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New Arab League Warship Class - TWO Darkstar Games today!

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We’ll be playing not one but two Darkstar wargames today, with players on four continents.  Meanwhile, we’re also ramping up the Arab League for play this evening, so a new light carrier class has been designed into their fleet.

The Khalifa class light carrier is a newer design for the star caliphates Arab League, in fact the first dedicated carrier class ever developed for this navy.  Until the lead ship of this class was commissioned in 2508, the Arab League had always relied on their The Khalifa class light carrier is a newer design for the star caliphates Arab League, in fact the first dedicated carrier class ever developed for this navy. Until the lead ship of this class was commissioned in 2508, the Arab League had always relied on their "hybrid" cruiser fleet, such as Almanzor class light cruisers and Damascus class heavy cruisers, even the Sayf al Qadr (Sword of the Most Powerful) class battleships. These ships traditionally carried a lighter main armament suite in exchange for a partial aerospace fighter and strike complement, allowing each ship to act as a multi-mission platform or a task force as a dedicated carrier strike force. Through the 2480s, 90s, and early 2500s, this unusual doctrine brought Arab task forces startling successes on more than one occasion, so the decision was undertaken to "double down" on the aerospace arm and build a dedicated carrier. The move was not unopposed among some of the League's military leaders, who cited that the hybrid cruisers had been winning with aerospace because the enemy cruiser squadrons they faced simply had no aerospace support, and relatively weak gunnery of Arab cruisers meant that aerospace had to win these encounters by default. Nevertheless, the capabilities of the "Mylekinir" (Fire Angel) fighter and "Demkikham" (Vengeance) bomber are the match of any in Known Space, especially after fleet-wide modernization and refit programs undertaken through the 2510s. The Khalifa class carries plenty of them, surprassing most light carriers and matched only by the American Buford class and Japanese Shimada class. The Khalifa also packs plenty of warhead delivery support, namely the advanced "Ahrasyfa" (Storm) gravitic torpedo in two quadruple racks on the expanded bow, one ventral and one dorsal. Note the unusual layout of these torpedoes, most ships of this type mount them in an "assault configuration" balanced along the port and starboard bows. This, combined with the powerful forward shields, belies the offensive-minded doctrine envisioned for these ships. Like most Arab League ships, the Khalifa's superluminal speeds also outmatch most rivals, all ships capable of at least 11th-magnitude Darkstar waves.

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rasmus
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As a participant in 1 game and observer in the other – I am impressed with how the game scale between the full on Taskforce Agamemnon of @damon taking on a big Russian-American taskforce to the cruisers with escorts in the 2nd battle

muakhah
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Thanks for running two long games in one day. I had a lot of fun. I think that part of what had make the corvettes effective in Elessar’s fleet was the simple but ugly bruiser of a short range light cruiser. The long range guns and close up torps complemented each other perfectly.

How do non-torpedo corvettes fare so far? They have to get closer and lose some of that protection from range and shields that the U-boat types enjoy.

Always happy to see more new ships too!

muakhah
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I just saw I put long range guns and close up torps instead of the other way round…

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