The Shipyard: Earth Alliance Fleet Carriers for A Call to Arms
To say the Earth Alliance Crusade Fleet is a departure from the previous Early Years and 3rd Age lists would be something of an understatement. Earth ships are very middle of the road with their fighters being what pushes them up to a fairly competitive force. Their fighters are not the best and are outmatched by those of other races such as the Minbari Nial and Dilgar Thorun, but you can take lots of them. The Nova Dreadnoughts and Avenger carriers allow you to deploy fighters in huge numbers giving you quantitive superiority against almost all opposing fleets, and qualitative superiority against most of those. With the Crusade Era fleet you lose access to most of your fighter carrying capacity and you will find that you have to use your fighters defensively and the only thing in the Crusade fleet that makes that possible is the Chronos-class Escort Frigate introduced in Powers and Principalities. This is one of the best anti-fighter platforms in the game and will level the field agai...
