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I started a klingon on Holodeck. I looked at a chart of what klingon ships there are, after you get out of the initial BoP and hit commander, and going on up. I just...don't...GET IT! What is the purpose for these ships? What roles do they fill? I saw that Raptors seem to be like escorts, and battlecruisers seem to be like cruisers, but what are BoPs? They have ALL universal slots? Are they whatever you want? And then theres this seige destroyer and the carriers, and a support vessel (which looks really cool and I want to fly it), Can someone lay it out in terms a simple minded fed, used to three neat categories, can understand? Is the Neg'Vhar like the star cruiser? Is the seige destroyer like the defiant? the prometheus? advanced or fleet escort? etc, etc.
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Just play with them and you will see what they can do and will likely not go back to the Boring Blue side.
They have the best BOff layout but the weakest hull and shields ingame to balance this advantage. BoPS are also the only vessel currently with battle cloak.
Battle Cruisers are cruiser class vessels designed more for a tactical BOff set-ups, followed by Engineering and ending with a minor Science focus. They tend to have higher hull but lower shields than thier fed counterparts, plus a higher base turn rate.
Raptors are the KDF weaker cousin of the fed escort.
The Garumba is the better raptor.
Carriers and support Vessels cover the remaining ships in the KDF and each has something different they bring to the fleet.
Warships like the K'tinga and such are essentially harder hitting Cruisers with greater mobility that can equip DHC's.
BoP's are scouts and interference ships. They are NOT meant to sit and fight. They are meant to be used as part of a team to POP into existence and fire off very debilitating effects (likely Science) and take advantage of any weak enemies by Alpha Striking them from out of the blue. Once they land this they fade away again. A good BoP should not need Healing Skills much because they should never be around long enough to get people's attention. However they are not what you would call a good stand-alone ship.
Carriers... Well... They are Carriers and there is nothing else quite like them. They are sort of a fusion between a Cruiser and a Science Vessel with pets.
I love my Guramba...
The BoP...I'll be blunt:
To me it feels like Cryptik ran out of time and could not be bothered with a fully developed shiplist for the Klingons and made a decision that makes little sense to me:
Ships have physical characteristics the make them suited for certain tasks:
-cruisers have a lot of crew so they are good at damage control, they have big reactors and a larger hull so they can provide lots of power and can be properly armored.
-escorts have a hughe chnk of their small hull dedicated to weaponry allowing them an immense foirepower relative to their limited displacement
-science ships are designed to carry lots of sensors and laboratories and can use those systems in electronic warfare
BoPs can do all those things because they are the smallest ships and therfore can carry all the systems larger and dedicated ships require hughe amounts of space for to carry them.
So they left it to the players to make up the configs they feld were needed but at the expense of one ability.
The BoP is a miniature escort (it does have the bonus to weapons) with a limited hull and immense agility that can make you dizzy at times.
You can use whatever config you ever imagined you wanted to carry, but you can only do so at the expense of one ability relative to other ships of it tier.
It can reinforce its shiels like a cruiser and repair its hull just as well when the need arises, however you should avoid all situations where this is needed because in such situations the weak hull will require you to respond very quickly or the low hull will collapse around you.
Annoy the enemy, surprise them and then use that superior maneuverablity to get out of their weapon arcs or ouf of range if that is not possible.
You are a fire brigade and can zip around the battlefield and lend a hand where you're needed, either with firepower, stuns or hull repair usually reseved to science ships or cruisers.
But try to never stay in one place for too long or the hunter will become the hunted.
-The Fleet Support ships are very much like Federation Science ships even though I imagine they were built for an entirely different purpose, they are like a combination
AWACS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-3_Sentry
and Electroic Warfare units
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_EA-6B_Prowler
searching Gorn space for intruders and providing much needed EW support to the fleet in actual combat as a "force multiplier".
-Carriers, well I think there are other far more suited to writing more about them.
-I also have had no chance to test the new Flight Deck Cruisers to write lits about them.
*EDIT: Oh and there's the ship tier chart that is always a good way to get a general feeling and good overview about the different configs available
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=219044
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A well Handled KDF Battle Cruiser takes the heat in a battle group allowing the Raptors, Birds of Prey, Gorn, Nausican, and Orion ships to do thier job in relitive quiet. They are not nessesarily the Tanks of the KDF lineup though they can be. The T-5 refit Vor'cha is a bit of a Hybrid, while the T-5 Neg'var is definatly a Tank and fills the role of more traditional Cruisers.
