However, with the USS Vizier having weapons that could only be fired in a frontal fashion this caused major issues. This allows them to bring all their beam arrays mounted both fore & aft to bear. Broadsiding cruisers spend most of their time on a 90-degree angle to their target. She is at her heart a broadsiding cruiser. This is even more critical when you consider the Vizier’s build type. Covering as small as an area of 90 degrees on the torpedoes to the full 360 on the Drill Laser console.Īs you can see here with arcs spread all over the place it is a complete mess. Table 1 – Weapon Arcs – USS Vizier – June 2019Ībove, you see 5 separate arcs across twelve weapons.
Please note the below table taken from one of the previous blogs. It is also the swiss-army approach regarding weapons used that causes piloting issues for the Vizier. While she is a swiss army knife in terms of weapons she losses out on the capability of dedicating resources to further weapons to make them more devastating. Straight to the point, this is where the Vizier suffers. Then again, I don’t think many captains would think of such a crazy design when they could easily build a ship that could out DPS Vizier by factors of upwards of three to five times. As far as I know to my knowledge, I have not seen another build or entry into Reddit/STO builds or on the official forums. Having a twelve-weapon armed cruiser is something unique. The Weapon Arc Problem The Original Design As well as detailing two fixes in her critical flaws of her build. This includes changes to her design, elements added or considered. Now in December 2019 with the USS Vizier over two years old we look at where the USS Vizier is now. This included issues in her six-month review back in April 2018. I reviewed the USS Vizier’s radical design elements and how they had worked and hadn’t. In the previous blog Vizier – TNG II – Review of a Radical Design that’s now several months old.
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