Fed counter to a Raptor?

5 weps front
1 aft

38 hull
15 turn
.99 shield

4 tac
4 eng
1 sci

cmdr tac
lt. cmdr tac
lt eng
lt sci
lt uni

Can't wait to blow up a few of these new ships ( in ker'rat) on the first day they come out.

Ah yes. Beware feddies, you will be hunted a little extra that day

Just a little rain for your parades.

And when it turns out that the Kumari line of ships actually has 5 Forward Weapons, at least 2 Aft Weapons, and a total of 10 Consoles... Then your threats will be well warranted. Because then the Kumari will be the single most powerful ship in the game.

If however, it turns out to have anything less than what I have specified (less than 5 Forward Weapons, or less than 2 Aft Weapons, or less than 10 Consoles, or some combination of these less than's) then your threats are unjustified in any regard because then, it will just be another ship of the line and not a threat.

What I expect to see is a ship that is about equal to the Jem'Hadar Attack Ship without being so exorbitantly over priced as to make it near impossible for the vast majority of the gaming community to be able to access it. This way people other than just those who are willing to shell out the equivalent to 400,000,000 to 500,000,000 energy credits can actually have an opportunity to participate in serious competitive level PvP and other things.

Are you telling me I can't participate until I fly a bug ship?

I am saddened

Heh... and the irony of this thing being a flying gun means that they will try to distract us from the obvious short-falls of the other two ship classes by baiting us with this new escort. And they have stressed it's wing-mounted cannons to the point where they will try to distract us from the fact that beams are not nearly as good as they should be.

I see this ship as two things.

1) A distraction away from the problems with cruisers and science ships.

2) A beautifully designed (at least as it's in-game sprite goes) escort/heavy escort/destroyer based off of a nice (albeit ancient) ship design.

I will reserve further judgment until it's stats come out. Hopefully it's not as much of a disappointment as the JHEC and JDC were.

When do you think they'll release the layout/specs info for this ship?

Per Bran, Today. Most likely at Noon, PST.

well hey, I gotta make myself feel better some how with all these new fed ships coming out lol.

and I am quite sure there will be more than a few inexperienced pilots out there on day 1 with the new toy they don't know how to use.

And sorry I did not bother to read the whole tread, but 5 forward weapons? lol Id like to see the power drain on that

Expecting 4/3, same boffs as mobius or some variation with the eng/sci/tac differences, 17 turn rate, 0.9 shield mod with 32k hull.

Sweet! Can't wait to see what they do with this ship.