to the reinforced armor and faster engines.
A frigate is basically a ship built around a MAC, usually around a meter of titanium hull plating and some other weapon systems with some space for personnel and vehicles. Take a frigate, wrap it in another two meters of titanium-A; add another MAC, 50 or so HEVs, about 30 more archer missile pods, and 20 point-defense turrets; and take away the space used as a hangar and you have one of the most effective antiship weapons in the UNSC. In The Fall of Reach, it's stated as being only slightly larger than a frigate, but with thicker armor and moar dakka. | |
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The Schmetterling DEV
Posts : 3123 Join date : 2011-08-31 Location : I'm a butterfly.
| Subject: Re: Project: Shadow of Intent Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:36 pm | |
| Stop arguing, and just build the thing! | |
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Tiel+ Lord/Lady Rear Admiral 1st
Posts : 5497 Join date : 2012-02-20 Age : 26 Location : AFK
| Subject: Re: Project: Shadow of Intent Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:44 pm | |
| - Mackeroth? wrote:
- Stop arguing, and just build the thing!
No one's arguing. We're having an intelligent discussion | |
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torrentialAberration Infantry
Posts : 727 Join date : 2012-06-20 Age : 111 Location : omnipresent
| Subject: Re: Project: Shadow of Intent Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:54 am | |
| - Avenger_7 wrote:
In The Fall of Reach, it's stated as being only slightly larger than a frigate, but with thicker armor and moar dakka. Yes, some of the larger frigates are even longer than small destroyers with only a few meters of length difference between them. All the extra awesome accounts for the increase in mass. | |
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The Schmetterling DEV
Posts : 3123 Join date : 2011-08-31 Location : I'm a butterfly.
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