"Space Crusier Yamato query" Topic
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| green beanie | 13 Jan 2017 8:37 a.m. PST |
How many fighter ships do the Yamato carry? |
| cloudcaptain | 13 Jan 2017 8:57 a.m. PST |
From the Wiki: link The Yamato generally appears to have two standard sized fighter squadrons á 12 fighters. In addition, at the beginning, there are two prototype Cosmo Zeros. The fighters from the squadron tasked with interception and fighter duty appear to have yellow or orange squadron "tail" colors. The fighters from the squadron tasked with ground/ship attack missions appear to have green squadron "tail" colors. The original animation isn't so clear about the differences or details as the official modelkits or later CG supported animation. At the beginning, the main force consisted of standard Cosmo Falcons. Once the Cosmo Tiger became available, the Black Tiger squadron was formed from the interception squadron. In the original, the squadron already existed. The name of the squadron derrives from the paint or color scheme, this is reversed to real world units. This has led to a 38 year long misunderstanding among fan on the fighter's name. The later Black Tiger squadron had red squadron "tail" colors. In the Farewell Yamato movie, the fighter complement was raised to 40 fighters. |
| boy wundyr x | 13 Jan 2017 9:35 a.m. PST |
I don't have the miniatures game rules handy, but I think it was 60 or so battlecraft (fighters, fighter-bombers, torpedo bombers etc.) in that. Unfortunately the fleet-scale miniature range is still missing some of the key fighters (aka battlecraft). |
| Jason O Mahony | 13 Jan 2017 10:36 a.m. PST |
According to the Star Blazers Fleet Battle System Game Module 2 & Technical Manual: 2 x fighter squadron (36)
1 x bomber squadron (18)
1 x Cosmo Zero There is an option to drop the bombers for an additional fighter squadron. Additionally, there is 25 support craft. |
| boy wundyr x | 13 Jan 2017 11:08 a.m. PST |
Thanks Jason, I wasn't too far off then. |
| green beanie | 13 Jan 2017 2:09 p.m. PST |
thank you all for the help. |
| Dynaman8789 | 13 Jan 2017 4:56 p.m. PST |
Just ignore the fact that the Yamato has NO WHERE near enough space to carry all those planes. Rabid Yamato fan here too, really looking forward to Yamato 2202. |
TheBeast  | 14 Jan 2017 11:40 a.m. PST |
Sure it does! Just remove most of the bulkheads, crew, flight crew quarters, most of the magazines, bunker space… ;->= Doug |
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