The Marauder is the unique nationalistic ship design of the UIT, however the model which is actually manufactured by the UIT is far inferior to the ship variants available from the other factions, predominantly the TPG and Corvus variants. Both the Itani and Serco nations sport several deadly nation-made variants of their nation ship, so the lack of effective UIT manufactured versions of the UIT's own national ship is somewhat jarring. In my opinion, the UIT should have a capable, competitive Marauder design of its own, available anywhere the basic UIT Marauder is available.

I propose the following ship;

Advanced UIT Marauder:

Level: 5/1/4/9/-
Armor: 11500
Cargo: 48
Weapons: 2s 1L
Mass: 4700
Thrust: 210 N
Turbo Thrust: 210 N
Max Speed: 65 m/s
Spin Torque: 7.0 Nm
Turbo Speed: 200 m/s
Turbo Energy: 50/s

The addition of a large port is the main advantage of this ship. The only other Marauder to have any is the Tunguska Marauder, which has two, but requires a far higher license level to get. This Marauder would offer a variety of new possibilities for PVP.

It weighs more than the TPG B-type Marauder (by +200), which it is most comparable to in terms of statistics, while still being lighter than the Basic UIT Marauder (by -100). Its armor is -500 less than the B-type Marauder, but +1500 more than the Basic Marauder. License wise, it compares to the TPG Marauder X, requiring a Heavy 4 level, but with all the other level requirements being identical. These are the only alterations.

Also, here is a link to the Marauder page on the wiki for ease of comparison.

hurray for more agt dual flare spam ships... not

It looks like an Axia Wraith with a big hold.

+1

As said before, the maud it the UIT national ship, and deserve some love too...

I would prefer to increase its armour, turbo thrust and decrease its cargo hold.

This is a stupid idea. UIT doesn't manufacture ships, it commissions them from other companies. Corvus certainly isn't going to sell the designs of their own maud to any UIT companies, and TPG is already part of the UIT. Anyway, the specs are propose is essentially a prom with free extra cargo space.

Up the mass, up the thrust a little, and give it reduced cargo. The Large Port is a bit unbalanced for a marauder... the Tung version has two large ports, but is heavy and very slow.

give it reduced cargo

Stop trying to make the trader nation's ship into a fucking combat rig. I swear to God, the worst idea VO ever had was not making the 'moth and all variants thereof the UIT's ship in place of the maud.

Completely agree with Dr. Lecter.

OP -100

Bah, the Centaur III is the primary UIT combat ship. End of story.

Bah, the Centaur III is the primary UIT combat ship.

Even that is pretty damn broken. The UIT Maud and the Centaur are both supposed to be trading ships. The WTD is the UIT's only real combat ship.

Buff the hell outa the Craptor and make it smaller if the UIT want an awesome combat ship that is all theirs.

UIT's new WTD is fairly awesome and I see no reason not to be satisfied with that at least until the faction redux arrives. I don't like your vision of what a special combat ship looks like either.

+1 to Ryan

Correct ladron, absolutely correct