I suspect Battlestar fans in particular might enjoy our original science fiction Audio Drama; The Sojourn. Check it out here! www.thesojournaudiodrama.com/

I love how Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock is such a solid, flexible game that you can use it get so much show footage. Such a good game.

You know, you can see the Valkyrie as a strip DOWN of the traditional Battlestars OR you can also see it as a buff UP of the Adamant frigate which is one of the most versatile and useful ships in Deadlock. I frequently found myself thinking "Gee if I could just put some Battlestar artillery and some flak defenses onto the Adamant I could build see myself building whole fleets made up entirely of them!" Apparently Colonial command agreed.

So that's the surprise ship. Always love using them in Deadlock. Their design is also sleak as hell

Battlestar Galactica continues to be my favorite sci-fi franchise ever.

I love this ship! In Deadlock, it really proves that these ships are small but definitely worthy of the battlestar label. I always thought it was an evolution of the Adamant frigate

Nice to see Deadlock's filming mode is doing its part lol. Best update to the game imo

Imagine a more technical and grounded Battlestar series. For instance, this ships wouldn't need to be in the same axis like in Star Wars, and two Valkyrie class battlestars could fly "belly to belly" covering their weak spot. It always seemed unforgivable to me to expose that much the FTL drives, given how important they are. Even more than the sublight engines.

One thing that I took from the official meshes (not the game footage that has monstrously oversized guns on her) of Valkyrie was that compared to the larger Jupiter class, she seemed more like an escort with numerous rapid fire, smaller caliber guns, much like Atlanta class light cruisers of WW2.

the editing improvements are STRONG in this one. Seriously, I know you said there were be editing improvements some time ago, but this was the first video I REALLY noticed it. Hats off mate.

Absolute favorite Battlestar design-wise and in concept. Not heavy like a Mercury or particularly reliant on fighters like a carrier, but its presence simply can't be ignored and agility cannot be discounted. Do not regret my buy of Deadlock.

I’m glad to see the smaller size quoted here - online there is a wide range of sizes quoted - up to almost as big as Galactica, but it’s clear from the launch tubes that this ship is far smaller.

Just got Deadlock on Steam. The Val has quickly become one of my favorite ships to fly in any video game.

I love the Deadlock music in the background. That game has some seriously awesome music.

More of this. Also always love BSG deadlock for background footage... Such a beautiful game with its designs.

Very happy to see you mention the launch tubes.

3:01 Love that shot :D I find it kind of funny that the "cheap and quick to make" Valkyrie has such a good in universe reputation. Like yeah it might have been an excellent ship but it still had obivious weaknesses and on it's own it wouldn't survive long.

Still my favorite ship on top on my favorite part of the lore. Knowing who broke the treaty first changes things. Irony is an understatement, the leadership failure in a Valkyrie-type Battlestar would lead Colonial Fleet to redemption. (First part was seeing if people got 2 the paragraph) Leadership failure should have gone to the top for the mission itself was FUBAR. Taking responsibility is what a leader does and doesn't pass the buck. Great video, sometimes what's left unsaid on this channel is almost as relevant as what is. Honestly it's great to see that the writing and narrative has grown with the channel. People have unrealistic expectations. I honestly don't know how people who have been seen the growth spurts here should expect things to evolve. Younger people should be telling people like me, that our viewpoint is unreasonable not the other way around. Godspeed to a future with better rev sharing to the gold award 🥇 sojourn. (Soapbox rant over)

When the Valkyrie charges into battle, the epic Walkürenritt music can be heard in the distance.

"Wait one, Yashuman, i'm going hot" That quote has a story to tell, its such a shame we didnt get to see some of that between Valkyrie and Yashuman in the BSG reboot series. Some comm chatter in the CIC of each ship showing the horror and confusion. Anyone else think the same?

Awesome vid. It's a real shame Black Lab doesn't wanna do anymore with the Battlestar license.. they had a really good thing going with Deadlock.

Out of curiosity was there ever a reason given in BSG canon as to why the Vipers need to launch via a catapult as opposed to taking off from the flight deck like the Raptors? (besides the obvious "because it's cool" answer?)

that was some gorgeous visual work/material used for the audio

One of my favorite ships in BSG!

