With the release of the Friends Like These adventure I was very happily surprised to see the stats for two ships I was waiting to see in print... the Gladiator class Star Destroyer and the Raider I (or is it II) class Corvette.
Anyone have any suggestions for how many and what types of non-tie fighter ships would be aboard the Gladiator?
Thanks for any help
Fist
Based on the standard configuration of Imperial fighter wings, it may be carrying 4 Interceptors and 4 Bombers as part of its 24 starfighters. As for the rest ("shuttles, landing craft, and utility vehicles"), that would be a mix of Lambda, Sentinels and stuff like speeder bikes and tanks.
Thanks for the quick reply Blackbird.
Any thoughts on numbers of Lambda and Sentinel shuttles? how about "utility vehicles", any clue what types that would be?
I know i'm asking for specifics, just curious if that data is out there already, or if people have their best guesses based off known quantities like a Victory Star Destroyer.
Thanks again
With the design goal of the gladiator to operate mostly independently and deliver as well troops to the ground to suppress smaller planets and pirates, I would assume that it uses mostly sentinels, a dozen tanks / walkers and a dozen sentinels + a few lambdas for VIPs sounds not out of line. Though Laat/i would be another option instead of going all sentinel with the troop transports. The gladiator is supposed to have 1600 ground troops on board and a sentinel can get 75 per transport down to the ground. The sentinels can be equipped to use under belly cargo containers to deploy hover tanks.
But it really is hard to say, the hangar is the main component of the ship, so there is a decent amount of space for fighters, transports and ground vehicles. The 1km long venators carry already over 200 fighters, 40 latti, 24 walker and numerous shuttles.
The Acclamator-class brings according to the wiki 16,000 clone troopers to battle, ten times as much as the gladiator and used for that 80 Laat, so maybe half a dozen sentinels, tanks and walkers might suit it better, but in the end those are minor details and can be adapted to suite your adventure anyway.