Nebula Class, any purpose?

posted on June 15th, 2009, 3:08 pm

What is the Purpose of the Nebula class? Does anyone know? To me it is a ship with a phaser and a pulse (which should be a couple of torpedoes). Is there anything special with the Nebula class strategically?

posted on June 15th, 2009, 3:09 pm

Mobile sensor array (despite the structure at the top).

posted on June 15th, 2009, 3:10 pm

...and those pulses do well against enemy destroyers

posted on June 15th, 2009, 3:12 pm

Mobile sensor array (despite the structure at the top).

Yeah, but when you do full scan then the ship is defenseless...

...and those pulses do well against enemy destroyers

Sure it does, but usually I need a ship that  can out gun a turret, or quickly destroy a mining station.

posted on June 15th, 2009, 3:15 pm

Nobody said it was perfect for all strats

The ship does fine for defense because of its speed: stick it in your mining if you wish and you should be able to defend--work with what you've got 

The scan is useful when you don't have many other ships to spare, or no Venture (or no Canaveral Probes).

posted on June 15th, 2009, 3:18 pm

I wouldn't say defenceless, exactly. It still has good enough shields to survive until weapons are working properly again.

posted on June 15th, 2009, 9:32 pm

The sensor range on that thing is huge.  I always hope I get at least one nebula from my warp in fleet.  Plus they're perfect for holding the line when you need your other, more expensive ships to retreat.  People always slow down to attack the 1 or 2 nebulas that stopped running, which buys you the time you need to get away if you got in over your head or your opponent's buddy arrived to help protect his base.

posted on June 15th, 2009, 9:53 pm

the huge sensor range is also good for artillery ships in the back, so they can target things at a greater distance then.

posted on June 18th, 2009, 4:25 am

Use of the Nebula's  main strength is its sensors , the  good weapond capacities it has is just icing on the cake.