The remaining KDF "Big Ship" the Carriers are the core of a Battle group, providing support to thier pets so thier pets con do the job they are ment for which is rapidly killing enemy ships. The Carriers role can change from battle to battle depending on the mix of pets they carry. Running the gamult from pruividng the primary offensive punch, to massive support and repair or other ships of the group.
Above all, KDF ships require a certain mental flexibility on the part of thier captains, who need to be always ready to reconfigure thier ships to suit the battle at hand.
The Skills tree revamp that will be hitting Tribble possibly this week may very well prove to be a massive boon to the KDF which by its more general nature will allow KDF players even greater flexibility to leverage the strengths of thier ship.
Welcome to the KDF. Our ships are the ships of warriors.
But... I will never ever trade my BoP for any other ship currently in game. I love it. Infinite configurations. You can fly it like an escort, or a sci vessel, or -yes- even a cloaked heal ship. We love the BoP.
A T5 with U-slot Ensign might be nice.
But who wouldn't love the BoP?
To be the instruments of Duty, Loyalty, Honor, and Sacrifice in the Service of the Klingon Empire!
If you are looking for "roles", you actually are approaching the issue from the wrong perspective.
Klingon vessels are extremely adaptable and frankly do not easily fit into any sort of pre-conceived role. Take the Negh'var cruiser, for example...it is often used as a "tank", but it is adroit enough to mount and use cannons like an escort. The carrier has no Federation analogue - it is entirely unique in the "role" that it plays, and it takes a different kind of mindset to play it effectively. In the Federation, the "backbone" of the UFP tend to be cruisers...but in the KDF I would say that the BoP and perhaps the Vor'Cha specifically are the foundation upon which the KDF is built. KDF Ships are nimble, fast-moving, hard striking. They typically can't take a lot of damage (exceptions would be the Carriers, the T5 Orion cruiser, and possibly the Negh'Var).
KDF Ships are unique in that your playstyle can define what "role" you want to be. This is especially true of the BoP. To be candid...a Sci officer in a BoP that knows what he or she is doing is a terror to behold. They can be absolutely devastating under the right circumstances.
But does the Garumba benefit from all those points you spent on the Raptor class ships?
Looking at the description, it reads like it should be a Cruiser, and even the BO slots are not particularly friendly towards a Tactical background.
Seems like Cryptic could spend some time fleshing out the KDF ships a little more to open up options for those who enjoy the Raptor class, but don't want to have to respec as a Cruiser or fly that ugly lion fish around. There really are no good options once you reach level cap for a captain on the Raptor/Escort career path, other than sticking with the Heavy Raptor.
Lay it out in terms of The Federation, okay.
Specifically. BoPs I've seen generally used best as ambush escort/science vessel hybrids. Slot a Commander Tactical officer, a Lieutenant Commander Science officer with PSW or TBR and go crazy. Treat the BoP like a MVAE that can battle cloak and take less of a beating and you'll do fine.
The Siege Destroyer is a fleet escort with a weird special ability.
There are no federation equivalents to the two carriers in game. They both have innate subsystem targeting like a science vessel, they both use fighters to supplement their DPS, and the Voqov's turn rate will make you long for the agility of the Galaxy-R.
The Gorn Support Vessel is a Deep Space Science Vessel with a useless special ability.
On the current skill tree the Guramba does benefit from all lower rank Raptor skills. This point will become moot pretty quick though as they are testing out a skill tree revamp that will eliminate all ship specific and energy specific skills.
True, the Qin needs love and there have been threads on the subject.
As far as I know the Garumba benefits from SP put into the Raptor skills for the time being.
Well, i fly a Kar-Fi, & it doesn't have any subsystem targeting.
The Kar-Fi is a cross between a sci ship & a raptor, & turns about like a cruiser. setup correctly, it's the ultimate DPS cruiser.
Boff setup is unlike anything else in the game
It has a Cmdr & Ens Sci slots
Ltc & Lt tac slots
& a Lt Eng slot.
It has strong shields, but hull like an escort.
2 types of pets, fighters that kamikaze your opponent and frigates.
The Frigate pets specialize in annoying your opponent, with Chron torps, Tricobalt mines & Aceton field.
IMHO, one of the funnest ships in the game.