Ambassador Class for CODA?

[Capt. K. Vaughn]

I was pretty sure they also mentioned new Warbirds or perhaps it was in one of the episodes with Sela. I'd have to go look again but I was pretty sure that they made a reference somewhere that indicated the D'deridex or Type B Warbird.

*shrug* Don't have time to go looking atm though. I have also been wrong before and certainly will again.

Regards,
CKV.

[Lancer]

Originally posted by IceGiant
One question I have is fow did you get 18 size of shuttles for 6 points? I know for my Galaxy class i gave it 62 size worth of shuttles. But I also wasn't worrying about costs.

AFAIR you get a shuttlebay with (Ship size = shuttle sizes) for 2 spaces. Starships limits the number of shuttlebays to Ship's Size/2 (round down) so the Ambassador can have 3 for 21 sizes of shuttles using 6 spaces.
I arbitrarily set the number at 18 instead of 21 because I felt like doing it.

Originally posted by Snake_Plissken
anyways going back to the Ambassador: as it stands this version isn't as powerful as the Excelsior presented in Starship- so maybe Lancer you should do a 'rescaled' version of the Excelsior. That would be nice!

I probably will do a 'rescaled' Excelsior sooner or later, as I am not happy at all with some of the penetration values found in Starships. Just don't hold your breath, it may take a while.

[Rayaru]

Originally posted by Phantom
It was mentioned that the Enterprise faced off against several "Warbirds" at the Battle of Nerendra, nothing more specific then that. I think they may have just used the term "Warbird" to differ from the BoP, which in TNG was pretty much a Klingon term. But, who knows.

The "Warbirds" that attacked the Klingon outpost at Narendra III were from the Romulan fleet, of the Klingon design (from way back when the Klingons sold ships to the Romulans... sort of came back to bite them in the ass, didn't it?) According to the Vulcan Heart book series, the D'deridex was in design phase at that point.

[IceGiant]

Ah, ok Lancer that's what threw me.

[Snake_Plissken]

AFAIR you get a shuttlebay with (Ship size = shuttle sizes) for 2 spaces. Starships limits the number of shuttlebays to Ship's Size/2 (round down) so the Ambassador can have 3 for 21 sizes of shuttles using 6 spaces.

Actually not quite. For each shuttlebay installed you get an allotment of shuttlecraft equal to the ship's size. So for example a size 8 ship with 2 shuttlebays has 16 size worth of shuttles, meaning it can accomodate either 16 size-1 shuttles or 8 size-2 shuttles, or a combination of both up to 16 pts worth of 'size'. Don did mention however that the concept is abstract, so that a ship like the Akira which can accomodate 21 size worth of craft according to Starship can house the pseudo-cannon number of between 30-50 fighters.

[tmutant]

Originally posted by Snake_Plissken
CKV, I don't recall any mention of the D'Deridex in 'Yesterday's Enterprise'; maybe they just used the term 'warbird' for another Romulan ship. I could be wrong though. BTW personally I prefer LUG's comissioning date for the D'deridex which was 2349.

IIRC the quote from Tasha Yar was "You're more manuverable than Warbirds of that era", meaning Warbird is almost a generic term for Romulan ships.