MvM: Battlefleet Nomenclature

[warlock32]

I was thinking about ship Naming Conventions in MvM.

Trying to imitate the "feel" of BSG I was thinking of these Descriptors:

Colonial Fleet:

Command Carrier (Commandstar)= Heaviest Colonial Hybrid Gunship/Carrier)
Assault Carrier (Assaultstar) = Hybrid Dreadnought/Carrier
Battle Carrier (Battlestar)= Hybrid Battleship/Carrier
Strike Carrier (Strikestar)= Hybrid Battlecruiser/Carrier
Heavy Gunship (Heavy Gunstar) = Pure Battleship
Gunship (Gunstar)= Heavy Cruiser
Light Gunship (Light Gunstar)= Destroyer

Cyborg Fleet:

Assault Ship = Heavy Base Ship
Base Ship = "Line" Base Ship
Attack Ship= Light Base Ship
Support Ship (Light, Medium Heavy Missile only ship variants lacking fighters)

Thoughts?

-Mike

[coldsteel]

Check the thread CBF: Man vs Machine Suggested Miniatures. Harry added a list of the Ravenstar/Fox model equivalents. It is titled Development Notes Miniatures.

[warlock32]

Cool, thanks!

[warchariot]

Feb 7, 2011 12:15:14 GMT -5 warlock32 said:

I was thinking about ship Naming Conventions in MvM.

Trying to imitate the "feel" of BSG I was thinking of these Descriptors:

Colonial Fleet:

Command Carrier (Commandstar)= Heaviest Colonial Hybrid Gunship/Carrier)
Assault Carrier (Assaultstar) = Hybrid Dreadnought/Carrier
Battle Carrier (Battlestar)= Hybrid Battleship/Carrier
Strike Carrier (Strikestar)= Hybrid Battlecruiser/Carrier
Heavy Gunship (Heavy Gunstar) = Pure Battleship
Gunship (Gunstar)= Heavy Cruiser
Light Gunship (Light Gunstar)= Destroyer

Cyborg Fleet:

Assault Ship = Heavy Base Ship
Base Ship = "Line" Base Ship
Attack Ship= Light Base Ship
Support Ship (Light, Medium Heavy Missile only ship variants lacking fighters)

Thoughts?

-Mike

Were you thinking about breaking these down into more categories? The way they are labeled, is of course, by the role, but on my bases, I have used more BSG names like gunstar, assaultstar, missilestar ect. As you have suggested above.

Remember, that MvM is NOT BSG, but a game style similar to BSG.