Talk:Landing Castle/@comment-204.75.254.104-20140904004100

Honestly, I don't know if we've seen enough to make any judgment at all on the capabilities of the landing castles. Castle Cruhteo went down without so much as a fight, but that was against a peer opponent who was supposed to be the one watching Cruhteo's back. Saazbaum exploited his status as one of the Knights remaining in orbit to drop in directly on top of Cruhteo with only a few seconds for the castle's defenders to respond. Attacked by an ally, especially the one who is supposed to be defending your from surprise attacks, any modern military vessel or base would have been equally helpless under those circumstances.

Once Saazbaum landed, he almost immediately located and killed Cruhteo causing Castle Cruhteo's Aldnoah drive to deactivate and essentially rendering the whole Fortress dead so we have no idea what sort of countermeasures the Castle might have against a hostile Kat.

On the other hand we do know that the Castles when on alert can deploy massive salvos of cruise missiles and when in their landing configuration are nearly completely untouchable considering they survive ramming themselves into the ground with enough kinetic energy to vaporize everything for miles around. Sky carriers are also no slouches in combat when used with the intent to kill.

Presumably a Knight's castle is able to defend itself while they're away projecting force. So when used with appropriate doctrine I don't think Landing Castle are all that vulnerable to external threats.

Their internal security still sucks however :P.