Star Trek VS Star Blazers

[Zor]

I'd be looking at the neo version since it's the version I'm more familiar with.

That one seemed fairly cumbersome and slow to turn so the Yamato should be able to bring the wave motion cannon to bear. Plus we have never seen it engage a warship at distances beyond a few dozen kilometers.

Zor

[Parallax]

You'll have to forgive my ignorance in regards to the series (a tad before my time) but how much better is the Galactica from the original series?

[Crazedwraith]

That one seemed fairly cumbersome and slow to turn so the Yamato should be able to bring the wave motion cannon to bear. Plus we have never seen it engage a warship at distances beyond a few dozen kilometers.

It should be noted that's because its use of the FTL drive means; it doesn't have to.

Gallactica's crew got used to spininng up their drives very quickly. If they're getting blasted at beyond their engagement range; they're not going to stick around and take it.

[Uraniun235]

That one seemed fairly cumbersome and slow to turn so the Yamato should be able to bring the wave motion cannon to bear. Plus we have never seen it engage a warship at distances beyond a few dozen kilometers.

It should be noted that's because its use of the FTL drive means; it doesn't have to.

Gallactica's crew got used to spininng up their drives very quickly. If they're getting blasted at beyond their engagement range; they're not going to stick around and take it.

I don't get it, why would Galactica choose to engage at very close distances? Longer distance would give them more time to get a lock on incoming missiles and shoot them down. Seems like every close engagement with a Basestar usually resulted in missiles hitting the ship.

[takemeout_totheblack]

If this argument has moved to nBSG vs Star Blazers, shouldn't we try and figure out what BSG's capabilities are? Firepower, defensive screen effectiveness, armor, tactics?

[DrStrangelove]

That one seemed fairly cumbersome and slow to turn so the Yamato should be able to bring the wave motion cannon to bear. Plus we have never seen it engage a warship at distances beyond a few dozen kilometers.

It should be noted that's because its use of the FTL drive means; it doesn't have to.

Gallactica's crew got used to spininng up their drives very quickly. If they're getting blasted at beyond their engagement range; they're not going to stick around and take it.

I don't get it, why would Galactica choose to engage at very close distances? Longer distance would give them more time to get a lock on incoming missiles and shoot them down. Seems like every close engagement with a Basestar usually resulted in missiles hitting the ship.

Have you seen how slow their projectiles move

[Crazedwraith]

I don't get it, why would Galactica choose to engage at very close distances? Longer distance would give them more time to get a lock on incoming missiles and shoot them down. Seems like every close engagement with a Basestar usually resulted in missiles hitting the ship.

Close range volleys from a Battestar's main gun pretty much killed basestar's straight off. Whereas the missiles just shook up battlestar's bridge dramatically. Plus their missile defence didn't really need to lock on to missiles did it? It just created and all direction flak cloud so the missile got blasted as they try to come through.

Yeah; it was probably silly but the way combat was presented in BSG, Battlestars seemed to like to operate on short ranges where its heavy cannon and armour made a difference. If they wanted to work at long range they stayed put and sent the Vipers in.