Cardassian Hutet

posted on April 6th, 2005, 5:46 pm

Over on "For the Cardies" we've been talking about the Hutet a lot, as a possible Tavara-type ship for the Cardassians. Since the ship is non-canon we have a lot of latitude concerning its abilities. Let's debate it's relative weapons, shields, and other capabilities here. I'll get the ball rolling:

Weapons: The Hutet appears to have two phaser banks of the type carried by the Keldon, approximately equivalent to a starfleet type X. The ship's engineering section size suggests a total weapon energy output of about half a Galaxy, say 40,000 Terawatts. Spiral-wave disruptors have proven almost useless against cruisers with modern auto-modulating shields, so this is definitely an anti-small ship weapon. Perhaps greater strength against Klingons? Torpedos I don't know about, but I'd guess about twice the capacity and twice the launchers of a Keldon.

Shields: The ship is big, but not huge, I'd guess shields equivalent to a pre-dominion war (non-refitted) Galaxy.

[T-Man]

posted on April 6th, 2005, 6:00 pm

Last edited by T-Man on April 6th, 2005, 6:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.

(Information gleamed from DW Website)

The Hutet was designed to garrison star systems so that more Galors could be redeployed to the front line. They are equipped with several AWACS capabilities and function much like mobile command centers. They supposedly carry a large contingent of marines for garrisoning duties, and are equipped with a repair dock for repairing other vessels.

In essence, the Hutet acts much like a Star Destroyer from SW. Move in, take a system, and then act as an HQ while any local resistance is supressed.

EDIT: Here's a link to the Hutet profile on the DW website if anyone wishes to read up on it:
http://www.simonsays.com/dominionwars_site...ro_HutetPro.htm

posted on April 6th, 2005, 7:20 pm

hmm i've looked at teh website but it sure is overpowered to be able to be a starbase like shipyard ship and have powerfull weapons and shieldings. it must have like3 of teh best warpcores in the aplhawuadrant to sustain all the energy it uses.

my idea is that it is an icebreaker in battles as all of it's fire power is at the front

posted on April 6th, 2005, 7:30 pm

as i posed in the last topic this was made from http://forum.fleetops.net/index.php?showtopic=1679&st=105


i am gess thing this ship duss not movie to fast in the last topic the idea was to have it bild/reapre ships/wepinds like remote misals.

[KL0K]

posted on April 7th, 2005, 12:14 am

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its a useable ship in the pc game dominion war.
and if i remember right it had

5 torp launchers in front, 2 in the back
and 3 heavy phaser banks in the front. (powerful like the first sovereigns ones. or somewhere above the galaxy´s.)
and it was slow as f*ck to be exact. if u had a galor it turn around 180° in 10seconds or somthin.. the hutet... man.. it took me 30-45 or more to turn it around.
and it got a really big amount of crewmen and specialteams to enter ships/stations/planets/whatever

but in attackin its devastatin. it killed nearly every big ship in that game with 4 attack rounds. even the galaxy i tried out once was bout to get its ass kicked after some torp n phaser rounds of it and got nearly destroyed without scratchin its hull.

so i think.. it would be close to the tavara or the fusioncubes in FO. but maybe slower and the same or more firepower and bigger crews to enter ships than the tavara, so somewhere near the big cubes but with the ability to enter things like the tavara plus the 'repair dock' for small ships. that makeup a badasskicker

posted on April 7th, 2005, 1:44 am

Yeah it doesn't really matter what it played like in Dominion Wars, that game was so wrong about so many ships there's no reason to model a Fleet Operations Hutet after the Dominion Wars version.

posted on April 7th, 2005, 2:36 am

True, just like how some feel that just because a BoP can defeat a Warbird in BC means that a Hutet should be the way it was in Dominion Wars. Sorry if I went off topic, but I just like using analogies. I do thank coolhandab for starting this thread because that might help bring some insight to something that deserves to be on FO.

posted on April 7th, 2005, 5:02 pm

I really dislike that ship :S

posted on April 7th, 2005, 8:59 pm

why?

posted on April 8th, 2005, 10:29 am

1. Its ugly
2. its not canon
3. its too strong
4. its not the "usual" cardie ship, they use more maneurable ships and not big-arse ones like rommies or borg
5. its ugly, oh I said that b4

[KL0K]

posted on April 8th, 2005, 12:05 pm

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so u dislike it cause the cardies could get a strong ship that would kick ass?

posted on April 8th, 2005, 1:12 pm

I dislike for all the reasons I wrote, and the cardies dont have that tactic thats my point, not that I dont want them to be strong or anything. Also cardies will be a NP race only utill the teams says otherwise and they dont need like a ton of ships, only the canons would do. Why would they add this non-canon model to them when they already have enough canon models? It makes no scence, and most of u over here know that they will be a NP race only and so they dont need so many ships in that point this post is nothing but spam or at most a question if u like that model and so should be under small talk and not feature request



If u still dont understand why I dont like the ship, well then......


.....I feel bad for u

posted on April 8th, 2005, 4:38 pm

glad to hear that u feel bad for me

nah for real. i think it could be used at some points on some maps. like to defend an cardassian oupost or somthin.
well. i would like to battle some of that ship type.

posted on April 8th, 2005, 5:38 pm

True it was powerfull in dominion wars game, and its a challenge to beat it, but I would not like for the team to have even more work than needed, let them finish first then maybe some patches or something to add such ships

And u can always take on a tavara or fusion cube, if u need a challenge

posted on April 8th, 2005, 5:42 pm

ya but you dont wont the cardys to be week. if thare gona be npc thay will just be a fater thont unless you make tham a forse to be reconed with.