Why The Akira Class Never Has Torpedos

posted on November 20th, 2005, 1:49 am

to be more specific if u read the DITl site better you will See text in white is speculation and yellow is cannon therefore they have no useful info on the steam runner

all i can say is i prefer to think that the steam runner is a fast patrol ship

and akira is a heavy cruiser

posted on November 20th, 2005, 12:32 pm

i think most poeple agree that the akira is a heavy cruiser, and i'm one of em.

posted on November 20th, 2005, 1:07 pm

in the FC battle, what would you say its role was?
Akira = heavy cruiser; Saber & Norway = Destroyer & Frigate; Steamrunner =

posted on December 6th, 2005, 1:26 pm

The akira is a heavy cruise and has 15 torp tubes is should at least fire sum or they should change the ship to something else

posted on December 6th, 2005, 1:28 pm

if the akira had torpedoes, it would be too powerful, and would make the federation quite unbalanced

posted on December 6th, 2005, 4:44 pm

disagreed. important would be the sum of damage out of torps and phasers. If they are going to implement torps they would weak phasers. RTS however stand in conflict with their originals ( movie, series ) 50 % RTS 50 % real StarTrek. You need to compromise.

[teh-plaf]

posted on December 6th, 2005, 4:46 pm

Last edited by teh-plaf on December 6th, 2005, 4:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.

if they add torps, weaken phasers-- whats the point? the feds already have that, times two, intrepids and remores

also take in the fact that they can shoot down torpedoes, no its just too much

posted on December 6th, 2005, 5:45 pm

if they add torps, weaken phasers-- whats the point? the feds already have that, times two, intrepids and remores

also take in the fact that they can shoot down torpedoes, no its just too much

like i keep repeating, just switch the standard weaponry of the intrepid & akira around then balance is preserved .

posted on December 6th, 2005, 6:28 pm

and the point is ... what.. exactly... if you just switch the weaponry? so a small ship now has powerful phasers, and a medium ship now has weaker phasers but also torps. seems fine the way it is

posted on December 6th, 2005, 9:35 pm

don't know what to think actually. cept the akira needs torps.

posted on December 7th, 2005, 4:46 pm

and the point is ... what.. exactly... if you just switch the weaponry? so a small ship now has powerful phasers, and a medium ship now has weaker phasers but also torps. seems fine the way it is

read the whole thread & you'll see the point (or maybe you wont )

posted on December 7th, 2005, 5:13 pm

I thought his point was to swap the intrepid and akira around in terms of torpedos so basically, intrepid has tricobalts and weak phasers and the akira has strong phasers and photon torpedos.

This would make more sense to me and I think it would work quite well

posted on December 7th, 2005, 9:01 pm

I thought his point was to swap the intrepid and akira around in terms of torpedos so basically, intrepid has tricobalts and weak phasers and the akira has strong phasers and photon torpedos.

This would make more sense to me and I think it would work quite well

thank you. at least one other person gets it. plus with that special avatar, you could make it so that the intrepid/akira benefits are reversed.

posted on December 7th, 2005, 10:25 pm

u need to make the intepids realy fast , shoot tri cobalts , and go through nebulaus undameged?

posted on December 8th, 2005, 6:53 pm

er... why?
they have tricobalts as specials already, its a decent speed. when did you ever see voyager go through a nebula without incident. lol whenever a nebula came up they made an entire episode out of it