GTC Aeolus

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GTC Aeolus


Description:

FS2 Demo Tech Room Description

The biggest, baddest, and meanest cruiser EVER. The Aeolus will smack you up.

FS2 Tech Room Description

The GTC Aeolus is the first cruiser class ever produced by the RNI shipyards orbiting Laramis II. Only two dozen of these cruisers were put into service in GTVA fleets, with production ending in 2365. Allied Command assigns Aeolus-class ships primarily to guard slow-moving convoys against fighter and bomber wings, as these cruisers are severely out-gunned by most capital ships in service today. Their flak and AAA turrets serve as marvelous deterrents to smaller craft, however.

Developer Notes

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Veteran Comments

Look upon its armament, ye fighter pilots, and despair. The Aeolus is the second most effective cruiser in the game, thanks to its array of flak guns and AAA beams that make attacking it a daunting prospect. The Aeolus will make mincemeat out of an unprepared fighter wing, and going one-on-one with it at short range is a very effective method of commiting suicide. It's anti-capital capability is good for a cruiser with two SGreens, however it is still incapable of taking on anything larger than itself with any hope of survival. Its anti-capital firepower is theoretically 1/11 that of the Deimos.

The missions of Freespace 2 are cruel to the Aeolus and do not show its full potential. For example in Clash of the Titans II all of the cruisers were severly damaged, even though at full strength Aeoli can fight off ~ 12 bomber wings and survive. In Their Finest Hour (which also causes many people to doubt the GTVA Colossus) many allied warships failed to have their beams armed, decreasing both their capital-ship weaponry and their anti-fighter defenses.

A damn good cruiser. Excels at escort missions, best demonstrated by the escort of the Bastion, where even though they were down to little more than 10%, they performed admirably.

there is no really no "safe" approach when attacking an Aeolus, so the the only real option is to use slashing attacks: Line up outside its range, charge in at full power, afterburn on the way out and do not turn until at least 1500M over onto its other side

Performance:

Statistics

Type Cruiser
Manufacturer Unknown
Manuverability N/A
Max Velocity 30.0 mps
Max Afterburner Velocity N/A
Armor N/A
Hitpoints 38 000
Shields N/A
Length 272 m

Armaments

Freespace 2
Turret Type Amount
Terran Huge Turret 2
Standard Flak 6
Anti-Fighter Beam 2
Small Green Beam 2