BSG-37 has 4 of these in service. Good to see other officers in the lineup. Hopefully more will be promoted and join the ranks.

Always a pleasure to see more BSG breakdowns

This is my favorite of all the colonial ships. It is the apex of battlestar design. By this point in the war they'd learned a lot of hard lessons about ship design and resource management, and realized it makes much more sense to mass produce small but flexible warships than bet everything on a handful of massive ships. A couple of Valkyries can do almost anything a larger battlestar can, at a fraction of the cost in both materials and manpower. IRL navies figured out the same thing in WWII where the largest battleship in history (the Yamato) went down with a whimper, pretty much without firing a shot

My all time favorite ship from BSG, great design, great lore, love it all

I'm not even a bsg fan and i came running towards this video. I adore detailed ships~

I would love to see videos on the ships of the "Starlancer/Freelancer" universe. Especially the Galaxy class freighter. My all time favorite ship in video games.

You can also see two valkyrie class battlestars in very low orbit docked at the ground based caprica terminal in the caprica series

Interesting how you address Adama's command of Valkyrie. In the episode "Hero", Bulldog is recovered after being held captive for 3 years. Given that this episode has our intrepid fleet on the run for over two years (9 months in space followed by just over 16 month on New Caprica), that would put the Stealthstar incident at approximately one year before The Fall. Additionally, in the miniseries, Gaeta tells Adama how much he's enjoyed working for him for the past 3 years, presumably on Galactica. One could interpret that to mean Gaeta served under Adama on both Valkyrie and Galactica (as did Tigh), perhaps like our own Navy that has subs manned by two different crews (Red Crew, Blue Crew, etc....). Anyway, good video as always.

Yep, the entire Caprican fleet got "Khaned". They got their prefix codes. Khan: Where's the override? THE OVERRIDE!!

Been waiting for a redo of this ship for awhile. Well done.

Do consider covering the Sobek class from the fantastic fan game Diaspora: Shattered Armistice! It's non-canon, but it's such a well put together game which fits very well with the game's lore.

BSG doesn't get remotely enough credit. Still probably my favorite work of fiction of all time.

I absolutely love the Valkyrie Class! Thanks for the video!

I see that it's a pretty common sentiment that the Valkarie seems to be less of a "Lil' Brother" Battlestar, and more of a "next step" evolution of our beloved Adamant. Great game, Deadlock, and great videos covering the awesome ships. Now if we could get them to do something similar to this game, but using the ships, characters, and story of SG1, or Babylon 5. So many great scifi series that showed us some beautiful ships designs, and every now and again a few seconds of space combat.

with so many of them being made, you think at lest 1 or 2 of them would have survived like the pegasus to eventual join the fleet in the show.

Great to hear you again, Daniel. I was missing your voice.

Love BSG, wish they were able (or interested) in doing spinoff shows. I also enjoy your videos, all the details, the presentation and your graphics are awesome.

Overall, one of the best breakdowns yet. And the editing is a serious step up! Congrats! What a fantastic surprise today! I love the ship and I love the cost efficient platform emphasis. Very neoliberal military... the philosophical influence of which heavily influences the re-visioned Battlestar Galatica.

I have a Question. How would the Second Cylon War have played out if the Colonials secretly discovered the backdoor in the CNP program who might've won?

Still hoping for a vid about the Battlestar Theseus from Diaspora Shattered Armistice

What a beautiful presentation. I loved how subtly the background video matched the story you were telling

I love the Valkyrie, really wish we got to see more of it in the reimagined tv series. Also, does anyone know how to approximate the crew of a Valkyrie? I love details like that as it makes the universe that much more interesting, like the Jupiter-class holding 3,000 (peace-time) to 5,000 (war-time, or the Mercury-class (2,500). If anyone know how to know or guess, let me know. It’s one detail that I wish Slitherine Games had included in the specs for their colonial ship designs!

The Valkyrie and Pegasus are my top two favorite ships in Battlestar Galactica.

