Star Trek: Armada III begins with the first stirrings of the Dominion War and allows players to take command of five unique factions, the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, the Cardassian Union/Dominion Alliance, and the Borg Collective. Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.
New Buzzard-class Model
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The new Romulan Battlecruiser model is finished!
The D'deridex is pretty, but this is the ship the Romulans send when they want to obliterate your whole damn civilization.
I thought the Romulans would send the Scimitar when they wanted to wipe out a civilization :P
This looks like it is smaller than D'deridex.
That's a deliberate illusion on the D'deridex's part. The D-bird was given large, swooping wings, giving it a great deal of surface area and therefore the illusion of immense size. It's an intimidation thing. In reality it probably had about the same amount of mass as a Galaxy class, despite appearing much larger.
As a dedicated assault ship (as opposed to the D'deridex's multi-role design) the Buzzard's mass is much more concentrated. It anything it has MORE mass than a D'Deridex.
Make no mistake, the Buzzard plays a sturdy and potent part in the Romulan fleet.
Yeah, but unless you count STO (which is debatable - just ask Ambarenya if you want to get into the nitty-gritty of the pros and cons of STO as canon), the Scimitar was a one-off ship built by the Remans.
The Romulans can be (and often are) brutal to their enemies, but exterminating a planet in a single stroke? That'd give even them pause. The Romulans don't eradicate - they conquer. And while their sensibilities are somewhat harsher than those of the Federation, they do have a sense of honour and conscience.
The Buzzard is basically the Romulan tank - it has a lot of solid mass and a great deal of firepower making it ideal for assaults, particularly against starbases - it has a Siege Mode, making it unique among all capital ships in the game.