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junior Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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Scoutdad wrote: | I can't help it if the Klinks have to be different and I was trying hard not to confuse him... |
The Roms are different too. As are the Hydrans.
Though in the cases of both of those races, it's due to the fact that there are multiple hulls for each ship classification instead of the usual one.
i.e. the Hydrans have three Command Cruisers (Lord Marshall, Lord Bishop, Lord Commander), and the Romulans have four (King Eagle, KRC, Novahawk, Superhawk). |
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gwiggington Lieutenant JG
Joined: 15 Dec 2008 Posts: 28 Location: INDIANAPOLIS
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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Scoutdad wrote: | Garth - don't make me borrow Webmom's #8 Griswold and come up there and WHANG! you with it.
I can't help it if the Klinks have to be different and I was trying hard not to confuse him... |
its to late for me on being confuse but i think i am geting this now . i have not even started doing the Klingon . but win i do i will come her first and thanks to all of you for the help |
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junior Captain
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:13 am Post subject: |
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Klingons are actually pretty easy. The letter on the hull class gives you a general idea of the size of the ship, and the bigger the number on the hull class the larger the ship is. So a D7 is bigger than a D5. And a D6 is bigger than an F6 because a 'D' indicates a bigger hull than an 'F'. In almost all cases, an earlier letter in the alphabet indicates a larger hull, with the exception being that 'E' hulls are smaller than 'F' hulls.
There are two exceptions to all of the above. The first is the E3 and G2 (I think... I might be confusing the police ship hull class with the gunboat hull class) which both use the same basic hull with a different weapons loadout. But neither ship is in FedCom yet.
The second exception is the C8 and the C9. Both ships use essentially the same hull, with a few weapons systems removed from the C9.
Figuring out Hydrans and Romulans depends, more or less, on knowing the names of all of the ships that both fleets use. There are a few hints in some of the class names, but it mostly requires straight up name memorization. |
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Sgt_G Commander
Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 529 Location: Offutt AFB, Nebraska
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:53 am Post subject: |
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Scoutdad wrote: | I can't help it if the Klinks have to be different and I was trying hard not to confuse him... |
Hey, if I wanted to confuse him, I'd've pointed out that the Gorn DD is actually a frigate. _________________ Garth L. Getgen
Master Sgt, US Air Force, Retired -- 1981-2007 -- 1W091A |
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djdood Commodore
Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 3413 Location: Seattle, WA
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:56 am Post subject: |
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Well... it could also be said that the Klingon F-5 is the galaxy's smallest destroyer rather than the frigate it is named. Nothing is ever "hard and fast". _________________
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Ravenhull Lieutenant Commander
Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 231 Location: Mobile, AL
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:31 am Post subject: |
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Sgt_G wrote: | Scoutdad wrote: | I can't help it if the Klinks have to be different and I was trying hard not to confuse him... |
Hey, if I wanted to confuse him, I'd've pointed out that the Gorn DD is actually a frigate. |
Or that the 'Heavy Destroyer' (HDD) is a light cruiser... _________________ NOLI UMQUAM VIM TURBARUM STULTORUM DEPRETIARE.
Donovan Willett, USS Alabama |
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djdood Commodore
Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 3413 Location: Seattle, WA
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:52 am Post subject: |
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Oh, don't get started on the Gorns and their "hide it from the Senate" names. _________________
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Scoutdad Commodore
Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 4754 Location: Middle Tennessee
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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djdood wrote: | Oh, don't get started on the Gorns and their "hide it from the Senate" names. |
Bubble, Bubble... it's no trouble...
_________________ Commander, Battlegroup Murfreesboro
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junior Captain
Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 803
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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Ravenhull wrote: | Or that the 'Heavy Destroyer' (HDD) is a light cruiser... |
War Cruiser, actually.
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