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Aabh
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:31 am    Post subject: Fed Hospital Ship Reply with quote

I'm using a 2500 Old CL for a hospital ship and I have a question:

Does a Hospital ship have the torpedo launchers on either side of the... um... I guess it's not a "saucer"... the front part.

That seems a little "Anti-Hospital ship" but before I clip off the launchers then regret it, I thought I'd check Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Hospital Ship does not have photon torpedoes (or anything like that). However, I recommend NOT cutting off the "horns", as they would have been used for something else, not simply removed.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 6:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe they got converted to docking grapples / gangways to send rescue teams onto crippled ships.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Most of the "guts" for a given weapon is inside the hull, to make it easier to service and repair. Usually, only an emitter ball-turret, or collimator band, or (in the case of photons and plasmas) a firing-tube port are exposed to the outside.

The oCL is an odd duck, since it's photons were old, early, version that was much bigger. I'm sure those were swapped out for modern mounts when the ships were refitted (one of the many times), but those big "tusk/horn" housings remained. Like Mike said, the excess space in them was undoubtedly put to some other productive use (even if just more storage).
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Giant syringes for injecting "infected" space amoebas?
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Aabh
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 2:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you really want to get that close to an Amoeba? o.O

Thanks guys! I'll leave the torpe...erm...docking syringes on the ship! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 3:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And let's not forget ST:II...a corpse fits nicely in a torpedo casing.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 3:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And where did you get enough 2500's to have an extra CL to turn into a hospital ship? Nice problem to have!!
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No extras... I actually (Forgive me, I know it's popular) don't like the OCL too much, I intend to deploy NCL's in my fleets when those come out. So this is the lone OCL that comes in the Squadron box. At the moment, the "role" of the NCL's in my battle squadron are being played by a single CA until the NCL's become available.
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