@Admiral
Could you provide the source where Andy Chambers says theyre all big as 747s? In the main rulebook it says theyre relatively small and have a wide range of sizes. Also we know the older versions were not that big: thunderbolts & marauders.
Even if they are unnecessarily large, I still think its cheaper and more feasable for pirates to maintain a few squadrons of bombers than a battery of macro cannons.
It was in one of the old BFG mags if I am not mistaken. Maybe Horizon can help me out. But they were big according to Andy Chambers because BFG scale was big. And because of this, they are not feasible for a pirates to maintain. Anything larger than an escort means they need lots of manpower. Remember a cruiser originally was posited to have 8,000 crew. Now that has increased and a carrier should actually have a larger compliment compared to a gunship and they should know how to fly these things to as well as have a crew that can operate the other sections of the fighter.
Admiral, youre not being fair to me. I'm not asking for torpedos or to make the IN & Chaos fleets generic. In fact, I'm doing the opposite. Im asking for more access to AC to restore the balamce of Chaos AC to IN torpedos (a balance which already favors IN anyway).
Actually, it was more at a snipe to the current situation rather than me being unfair to you. Had no intention of being unfair to you. But really, think about it. IN has been getting access to cheap AC. So why not aside from more options for AC, that Chaos also get access to cheap torps? Same with the other races.
I like the inclusion of light cruisers. It makes smaller point games easier and more interesting without having to use the Privateer rules. It just needs to be done with balance, which is something I think GW failed to do when they released them.
I don't. Chaos already has a better ship than any LC could be and it just means the LC should at least be equal to the task of the Slaughter which from the looks of it is now coming out to be true. 4 AC on one LC chassis. Oooooooh-kay.
So I can see people in the future clamoring for the Nemesis and Jovian to become official and they might just be made official. Jovian tried to be snuck in, albeit in a most limited matter but it has. So next phase would be more accessibility. Nemesis should be up for bat next time. Then Chaos players will ask for something similar in design like the Nemesis. As will the other factions. It's a most logical direction to go in an evolutionary sense. But it will in effect make every faction generic. And then to supposedly limit the access, "1 in X number of points" clauses will be thrown this way and that or "it will only be available in this fleet list".
I much prefer the original characteristics and flavor. I also prefer a ship design to be AVAILABLE TO ALL the lists in the faction. That's the true mark of a truly good design and it will just have the simple clause of: "This ship can be included in all the fleet lists of X faction".