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Offline Blaise Russel

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RELEASE: Homesick, a 30+ mission campaign
Heh, thank you.

Yeah, it was my first, and it does show somewhat. If you enjoyed Homesick, you might want to try Sol: A History, for Inferno.

Well, it is my thread, I am allowed to plug my own stuff here.

 
RELEASE: Homesick, a 30+ mission campaign
I've played most of Sol: A history and one thing I found kind of silly was the mission where you're supposed to destroy the Phobos and Deimos bases. Are those supposed to be the actual moons? Because blowing up a moon was beyond even the Lucifer's capabilities (it didn't destroy Vasudan, just glossed it over).

The mission itself wasn't bad, but I think it would have been better if they were just asteroids which had been towed into orbit from the belt or something.

 
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Phobos and Deimos aren;t that big IRL IIRC, one is just 32km in diameter or something.
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Satellites
Phobos
Distance(000km) 9 - Radius (km) 11 - Mass (kg) 1.08e16 - Discovered By & Year Hall 1877
Deimos
Distance(000km) 23 - Radius (km) 6 - Mass (kg) 1.80e15 - Discovered By & Year Hall 1877


from http://space.about.com/cs/solarsystem/p/marsinfo.htm


even smaller then i thought.
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Offline Goober5000

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But the Boadicea is only 10% the size of a Martian moon.  And they don't orbit right next to each other. ;)

But good concept, nonetheless. :yes:

 
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but it should be within Lucifers power easily. since they have no armor all around, it should also be within the power of a few Orions, or one if you wait an hour or so.
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32km is still sixteen times the length of a Ravana and consequently far bigger than the NTF asteroid base which was used in the mission.

 
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i never played the mission, i just replied to the lucy fact. and my second post says the exact measuerments, 11 and 6 clicks, each should be rather doable for a lucy.
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Perhaps it would be doable for a lucy, but the mission itself didn't involve any shivans. Only the player with some buddies and some bombs.

 
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well, it needs some editing then, i geuss.
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Offline karajorma

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Kasperl I think your figures are wrong.

http://www.solstation.com/stars/mars.htm has different figures that agree with my astronomy books
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The inner moon, Phobos, is about 27 by 22 by 18 kilometers
(17 by 14 by 11 miles) and about 6,000 km (3,728 miles away,
and so circles Mars in less than 8 hours.

Deimos, the outer moon, is 12 by 16 km (7.5 by 10 miles)
but is farther away from Mars at about 23,000 km (14,300
miles), and so circles the planet every 30 hours.


Not that I blame you. I'd have expected Space.com to have got it right too.
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mmm, i had a feeling somethinw was amis, ah well, i wasn't off all that far.
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Offline Flipside

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At the end of the day, you don't need to destroy the moons, just knock them around a bit, they orbit on a gravitational shoestring anyway ;)

That said, I REALLY gotta play this once I've reinstalled my system :D

 

Offline Blaise Russel

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Uh... A wizard did it.

If I had any modelling skill, I'd make it so that you blew up a subsystem of a moon model that acted as the base, but left the rest unharmed (although the moon would be reduced in size, of course... Harbingers were intended for planetary bombardment, who knows what they might do to a mere moon?). And if I hadn't tried to keep the number of missions down, I'd have followed it up with a red-alert mission taking you to the other moon elsewhere in orbit around Mars, where the Tereus was having difficulty destroying the second installation due to a Martian cruiser wing engaging its vulnerable rear.

If anybody provides the moons - a moon model would be fine - then I'll add the mission when I refit S:AH for the Inferno R1 re-release.

 
Has anyone had problems with this mission? One of the mission objectives is to escort a Vasudan Support ship back to the Custodian and make sure pirates don't bonk it. The problem is, that it keeps getting destroyed . . . not by pirates mind you, but the Custodian. I've tried telling everyone to ignore the GVS but last time I tried it got smoked by a Piranha from the Custodian so I don't know what the heck.

 
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ah,  you too?

it stopped me, and after that i lost time to fiish that  mission and ergo the campaign.
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I made it past the mission. I just extracted the mission file and put in an event to change the IFF to friendly instead of "unknown".

  I've played a few missions past that, though one thing I don't much care for is just the number of pirates. It seems the pirates have like 100 fighters and all of them launched from a pair of cruisers. After the sixth or so mission it seems a bit odd. It would've made more sense to have the GTVA launching all the fighters

 

Offline Goober5000

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Yeah, the amount of enemy fighters in that campaign seriously strains credibility.  Especially against a piddling few wings of mercenary fighters.

 

Offline Blaise Russel

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They were, uh... magic... pirates.

 

Offline karajorma

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I ended up getting horribly stuck on the mission where you have to prevent the Sobek from leaping out. I could never disable the bastard quickly enough to stop it jumping out.
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