Still doesn't work

maybe someone else can play with it too? hint hint..

/me paints the 'Guest Ships' RED

Feel free to kill'em off now.

A Task Force is, essentially, a squadron of Capital Ships. Why wouldn't we need designations within the roster? Of course, we will be spoken of in character as the name of our ship, but for roster purposes, we need a designation type.

aight, i will fix them in a few

Thanks

I think he mean't designation as in the equivelent of 'Gamma 4' or Viper 6, but no you're right, vessels can also be identified by their role.

We have divided up the wiki between the Command ship, Line & Pickets ships, as well as identified ships if their a carrier, or an anti-starfighter ship.

Whilst it wouldn't be a problem for the Strike, the Vic or the Broadside, as there's only one of each, there are two carracks and two lancers, so we would need some kind of basic designation to destinguish between the two.

As I said, we have the TF-X# designations anyway.

the could be Lancer wing 1 and Lancer Wing 2 etc. I know it is a different series, but in star trek deep space nine, in the episode sacrifice of angels, at one point Captain Benjamin Sisko gives the order "Have Galaxy wings 91 and 95 engage those destroyers, the each of those numbers refers to a single ship, but in the thick of battle it is easier than trying to remember all of the different names of the ships, because you can give the order for a particular section of the force to engage, and regardless of whether you have the Tiamut, Horn of Valor, or Rising Sun in the carrier wing 2 slot, when you order Carrier wing 2 to move forward and engage an enemy unit, you don't have to worry about which ship it is, the correct ship will engage them. It also helps when you have to close ranks during a battle because you can order the fourth destroyer squadron forward, and even if two of the units have folded together as the 4th, they will all move to engage. Anyway, that's how I would organize it.

Lol, I was writing this while stormz was writing no disrespect meant by continuing the conversation.

I think what he's trying to say is the difference is, for lack of a better word, the selection (like in a strategy game) of a single ship, and multiple ships. With a whole fleet of a huge number of ships, it would obviously be better to group like ships together and just call them out with 1 designation. It wouldn't be practical to give out orders to one ship at a time. However, in our case, we're looking at no more than 10 ships... I don't think that's too hard to manage, is it?

Guest Ship?

Quote:Just noticed the task force designations skip from TF-X2 to TF-X4...there a reason for that?

TF-X3 is the Broadside-class Cruiser/Missile Corvette, our support ship. It should be on the wiki, althoug now that I mention it I don't remember seeing it on the roster you made. Maybe you didn't see it?

If it's a permanent part of our roster, I will add it...but seeing as it's a support ship, i think it should be changed to TF-X8

The numberings were done based on the sizes of the ships. The broadside being larger than the Carracks and smaller/less-powerful than the Strike. But if people feel the need to have everything go in order, then sure we can move the numbering.

Well not if you're going to commit suicide :P no.

I reckon this should be a some sort of 'trial by fire' story, so that Task Force Xesh isn't officially made until afterwards.

I'm thinking... Den could be on a 'tour' of the defences along the Eastern Territories, in the Pandora. Sort of a moral boosting/sight seeing trip for him and his staff at TacCom or whatever.

They're ambushed, or go missing, or something, and then the rest of us who are in the area, but at different locations, come and respond.

We kick but, Den realises we work well together, and so forms an official task force in order to help defend the Eastern Block, and then we go from there.

This story would essentially have two elements. There's the main story of us trying to rescue Den, and then we each have our own personal sidestory about how we first get to where we are.

So for example, my chracter isn't the Captain to begin with, but when the command staff are wiped out, I end up being the senior ranking officer. So there's that.

For Will, it could be his first day aboard his ship. Shaz, Liquid, STormz etc... we all have our 'Origin' Storys (To borrow a phrase from Dragon Age: Origins).

Both are good ideas in my opinion.

It would be easy to assume Shazam and Liquid or myself were the other ship on patrol with Shazam, since we have the smaller ships.

You readeded my mind