Almost 2 months later any status update from those units?

We have them.  But we're going to introduce the first two with Episode 3 which isn't done yet.

Thanks for answering! Keep up the good work!

nice ideas!

As long as they use the nomenclature "Fast Battleship" rather than "battlecruiser" to keep my naval warfare nerd demon happy .

I'd be interested in a permanent radar jammer that merely made another player's radar "blob" look bigger - but artillery would still have their supernatural ability to get discrete target locks. I don't know how much use it'd be vs the AI, but I can see it being useful at drawing an enemy's army out of position, or covering while you moved yours. I have a real love of paper-tiger play.

If jamming was an ability, I'd prefer it to be Orbital rather than unit-based. I feel that unit active abilities are a bit of a slippery slope >:

On another note, I'd like something like SupCom's T3 spyplanes - expensive, but harder to shoot down than the T1 variant. Would be nice for the late game where recon scans are quite expensive.

well we already have th issue of units being called cruisers and frigates.. and a BC is "a large warship of a type built in the early 20th century, carrying similar armament to a battleship but faster and more lightly armored." so technically it wouldnt be THAT wrong.. #justsayingtheresbiggerissues

otherwise i like the idea of the jammer in that form as well as the spy plane.. although we are getting quite a big buff to T1 scouts soon..

Oh I know there are bigger issues .

And it depends what navy you ask; the term is also used for a warship armoured like a battleship but carrying cruiser armament and speed, intended to serve as a screening warship that could survive in the heat of battle.

I've missed that bit of news; what buff are they getting?

ItWasRhetorical

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Oh I know there are bigger issues .

And it depends what navy you ask; the term is also used for a warship armoured like a battleship but carrying cruiser armament and speed, intended to serve as a screening warship that could survive in the heat of battle.

I've missed that bit of news; what buff are they getting?

which navy is that? the rwandan navy perhaps? i know of no navy that refers to a ship with the same armour as a BB but less armament, as a battlecruiser.. or are u russian? where everything is different? the point of the BC is to be faster than a BB.. otherwise whats the point? make a meat shield? a BB does that already.. how do u get speed by removing weapons but keeping armour? that is a weird set of physics since we know the most weight comes from the armour

theres a thread on the proposed balance changes by ggthemachine (the guy in charge of balance)

https://forums.ashesofthesingularity.com/481775/page/1/#3668218

Fair point. Thinking it through, other units in this game don't have active toggled abilities. Orbital makes more sense.

Quesocito

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Quoting ItWasRhetorical,

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Oh I know there are bigger issues .

And it depends what navy you ask; the term is also used for a warship armoured like a battleship but carrying cruiser armament and speed, intended to serve as a screening warship that could survive in the heat of battle.

I've missed that bit of news; what buff are they getting?

which navy is that? the rwandan navy perhaps? i know of no navy that refers to a ship with the same armour as a BB but less armament, as a battlecruiser.. or are u russian? where everything is different? the point of the BC is to be faster than a BB.. otherwise whats the point? make a meat shield? a BB does that already.. how do u get speed by removing weapons but keeping armour? that is a weird set of physics since we know the most weight comes from the armour

theres a thread on the proposed balance changes by ggthemachine (the guy in charge of balance)

https://forums.ashesofthesingularity.com/481775/page/1/#3668218

The German Navy actually; whose BCs were far more successful that the RNs, because the RN kept adding their BCs to the line of battle, when they weren't designed to be there.

The purpose was to act as a screening ship during fleet actions - the real killer in WWI era naval battles were torpedoes, so admirals had to take care to keep the enemy destroyers at a distance. Having a screen which could stand next to the battleships in the heart of the battle, and also with smaller guns (which therefore had a higher rate of fire and traversal speed) was highly desirable.

From wikipedia, because I'm lazy: "By 1911 Germany had built battlecruisers of her own, and the superiority of the British ships could no longer be assured. Moreover, the German Navy did not share Fisher's view of the battlecruiser. In contrast to the British focus on increasing speed and firepower, Germany progressively improved the armour and staying power of their ships to better the British battlecruisers.^[51] Von der Tann, begun in 1908 and completed in 1910, carried eight 11.1-inch guns, but with 11.1-inch (283 mm) armour she was far better protected than the Invincibles"

That does make me ask.

Why are T4's called juggernauts and not battleships? Or carriers? Or any kind of ship type that would make sense with frigates/cruisers/dreadnoughts?