Favourite veteran abilities

posted on May 23rd, 2009, 6:17 am

The klingon special mixed tech ship (edjaw or something) at veteran level is virtually invincible... with the special war-impulse engines it gets that ships could easily outrun a hyper_impulse saber... federation are my new fav allies when playing as klingons. The ship is soooo tough you can send in into the middle of an enemy fleet and it will take a long time to kill. Anyway just came off of a really good kling vs fed game and love the klingons.

posted on May 23rd, 2009, 2:16 pm

Hi all,

I'm not sure if one already exists, or has just been asked for so I made a simple one myself.  It's likely many of you have already experienced most of them 1st hand, but likely many haven't (such as myself).  I am pretty sure I got them all, but I can update it if anyone spots any mistakes or anything missing.  The list is in PDF format (size 169 KB), but if needed I can put it up in DOC, DOCX and/or TXT.
Enjoy.

P.S.  This is the 1st time I am attaching a file on any forum really, so I hope I am doing this right...

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posted on May 23rd, 2009, 2:34 pm

  Nice, but would be helpful to attach the specs for every class, offensive, defensive and system values.  Thanks for the effort.

posted on May 23rd, 2009, 3:40 pm

Nice Vorsath, got is out before I did hehe :p

posted on May 23rd, 2009, 6:27 pm

   Nice, but would be helpful to attach the specs for every class, offensive, defensive and system values.  Thanks for the effort.

And maybe the Level 5 abilitys. 

[mimesot]

posted on May 23rd, 2009, 9:53 pm

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I really like the generix vateran abilitier, both of them! The "Systemwide Interconnectors" are awesome.

I personally are a little disappointed by the romulan "specualized defense", as it is neither very romulan, nor an adequate to "otpimized shield gometry", which greatly boosts the battleduration of intrepid and co. Again the d'deridex will get reduced attention.

In stark contrast the tavara has a most unbelievably good veteran ability!!!

posted on May 24th, 2009, 2:34 am

   Nice, but would be helpful to attach the specs for every class, offensive, defensive and system values.  Thanks for the effort.

This is meant to be just a veteran abilities list, the exact stats and all may take a while.  I think Dircome is making a full ship list with stats and everything already, but if I have time later I might update the list with the offensive, defensive and system values.

Nice Vorsath, got is out before I did hehe :p

Ooops, took me about an 1 1/2 hours to compile the list as well as scour through the file and make sure I had every ship.  You can use my list in any way you want in your mega-guide, assuming you haven't already compiled one yourself 

[Dominus_Noctis]

posted on May 24th, 2009, 3:15 am

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Thank you sir 
This is what I've come up with so far (indeed adding a few of your veteran abilities in there  ), as a little teaser--far from done, but a good start for the Romies Unit Overview at least. 

/EDIT/ Attachment removed: everyone will see the finished product after this Sunday 

posted on May 24th, 2009, 6:58 am

Might not be the most obvious, but the Akira's veteran ability to punch through with all torpedoes and deal direct hull damage is pretty amazing, with the exception of against the Borg (since they don't have shields to begin with).  I'd probably have non-Federation favorites if I ever played non-Federation, haha...

posted on May 25th, 2009, 2:39 pm

No love for the Sovereign?

Doubled shield regeneration rate plus a ridiculous boost in shield and hull pts?  And when you add to that 32% damage reduction from non-officer ships, you just can't kill the thing. 

The Descent is also fairly nasty with the 60% reduction in cooldown for it's "Oh, you thought I had no shields left - look again" ability.

posted on May 25th, 2009, 2:49 pm

Doubled shield regeneration rate plus a ridiculous boost in shield and hull pts?  And when you add to that 32% damage reduction from non-officer ships, you just can't kill the thing. 

It's about time it was able to survive more than a few shots.

posted on May 25th, 2009, 5:34 pm

The veteran ability for the V13 battleship (hope that´s the right name, damn dominion designations) becomes a fleet killer when using excessive strike at 12 (!) targets. 

posted on May 26th, 2009, 12:23 am

Okay, so maybe I greatly overlooked the Sov and Descent...I had the joy of playing with the latter at Veteran strength in an instant-action today, and I will say...there aren't many words that describe the Romulan-crushing that thing did.  The Sovereign I've never quite managed to get to Veteran status yet, they've always gotten killed off under heavy fire around the yards the few times I've put effort into getting them - my tactic tends to be lots and lots of non-Eraudi-yard ships, haha, with maybe a Phalanx or Sovereign and a repair or support ship to back them up.

posted on May 27th, 2009, 3:30 am

Hey maybe just a thought on Special abilities:
Switch the D'Deridex's Stealth Field and the Norexan's Multi-Purpose Weapons.

Why? because we've seen the D'Deridex use a variety of weapons from its uber-nose port





On the other hand we've never seen the Norexan's fire a beam weapon at all. Besides the swap wouldn't be a big deal but would add some needed punch to the side-lined D'Deridex.

[Dominus_Noctis]

posted on May 27th, 2009, 5:08 am

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Sorry mate, I absolutely abhor that idea: The D'deridex needs the Stealth Field in its role, as this is a slow expensive support ship essentially. The Norexan gets loads of weapons because it is a quick attacker and available earlier on (hec  k, you need a good excuse to get a D'deridex, and the Stealth Field is a great excuse)