I'm not criticizing the ship design, but Season 3's "Hero" is when I realized the writers were really making shit up as they went along; they literally recycled an unused season one script, with no thought to how it would contradict all sorts of other statements in the intervening two seasons. The funny thing was when the writers actually came onto the SciFi official forum and dared fans to name a point they contradicted...and we listed off quite a few. To which they had no response. That Adama couldn't have been given a demotion to serving on Galactica only one year ago...when THROUGHOUT Seasons 1 and 2, they established that he'd been in command of the ship for multiple years. They just plain stopped paying attention. If indeed they ever did. It's painful thinking back to how much faith I had in this show, in Ron Moore, only to realize they were making it up as they went along - and yes, they always insisted "we have a plan" but they really didn't. Their original series bible only had ideas for seasons 1 and 2, exhausted them by Season 3....even Season 4, they at least sat down and scripted out "okay this is the final season"; so if you watch Season 4 in isolation, it's at least presentable action (though not a good final season)....Season 3 though, post-New Caprica...is one of the worst stretches of TV episodes I've ever seen. They'd run out of ideas, and the network insisted on having one continuous 20 episode season with no breaks, WELL BEYOND their capacity to produce them that quickly....it was just a hot mess of bad standalone episodes, often cobbled together from C-list plotlines. But the ship designs were always good.

I love my Eaglemoss battlestar's they did a good job building them.

😉👍Very nicely well done and very well executed and informatively explained in every way shape and form and detail provided on this format and subject matter on the Valkyrie class Battlestars indeed!,👌.

Battlestar in movies: Battlestar in Imperial delusions and megaprojects: *giant shell surrounding a star with some engines, jam-packed with weapons*

I didn't really like the look of these until I got them in Dreadlock, where I appreciate them a lot more. Also in that game they're rapidly becoming one of my favurite ship types. Small, but extremely mobile and if you position them right pack more of a punch than an Artemis.

“‘I’ve been looking forward to this”.

Keep the videos coming!! BSG is definitely my all time favourite show.

I always liked the shape of its hull, I think its a great looking ship. When I got my hand on one in Anabasis was shocked when I saw how tiny it is compared to the Jupiter/Mercury class.

Given that it'd favor head-on attacks over broadside barrages, it makes sense that the launch tubes are forward facing since that's the direction the enemy would most likely be in.

Happy to hear Daniel's narration!

I finished all the campaigns for this game a few months ago. Seeing how the story is over I didn't expect another video. Happy to be wrong. Did they start working on another DLC? I was under the impression they were done with the game.

I Love How most of the larger ships of the line have that crocodile aesthetic.

Seems like a mid range overgunned Light Cruiser/Carrier (It's smaller than the Berserk and Adamant Frigates...) Valkyrie might actually be a Canceron ship design given that we never saw a Canceron ship design in the game (Correct me if I'm wrong). Like the Minerva the Valkyrie was likely developed as an ultra cost effective alternative to Artemis and Jupiter Battlestars lessening local Colony Defense Force's reliance on the Ministry of Defense and Colonial Fleet for basic protection enabling the latter to go on the offensive. When Valkyrie was heavily damaged it was diverted (Along with 4 other of it's class) to the Ghost Fleet to serve as a Support ship for an unidentified Jupiter-II Battlestar. The Valkyrie design is well suited for Planetary Defense and stealth operations but likely not protracted slugging matches with Cylon Basestars (It took 3 Valkyries to defeat a Cratus Basestar in skirmish with 2 being lost and the third heavily damaged). Such a versatile design with continual refits would endure far longer than the Galactica which was never Refitted after the end of the First Cylon War.

If I could make a request for a breakdown of an upcoming ship? How about the Eagle Fighter from Space: 1999, especially sad it’s September 13 (Breakaway Day)? Just an idea 😁

Excellent vid, love your videos

Really need to watch this show

Could you do a video on the Atlas Carrier? I just like the fact its basically a bigger mobile flight pod.

I LOVE you new intro!

