Essential Clone Wars units?

By DiabloAzul, in Star Wars: Armada

I'm in the process of creating custom cards for Clone Wars units, including Republic and Separatist-themed card designs. For the moment, I have only worked on Republic ships and squadrons, and have made cards for:

-Venator-class Star Destroyer

-Victory-class Star Destroyer

-Dreadnaught-class Heavy Cruiser (and Katana Fleet variant)

-Arquitens-class Light Cruiser (and Communications variant)

-Carrack Light Cruiser

-DP20 Frigate

-ARC-170

-V-19 Torrent (including Axe ace)

-V-Wing
-Y-Wing (BTL-B variant)

-Z-95 Headhunter (Clone variant)

Next, I plan to make the following:

-Acclamator-class Assault Ship (I and II)

-Jedi Starfighters (various aces)

-Oddball (ARC-170 ace)

...what else is the Republic Fleet missing? Maybe the armed Consular-class derivatives? For now I'd rather not go into Large ships (Praetors, Procurators and Mandators - which aren't very iconic anyway). What titles and commanders do you suggest?

The primary Consular class derivative I'm aware of is TCW's Charger C70, although a couple other models existed. It filled the role of the CR90, small, fast and armed well enough to harass larger ships. For the Acclamators, I'm curious what solution can be found to how they were not intended for sustained space combat, especially the Acclamator-1, but were used that way anyway.

To titles, you're going to have a lot more luck with named Venators and a handful of Acclamators. Ex. Resolute, Anakin's flagship, Negotiator, Kenobi's flagship, and Gualara(?), the cruiser that crippled Invisible Hand in the Battle of Coruscant. There's also the Leveler, an Acclamator of indiscriminate model commanded by Gilad Pellaeon during the war.

For commanders, Wulff Yularen is an obvious candidate. He's characterized as conservative unless you give him a hole, at which point he's more than happy to punish you for it. For other officers, you're mostly looking at clone officers and Jedi officers, presumably restricted like Vader will be (he can't be commander AND fighter pilot).

Edited by GiledPallaeon

Great work! I can only think of the light frigate Consular-class (charger C70 retrofit) and Republic light assault cruiser that will fulfill the CR90 roll. They look like the one in the opening scene of The Phantom Menace.

Wouldn't the Venator be a large base unit? Its about the same size as the MC80 after all.

I'm interested in seeing what you do with the Separatist fleet since almost all of their canon warships would be large base. The Munificent would be medium and I suppose the Providence might be a very big medium but the rest of the CIS Warships we seen in the PT and TCW are larges.

I figure I will move the Venator to a large base when it is time, however currently medium bases are all most of us have.

Wouldn't the Venator be a large base unit? Its about the same size as the MC80 after all.

I'm interested in seeing what you do with the Separatist fleet since almost all of their canon warships would be large base. The Munificent would be medium and I suppose the Providence might be a very big medium but the rest of the CIS Warships we seen in the PT and TCW are larges.

The Venator class is listed at 1137 meters in length, to a Munificent's 825m, a Victory's 900m, a Providence's 1088m, and the Recusant at 1187m. For comparison, an MC80 Liberty class, NOT THE VERSION COMING OUT IN WAVE 2, averaged 1200-1400 meters, keeping in mind that each ship was unique. Home One-class ships, the version that IS coming out in Wave 2, usually fit into that range as well, although much of the fluff lists Home One herself as in excess of 2K or even 3K meters (ex. Empire at War, the game that gave us the AF2, scales her to 3200 meters stem to stern). For now I see no problem leaving them as medium, since all of the above warships fit right in that nifty size slot where FFG has not released a ship to be able to tell. Frankly I wouldn't leap at deploying any of the ships that could be large, Providence, Recusant and Venator, as larges until playtesting them. Large ships much more easily attract fire and hazards, which significantly affects tactical use.

Before someone jumps on me, yes versions of the Providence and the Recusant exist in TCW that are in excess of 2K meters length. These ships are also shown to not be the norm and rather rare enlarged command ships. Invisible Hand, Grievous' flagship at the Battle of Coruscant, was a normal-sized Providence class ship. Further, if we are willing to use the EU (something the Victory and the AF2 clearly show FFG is), the Separatists have a dearth of further medium and small-size ships, including the Wavecrest-class frigate(small), the Geonosian cruiser, also called the Geonosian dreadnought (medium), and the Sabaoth destroyers, likely a medium-sized ship, although references to its size are few and far between. There are also the Lucrehulk-class battleships, better known as the Trade Federation battleships, since the design was originally a Trade Federation bulk cargo ship, but those are 3K+ meters in diameter, and waiting to change to large ships once we have examples really does seem to be the wisest course of action.

I've always hoped that the Wavecrest would appear somewhere. I've always been a fan of frigates, due to a combo of family history, early wargame and Tabletop RPG experience, and frigates being the main ship in my favorite Age of Sail novel when I was young, and the main ships of many more I enjoyed in later years. Maybe the Centax class Heavy Frigates could show up as CIS as well. I know that in their one appearance in the EU/Legends they were Republic ships but the hulls, engines, and an unknown number of other systems were built and assembled at a planet that eventually joined the CIS withe the weapons and finishing touches added at Coruscant so IMO the CIS should have either the complete blueprints or enough of the blueprints to easily fill in the rest.