So question time. I was tossing around the idea of doing a FanFic, slightly post Clone Wars of a brand new Victory-SD grouped with a bunch of older ships to clean up posts along the outter rim.
The force would be, 1 Victory, 2 Dreadnaughts and 6 Carracks. I've always thought this grouping was rather nice and even used a Homeworld2 Mod to make a Screenshot of what the Ship formation would look like
But what I'm curious about is what the 'offical' name for the ships would be? Would any old group just be lumpped as a "Taskforce" Are there actuall names for different groupings of SW Warships?
Just curious
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There was the Victory Fleet of first-gen Victory-class destroyers. They went up against the Separatist's Bulwark Fleet consisting of Bulwark-class Mk. I battlecruisers.
There was also a Storm Fleet, Separatist warships disguised as freighters.
Going by The Imperial Sourcebook, that force is too small to be considered a real fleet. It would be regarded as a heavy attack line (about 8 ships, no smaller than a light cruiser) escorting a VSD.
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I'd call it a flotilla, or maybe a squadron, as in Death Squadron, though that used larger ships.
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Certainly nothing more than a flotilla, and a reasonably small one at that. It seems in the vein of the Imperial task force seen in one of the earlier missions in XWA, composed of something like one ISD, a Dread, a few corvettes, a few frigates and an escort carrier. I'm all for variation, so siz Carracks seems a tad bland to me, plus there's not support ships there, so if its for extended ops away from base that could be a problem.
Lazarus wrote:so if its for extended ops away from base that could be a problem.
To be fair, they're never likely to be more than ten minutes from resupply.
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I don't think such a small group of ships warrants a special name or anything. Just call it [VSD name]'s "task force" or "battle group" or something.
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For a force that small, I think "Patrol" or something of that nature might be appropriate, although the name might be misleading, depending upon their deployment.
It seems like it'd fit best as a detatchment of a larger fleet, i.e. a patrol line of a fleet dispatched to some area or what not. It's too small to be a fleet in and of itself, same with an armada. It could also be a detatched strike force, forward-deployed to scout out ahead of the main fleet.
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I'd go with squadron or patrol. However, if you want something with more 'umph' for a story, go with something along the lines of 'Victory Battle Group' or even an 'Assult Group'.
Play with .....BG or .....AG. Cruiser or destroyer BG/AG or like I said, Victory.
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