Adama's ship was an older MK I the one seen in the plan are MK II's, I know this ship well I spent two years building a full scale totally interactive MK II for a free battlestar galactica role play sim, it had everything a battlestar had from all fighter craft and shuttles down to paper with the corners cut off, I got wiped out by universal when they came out with battlestar galactica online though, my simulator was fan made not for profit but they considered me a competitor so crushed me, I eventual got a fair use agreement to reopen but building an entire fleets of fully interactive scale ships for both human and cylon sides avatars uniforms fully functional fighters with Newtonian physics down to the tiniest little detail like rank pips completely burnt me out so I just gave up. I built over 40,000 unique functional canon props for that sim and haven't touched a bit of 3d modeling software or coded since, it drove me slightly mental made me scared to touch a computer ever again basically. Still love this ship design though.

I need to buy battlestar Galactica: deadlock... it looks like such an awesome game!

Definitely my favourite Battlestar design. Maybe even my favourite Capital ship design ever

I will watch every bit of your BSG content at least once :)

Daniel's BACK! Woot

Possible suggestions, Wing Commander, Space Shuttle, Space balls, Predator ships

Finally! My favorite Battlestar class.

The workhouse capital ship of the Colonial Fleet. A pocket Battlestar or escort for the larger ships like the Mercury Class.

Valkyrie class reminds me of the jeep carriers of WW2.

These are the videos I sub for.!

Thanks for the content.

Nicely done and thank you

Can you do TIE bomber and finish off the tie line seeing you've done TIE fighter and interceptor

Great job!

It would be amazing if you covered all of the various transforming fighter craft from the Macross and Robotech series such as the yf-29 VF 25 and 31 ect as well as their various super variants

Bill Adama's favorite. He may have gotten used to Galactica, but he thought the old girl was a retirement prank.

brings back memories

Can you please finish the rest of the ships in Battlestar Galactica Deadlock?

Thanks for another great video

Would love to see one of these on the Adamant from Deadlock.

I have a hard time deciding which layout and configuration is my favorite, all of the different Battlestars or the Tauri BC-304 layouts and configurations. The contemporary weapons systems of the Battlestar are a bit weird considering the technological achievement of an FTL of any type. The battle techniques are also very accurate for space warfare at least by Newtonian physics. But, the BC-403 has a mixture of contemporary and next-gen+ armaments. The battle methods are interesting but I still think that few depictions of space battle have been done very well and accurate even with the non-Newtonian tech the Tauri have at their disposal. Counter to my statement above I think most SciFi ships are badly designed. I think that they would all benefit from CWIS along all of the sides F, R, L, R, T, & B, with the big guns along the length of the ship (Like the UNSC ship mounted MACs). Keep the muzzle of the bug gun pointed toward the target(s) at all times, you don't have to move forward for lift, move the ship about the muzzle of the business tools. This also gives you a smaller silhouette if the vehicle is like most shown in SciFi. Pull some Picard maneuvers, fire, jump, come about, fire, jump to another angle, come about, repeat. If you want to ambush the target(s) with multiple ships, jump into the space in a three dimensional L shape to avoid cross fire. Get them from above, behind, and Port/Starboard. Then Picard your way around the target(s).

I’m still waiting for a Lore video on the Mark 1 Dodge Viper. Still, good content as always.

Nice

Thank you

Just clicked on video, but i *hope* you go over the size discrepancy and choose the larger size :) @0:45 - It's clearly more than 3/4 the length of the Haraz, which looks like a Jupiter Class.... @0:53 - Ok So you went with 649m. That's half of a Columbia/Jupiter class. Now i understand why there are only 3 launch tubes per flight-pod.

I would love you to do a video for the Andromeda Ascendent.

Valkyrie looks like a battlecruiser, smaller than other battlestars, but likely faster/agile, with heavy weaponary but lighter armor. IMO one of the best looking ships of any sci fi show. I would like to see more of her in a series.

Nice remake of the Valkyrie. Now the Omegas turn next please?

If the FTL drive is this huge, how can smaller ships even have one at all? Does it have to be larger for larger ships? We know so little about the FTL technology that makes BSG Ships go, they practically replaced the Engine Room from Star Trek with the Flight Deck in BSG.

So say we all!

now that is a sexy ship still, galactica remain my favorite 😅

I would've loved to see a show with the colonials at their zenith.

I think they look an awful lot like an eagle from "Space 1999".

AMAZING

Galactica was never obsolete, just old. Newer ones weren't materially better.