Nebulon B no carrier image - Star Wars: Empire at War: Rebellion mod for Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
Rebellion aims to create a realistic, multi level strategic war simulation based on the second world war, and combine it with the original trilogys feeling. You'll be managing vast parts of the Galactic Empire, and eliminate it's many adversaries, while keeping order and piece by supressing pirates and rebels, or you'll be fighting a war of attrition by leading the Alliance to Restore the Republic in a guerilla war against tyranny, spreading rebellion and hope across the galaxy.
I think I'm kind of a nerd. This is why I look trough all the ship models I use in true scale to judge if Wookiepedia says bullshit.
I was always wondering about how a Nebulon B frigate could carry 24 fighters plus shuttles.
How could you fit any of those into that? The answer is: you can't.
Btw that dark spot on the right wing of the Sentinel shuttle is a guy. Just so you feel the scale.
I always inmagined they were carried under the main cylinder section like under a gozanti. i think it would be possible to carry 24 fighters that way.
Is this still following the 300 meters size? Wait no, of course it is (should). Do you think 300 meters is still the size even in the new canon judging by the Nebulon B's appearance in Rebels?
Looking at this particular model - which has the Empire strikes back lookout window - and putting the little guy near it, 300 meters length is plausible. It's just a very strange and unpractical design, although I still love it.
You could carry those fighters in a spaceship MOLLE system, but it'd look pretty stupid, they'd be very vulnerable, and very very hard to maintain/repair. I conclude the carrier function is just a game mechanic of the X-Wing series (which had sometimes infinite waves of fighters coming from these ships), thus irrelevant.
I think some of the fighters and shuttles are stored much like the Falcon was attached to one in the final scene of Empire Strikes Back.
While I don`t think they are capable of holding that many fighters, even that way, it makes it somewhat more believable.
Maybe they flatpack the fighters lool!
You have to remember that the woopieepedia got it's information from somewhere and that is 1993's X-wing, 1994's Tie Fighter and 1999's X-wing Alliance. The information in the games libraries and manuals is the same.
Nice to see this mod's still kicking, I hope to eventually see it released!
I just took a summer brake... which means 12 hours work days with occasional GSDTYVHs (get so drunk that you vomit howling) peppering it. I'm back though.
There was a scaled image of the hangar bay of the Neb-B that showed how it fit 24 TIE/Ln (Which the Neb-B being Imperial would be designed to carry.
It did so on a rack system.
Though i would say that only A-Wings or TIE/Ln would fit in there and at most 12 of them not 24. Just look at the Pelta and Farstar.
The massive hangar in TFU2's Salvation was utter BS though i love the idea of a Force Lightning Cannon killing an ISD. That was cool.
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You'd have to hollow out the main hull, it'd be tough as a blimp.
I think it better fits a gun frigate role.
Well most of the main hull is a hospital in the only one we ever see in the movies.
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So if they filled the hangar with medical rooms then that means most of the front was a hangar.
Wish they would show an Imperial version besides games or fan art.
It is interesting though that Luke and co. were made smaller in the 2011 Special Edition of ESB. Still not as small as what's needed like in TFU II. The one in TFU is at least 5x bigger.
Also take note that that model specifically is a lot skinnier (and the nose is too long, pointy, and scrawny) than your average Nebulon.
Very true, although me personally do like this model more.
This is my take on this situation, a blend of deduction and canon and legends. I see three different NebulonB2 variants. The standard Republic issue was a projection of force gunboat/light-carrier that was equipped with heavier Shields/wepondry and only at most one squadron (12) with one or two transports. The second republic variant was fitted with less weaponry/Shields but a larger hangar deck that had double the capacity. No shuttles stored internally in either version. Now, upon the rise of the empire, the first type was upgraded and kept in the main fleet (eventually being replaced by the B3), the second was not due to there being more superior light carriers such as the Quasarfire, in addition to the Empire's lack of stress on fighter support, preferring a better all around ship. Thus, many of the second types were either sold, privatized, or relegated to nonimportant duties/systems where they were easily captured by rebel task forces. However, with these being poorly suited to direct combat and with rebel fighters being unsuited to the tight hangars, rebels found it better to convert these into hangarless support ships with just a few fighters docked externally (either that or these were simply a third variant from the days of the republic, one which the empire had the least interest in) Thus, three distinct variants.
That's quite a backstory for a "they're heading for the medical frigate". Btw the picture might not show it from the right angle, but you physically can't fit more then 12 of those smaller/flatter fighters into this particular model (and that only by hollowing out the whole hull), not to mention the TIE Fighter won't fit in at all into a plausible hangar opening. Hence I've decided to use it without any fighter complement.
Hmm. Interesting. Yes, I was going off of some of the diagrams posted previously as far as hangar space. Also, I am biased I guess since I am used to the upscaled versions from the xwing series.
You are quite right... there is no way to square this circle. That said I'm sticking with what canon describes for the Free Lance, the Nebulon-B frigate that was almost destroyed by the Vong at the beginning of the Dark Tide duology. Moddb.com
Nebulon Bs carried fighters on external racks, hung on the small connector shaft. At 300 meters I think they can carry maybe around six anyways.