Deepcrush wrote:Tigh thought they couldn't take on one... Cain with a likely already damaged Battlestar and a pair of fighters did in fact take on two Baseships.
Two Basestars without either fighter support or any point defences.
Considering that Vipers and their pilots are clearly superior even when out numbered two to one. Its simple enough to see the Battlestar as the superior ship.
They're superior on-on-one, certainly, but they simply aren't good enough to take on two-to-one odds in a straight fight. We've never seen any Basestars destroyed in a straight fight. The one over Carillon was destroyed when the planet went up (and was only decoyed down there by the threat of
six squadrons in addition to Galactica - three times a Battlestar's standard complement). The two at Gamoray had no fighter support and had had their point defences shot away. The one in Hand of God had damaged sensors, allowing Galactica to get in the first shot.
We saw a ship that had been on the run and in constant combat succeed. So again I see no reason to believe a fresh ship couldn't complete the same task with equal or better results.
Are you talking about Pegasus in Living Legend or Galactica in Hand of God here? Either way, both those victories were achieved by placing the Cylons at a definite disadvantage before the heavy ships engaged, not through simple head-to-head slugging matches between two ships and their respective fighter groups.
Maybe a full Standard Compliment, but maxed out there's no reason the Battlestar couldn't fit 200+ Vipers.
Going by volume she
should be able to carry a thousand, but there's no evidence she actually can.