So i was Making new ship names like putting " Daystar" on the Hull of Akira for my series, using photoshop and stuff last eve, and i noticed that i had always dismissed the "uss lakota" in the quick battle selections..I said what the heck. i remembered it was one of the taskforce of ships in Ds9 missions in KM, so out of curiosity i loaded it for a battle. first notice was it was the Refit Enterprise B desighn, which really makes Excelsior look sweet, but i also noticed this sucker was pretty darned tough holding out in battles, now when i film battles for mechanima purposes, i set them all for AI controlled combat and juist switch around camera angles, replay battle using each ship but same mix of ships patiently and start over to get angles from each ships POV and keep the best shot, AI driven, lakota did a remarkable job of taking out Romulan warbirds (but not the Griffen, my favorite looking of the BC ships non canon, i LOVE that ship and plan to use it in series as a new type of heavy hitter rommies unleash.) has anyone else used Lakota and paid attention? i haven't looked at the hardpoints stats which i may bother later with in Bcut, but is lakota supposed to be a wartime Upgraded Excelsior? is this why it os part of the Ds9 mission taskforce? it would make sense to me if it was Dominion war Retrofitted for combat. Using Dual fire Torpedo launch the Lakota's lighting settings seem to really be sharper than a lot of other models.