[Hades]

I thought it was cool......

[ShadowGorrath]

What was cool ?

[Hades]

The bigass gun....

[ShadowGorrath]

Oh well , I'll be adding more detail to it anyway . Someday when I'm not lazy ...

Does anyone want to see another ship I made ? The destroyer with 17000 polygons ?

[Hades]

Ok i want to.*Raises hand*

[Woolie Wool]

There's one big problem with your specs: shields don't work against beam cannons. That's why the GTVA was so confident about the Colossus being able to destroy Lucifer-class ships.

[ShadowGorrath]

There's one big problem with your specs: shields don't work against beam cannons

It's based on what ? Or maybe I just didn't notice that But these shields are so much more powerful than the ones the Lucifer had , that these sheath shields work even against Sathanas class warships . P.S. The design is directly from Earth .

[jr2]

There's one big problem with your specs: shields don't work against beam cannons. That's why the GTVA was so confident about the Colossus being able to destroy Lucifer-class ships.

Sheath Shields & fighter/bomber shields = apples & oranges.  They are completely different.  I will provide proof if you wish me to. 

[ShadowGorrath]

I do .

As I said - the sheath shields my ships use are much more powerful than even the ones the SSD Lucifer had .

[jr2]

Terran and Vasudan fighters and cruisers engaged the Lucifer, but were wiped out quickly.  Footage suggests that the Lucifer was using a new type of shield, impervious to any of our attacks.  Needless to say, this is grim news.  If the Shivans indeed have managed to shield a vessel of that magnitude, it's merely a matter of time before they wipe out all front-line installations and march through to our home systems.

Intelligence doesn't know how the Shivans tracked the Taranis escort, but they've got a team of engineers trying to figure it out.  They are also analyzing the shield system on the Lucifer.  Unlike the shields on the Shivan fighters and bombers, this shield appears impervious, not merely resistant, to all of our weapons.

[Woolie Wool]

Terran and Vasudan fighters and cruisers engaged the Lucifer, but were wiped out quickly.  Footage suggests that the Lucifer was using a new type of shield, impervious to any of our attacks.  Needless to say, this is grim news.  If the Shivans indeed have managed to shield a vessel of that magnitude, it's merely a matter of time before they wipe out all front-line installations and march through to our home systems.

Intelligence doesn't know how the Shivans tracked the Taranis escort, but they've got a team of engineers trying to figure it out.  They are also analyzing the shield system on the Lucifer.  Unlike the shields on the Shivan fighters and bombers, this shield appears impervious, not merely resistant, to all of our weapons.

Those quotes merely state that those shields are impervious to any weapons the GTA had. Which, if they were capital ship grade shields, they certainly would have been. Blob turrets are too weak, and bombs don't penetrate shields. If you have 200,000 shield hitpoints, bombs and blobs won't do a damn thing. Also, there's the fact that both kinds of shields fail in subspace. The Lucifer was impervious because the GTA didn't have the weapons to penetrate it. Beam cannons cut through shields as if they weren't there. Shielding a capital ship was and probably is impossible for the Terrans and Vasudans in FS2, and with beam cannons, it's futile as well.

[Vasudan Commander]

Im designing a turret thats like the mjolnir, but bigger, and kinda looks looks like the barrel of a 6 shooter revolver. It has 6 cylinders jutting out from it with a dampener covering them, and a large glowing reactor at the back.

So when it shoots, it can opt to fire each beam cannon in a cycle, or all of them at once for a massive pulverising on any poor ship that gets in the way. Also has 2 anti fighter beams, 1 on the top, one on the underside.


Expect pics soon.


p.s, i gave Shadow the idea for the name of the cannon. The Pilum is a long spear that ancient roman legionaires used in battle. When thrown, if it hit the target, it was almost always fatal. It went through most shields as well, skewering shield and enemy alike.

fitting for the ship. 


pps, while we're on the topic of shields, i might mention that my campaign will feature smaller warships, cruiser and gunship class, having shields.

[ShadowGorrath]

*Expects pics soon*

While on topic about shields : why do you think that there's only 1 type of sheath shields that aren't working against beam cannons ? I said myself that these shields are the super-powered version of the sheath shields the Lucifer had . This model came directly from Earth , developed from the Lucifer's debris there for almost 80 years since the Great War . These sheath shields can whitstand a 4 full Sathanas beam fire upon it .

[jr2]

And, may I point out, beams piercing shields is I believe just a FRED device to get the desired effect: if you're hit by a beam cannon, you're swatted like a fly.  But they should have had stronger beams, and stronger cap ships, and stronger anti-capship weapons instead... but they took the easy way out.