"The Tauri ship is very Powerful"what?[spoilers]

[Milleniumlance]

"In the Company of Thieves" one Ketan's lieutenants praises the Daedalus class a very powerful ship...yet it seems to get its ass kicked in every encounter...

[knowsfords]

Most of those encounters are against multiple ships tho.

[2ndgenerationalteran]

i think they are refering to its shields and hyperdrive as well as the beaming technology, which is superior to the goulds old stuff.

[Seastallion]

Most of those encounters are against multiple ships tho.

That is true. I'd really love to see how one Goa'uld Ha'tak mothership would do against two or three Daedalus class ships. I'm pretty sure that the Tau'ri ships would win, despite the fact the weapons aren't quite as good. The shield strength ought to make up for that, and put them on a more even playing ground in that area.

Daeadalus class: Weak weapons; Strong shields
Ha'tak class: Strong weapons (relatively); weaker shields (relatively)

[Avenger]

The rail guns are weaker than the Hat'ak's energy weapons, but the Daedalus class also has missiles, which help even out the weapons.

[cooky]

The rail guns also seam to pass right through shields with no effect. That ability is lessened by rail guns limited ability to inflict damage, but if we could target key pionts on the ship, say gun implacements or the Pel'Tak (bridge), even just using rail guns would quickly give us the upper hand against a lone Ha'tak.

As for missiles, the x-301 was equiped with a new missile design that was supposedly capable of penetrating Gua'uld shield technology. Though we haven't seen proof that the technology works, it is likelly that this technology is incorporated into the missiles on our warships, which would make 304's (or even 302's if we wanted) more than a match for a small fleet of Ha'tak's, if one ever bothered to actually fight, instead of run. The real problem is the commander's are to afraid to scratch the paint on their fancy new toys.

[Star Fox]

Intergalatic hyper drive, beaming technology, nukes, very powerful railguns, F-302 which are "suppose" to carry hyperdrives (not sure if they do anymore)


yea id say powerful, remember in atlantis the daedalus did heavy damage to another hive with railguns alone

[LORD MONK]

I would just love to finally win a battle.

[Smashman]

theoretically a 304 would smash a Ha'tak one on one, wouldn't it?

[Buba uognarf]

Intergalatic hyper drive, beaming technology, nukes, very powerful railguns, F-302 which are "suppose" to carry hyperdrives (not sure if they do anymore)


yea id say powerful, remember in atlantis the daedalus did heavy damage to another hive with railguns alone

The hive already damaged by a nuke and the rail gun fire caused secondary explosions by hitting internal systems in the dart bay, one on one unless the deadalus can get several nuke impacts on a hive the hive is going to batter it every time rail guns seem to be ineffective against them unless hitting a weakspot, as for ha'taks i think one on one a deadalus would win hands down...

[keyboard_warrior]

well the combined mw fleet versus ori battle at the end of season 9 the hatak vessels got pwned from one hit with the main guns, however the asgard and earth ships were able to take at one head on hit each.

[jds1982]

The rail guns also seam to pass right through shields with no effect. That ability is lessened by rail guns limited ability to inflict damage, but if we could target key pionts on the ship, say gun implacements or the Pel'Tak (bridge), even just using rail guns would quickly give us the upper hand against a lone Ha'tak.

As for missiles, the x-301 was equiped with a new missile design that was supposedly capable of penetrating Gua'uld shield technology. Though we haven't seen proof that the technology works, it is likelly that this technology is incorporated into the missiles on our warships, which would make 304's (or even 302's if we wanted) more than a match for a small fleet of Ha'tak's, if one ever bothered to actually fight, instead of run. The real problem is the commander's are to afraid to scratch the paint on their fancy new toys.

Since when do railguns pass through shields, I have never seen that? Would've been one hell of an advantage during the Camelot battle.

[Gelasius]

i'm curious why we don't have energy weapons, for ten years we've had gould tech for energy weapons, i'm sure we could've assimilated that knowledge into our ships already along with projectiles and missiles..


Gelasius

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

Well, one, the only energy weapons (real life) that we've developed so far are laser-based systems. Systems which are best for use against fighters and missiles, but aren't powerful enough to do damage against capital ships.

Two, Felger's energy weapon is problematic at best. It's possible they've put it on the shelf or scrapped the project entirely and are working on something new, which, unfortunately, takes time.

And three, while the tech the Asgard have given us is very, very good, it's still underpowered, implying that we need better power generation systems before we think about mounting anything as power-intensive as directed-energy weapons on our ships.

[Col. Shadow Quinn]

Easy, Goa'uld weapons knowledge isn't worth it when we can ask the asgard for help building our own energy weapons and reactor systems that way we can actually win the battles we're able to win.