>>What I'd like to see, though, are... Well, in the source material
>>they're called the Yamato class. In SFB/SFC, they're the Federation's
>>standard battleship class.
>>
>>Screenshots (From ST: Klingon Academy, which used the -exact- -same-
>>technical designs- the SFC models are kinda low res) below.
>
>Ah, yes. I've been playing Klingon Academy lately, and have
>tried out the Yamato class (and its companion FBB, the
>Missouri class) in the simulator mode.

Yahoo! I gave up on that game eventually, as it happens... Sheer frustration, really. I wanted to kill things! None of the weapons there were really very satisfying... More's the pity. It was fun except for that.

>Mooooooooooo.

*laff* Yeah. Still, there's a corrolary to that, though the way KA is put together makes it kinda hard to see: Push the button --> Target go *boom*

For enough firepower to make anything short of a CA vanish in a single pass, I'll forgive a great deal.

>I'm quite fond of KA's Klingon and Romulan ships, though;
>they're nifty extrapolations of what Klingon and Rom warships heavier
>than the D-7 might have looked like back in the good old days, when
>starships weren't lame-looking. (They certainly beat that horrific
>green monstrosity the Romulans always get stuck with in TNG...
>)

Yech. Which was a real pity, because, IMHO, the Rom BOP was the coolest piece of design in the entire show... Followed closely by the D6/7.

>For that matter, although they handle lousily, the Fed battleships fit
>nicely into the visual spectrum of Starfleet in that era, too, and
>some of the smaller extrapolated Fed ships (like the
>Okinawa-class frigate) I'm quite fond of. (I especially like
>the fact that they included a TOS version of the Akula-class
>destroyer. It was a nice touch that they must have included just
>because they thought it would be fun. :)

Hmmmm...

Actually. It's been a while since I last played, but I don't remember any of the other superheavies being any better. The BBs are -supposed- to handle like bathtubs, no matter what race they're owned by.

So. Are we going to be seeing Assault Phasers, or is that niche already covered?

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter
(Okay, the Galaxy look kinda stupid. But the Ambassadors are even worse! The Galaxy at least has the streamlining going for it.)