Victory Star destroyer

[Darth Vader]

I wonder about the usefulness about Victory Star destroyer: how much it will be upgradable? and its usefulness on ground battle (I mean battle on planets)?

[Psycho Mantis]

My guess is it will be the workhorse for your early fleets. You probably wont start with the ISD.

 

I dont know, however, if it will be able to affect ground battles. Having it send down orbital bombardments would be very cool, though!

 

I do know that TIE bombers can go bombing runs on ground forces.

[Darth Vader]

No I mean attacking with its turbolasers enemy bases

[chewieusma]

Attacking enemy bases with turbolasers is a great orbital bombardment advantage for any ship with such a capability, but the VSD has the unique tactic, from Star Wars books I've read, to be able to actually come into the atmosphere and bombard from there. I don't know why I haven't heard of other ships doing the same thing though.

 

Who has some more info on this, and could it be one of those unique time limited ship skills like the ISDs deploying free TIE Fighters?

[Grey_Raven37]

From the Wikipedia: "One notable feature of the Victory-class is that it is one of the largest ships capable of operating effectively in the atmosphere of a planet. This gives it an advantage over its larger cousins in planetary assault scenarios, where it can be used to provide close-support for ground forces, and to intimidate the enemy. This advantage did not prevent it from being phased out and replaced by new classes as the main warship of the Empire, but it did ensure that the Victory was often assigned to invasion or policing fleets to make use of this ability."

 

It's a shame we can't use the ship this way in the game.

[chewieusma]

Thanks for the Wiki Grey_Raven. I think I'll check that out a bit more often now.

[Darth Vader]

ok that's good, for ground assaults I think I'm gonna use the Victory a lot

[ralphman]

ok that's good, for ground assaults I think I'm gonna use the Victory a lot

but we dont know if we will be able to do that in the game

[Darth Vader]

well, it says that the Victory is the only one that can enter atmosphere, so why we shoulnd't?

[Grand Admiral Thrawn 889]

because they maynot have put that in because it can only be utilised as a Orbital Bombardment method. if the ORbital Bombardment is none existent then there is no need for this Activity it would be a waste of Code.

[chewieusma]

Many of you have played SW Rebellion and have a good idea of their Obital Bombardment techniques:

 

There was an option to target Military, Civilian, or just engage in a General Bombardment. Each ship offered a bombardment bonus from 0 to 5. The VSD was pretty high. So that may be how they make the VSD special.

[Deadeye31_pff]

I think the VSD will likely be what it really was in rebellion: a cheaper, albeit little bit weaker, alternative to the ISD.

 

In Rebellion it was faster to just build an escort carrier to have the fighters of the ISD and build a VSD to have the guns.

[Junker]

You are not able to attack targets on the surface with a VSD in EaW. For this part you have the Orbital Bombardment with X-Wings or even TIE-Fighters.

[Teradyn_pff]

You are not able to attack targets on the surface with a VSD in EaW. For this part you have the Orbital Bombardment with X-Wings or even TIE-Fighters.

 

I don't think we have seen confirmation of Orbital Bombardment of any type. The attacks on the surface will primarily be conducted by Y-Wings and Tie Bombers from what we have seen. There have been screenshots of X-Wings engaged on the surface, but how or to what extent, we don't know yet.

[Grand Admiral Thrawn 889]

Teradyn is right they havent confirmed it offically but its looking more and more likely. it says in the Gamespot written preview about halfway down (or at least some where) something about orbital bombardments.

[Darth Vader]

hmm so I cannot hope to use the VSD's turbolasers to siege the rebel base?

[Teradyn_pff]

Even if they did put in orbital bombardment in at the last minute, there is .00001% chance that they would model the Victory Destroyer entering the atmosphere to bombard.

[Darth Vader]

oh no!!! how is that possible?

[Stellar_Magic]

Mods are your best hope. Also looking at the model for the VSD, am I the only one that thinks its the Victory II Model?

[Foshjedi2004]

I think it is too Stellar. Thats why they cannot land or do low orbit Bombardment.

[Cygnus X-1]

You know VSDs also have hyperspace ratings of 1, instead of 2 like most other capital ships, so they can keep up with fighters while jumping.

 

The winglike protrusions on it are atmospheric stability fins, however we may not see it ingame in the atmosphere due to technical aspect of doing htat and depends on how flexible the game engine logic is

[Stellar_Magic]

Well if they can have TIE bombers do a bombing run, why not a VSD?

[Xenomorphine]

Even if they did put in orbital bombardment in at the last minute, there is .00001% chance that they would model the Victory Destroyer entering the atmosphere to bombard.

 

They wouldn't have to!

 

It would be far too high in the atmosphere to see. All which would be required is for a sort of 'artillery' graphic of where the turbolasers actually hit. The user wouldn't have to physically see the craft in any way.

[Teradyn_pff]

Well, in that case, what would be special about the VSD rather than say an ISD? Accuracy, rate of fire, etc?

[Grand Admiral Thrawn 889]

So what is the VSD's special move if orbital bombardment hasnt been added?