I think it's only worth considering if it did not take up a module, like two does. Otherwise you may as well pay the extra expense for double the Aft fire power. If it doesn't take a module, I would happily pay for it.
We're already at the point where a Darwin will overmatch a Newton, with the update we just had being relatively complementary of the Newton.
It's more-or-less what I'd been hoping for leading into this vote, but single standard launchers are cheap, and we'd probably lose the module anyway, so why not mount the second?
And what is the federation? just humanity and all the aliens are just doing their own thing like watching tv with a beer?
Until the Klingons barge in, smash the TV, then loudly brag about their beer being the best and its revealed to be budlite.
Well, the "less filling, tastes great" brand they prefer is clearly letting them kick our asses around the quadrant, so they're on to something.
I really think a New Romulian Republic succeeding from the Star Empire with Federation and Klingon backing Ala STO would be an amazing premise, Star Trek Show and Quest. Slightly off topic.
Yeah it definitely hurts. Sliver lining is that Excalibur has definitely proved herself, just needs better support.
I do find it strange that we somehow went from "your massive unified economy and culture allows you to build ships at a rate that terrifies the Romulans" to "You have literally 1/6th the ability to produce ships as the Klingons".
The qm is not just going to kill the quest in a few updates.
Pretty much. The klingons have this won if they decide to push again into the core worlds and destroy our wartime infrastructure. By the time the new Excaliburs are mostly done the Klingon could have 50+ D7 and 200+ D6 at our doorstep and just roll over them. If they can't win a 3 on 1, something worse isn't possible.
We don't have enough ships to stop them, if a full third of our fleet got dusted and the Klingons outnumber us 3 to 1 or more on every engagement? We don't have enough ships to stop them. Not unless we someone destabilize the Houses in charge of the fleet and they turn on each other and leave us time to build more. Which even then we can't outbuild the Klingons, and every win they get permanently diminishes our ability to keep up. Like they can strike Earth NOW and just got our ability to put up a fight and win. Full stop.
Conversely, consistently high demand may result in a build-out of RFL manufacturing capability.
Bit late for that, unless you've got some necromancers tucked away somewhere?
If it was unrecoverable, we'd have game-over'd already.
So, Current Status is "We're pretty much done unless A) Something else notices a weak front elsewhere along the Empire's borders and gets them to break off from curbstomping us, or B) Overconfidence or internal divisions cause significant and prolonged strategic and tactical blunders on the Empire's part.", then?
The problem is that the numbers must be wrong for things to make sense. The numbers as given don't make sense producing a result other than the Federation losing to the Klingons.
