| This is the article on the Vaygr corvette. For the older corvette used by the Turanic Raiders, see Missile Corvette. |
The Missile Corvette is an anti-corvette ship used by the Vaygr in Homeworld 2.
Background[]
It is composed of a durable corvette chassis with a bulbous anterior portion that houses two sets of small Concussion Missile production bays and launchers (one on each side). These ships are able to fire a salvo of two fast, short-range tracking concussion missiles once every 7 seconds.
Overview[]
Per its role, the Missile Corvette is a capable unit when attacking Corvettes. It is also able to win against Interceptors and Assault Craft in equal RU values to itself, but this is due to the sheer attrition of their poor damage and accuracy VS the Missile Corvette. The dual Concussion Missiles are not efficient anti-fighter weapons, only dealing about 5 damage when they hit, which they often will not due to the way concussion missiles sometimes explode prematurely when chasing a relatively fast target.
The Missile Corvette can, with numbers, deal damage to Resource Collectors, subsystems, and larger ships like Frigates, but are nothing spectacular against them.
Homeworld: Remastered[]
MIssile Corvettes, like Laser Corvettes, come in squads of 4 ships and will split into two groups of two ships that scatter around when attacking. However, in Homeworld Remastered, all 4 squadron ships fly in formation while fighting.
Trivia[]
- It is one of the only two (the other was the Lance Fighter) Vaygr ships which have it's class name identified, being 'hammer'.
- The Hammer-class Missile Corvette should not be confused with the similarly named Kushan Hammer-class Heavy Corvette.