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Offline Androgeos Exeunt

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Ideas for Weapon Names
Hey, all. On a whim, I decided to start a small (redundant?) thread about listing down some potential FreeSpace weapon names, such as canon examples like the GTW Subach HL-7 and GTM MX-60 Rockeye. Let me start off with a few names:

PRIMARIES
GTW-75 Turbine (Gatling Gun)
GTW-84 Gauss (Ballistic Cannon)
GTW-382 Sphinx (Heavy Cannon)
GTW-881 Igloo (Experimental Heavy Disruptor Cannon)

SECONDARIES
GTM-20 Interdictor (Long-range High-speed Aspect-seeking Anti-shield Missile)
GTM-243 Crippler (Short-range Medium-speed Aspect-seeking Fighter-killing Warhead)
GTM-941 Harpy (Medium-range Medium-speed Heat-seeking swarm Missile)
« Last Edit: November 03, 2008, 08:54:15 am by Androgeos Exeunt »
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Re: Ideas for Weapon Names
Igloo? :wtf:
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Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: Ideas for Weapon Names
Colostomizer. Goes well with everything.
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23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
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14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

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01:09 < achillion > well
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01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
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01:10 < achillion > I was not

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Re: Ideas for Weapon Names
I'd go with the "GTW Shafter" myself.

 
Re: Ideas for Weapon Names
GTW Slicer
GTW Incinerator
GTW Hiob
GTW Andromeda
GTW Redeemer (maybe an ultra-heavy anti-superjuggernaught torpedo)
GTW Knife
GTW Axe
GTW Dagger
GTW Sword
GTW Claymore
GTW Broadsword
GTW Longsword
GTW Shortsword
GTW Kris
GTW Enfield
GTW Lee
GTW Lee-Enfield
GTW Springfield
(okayokay, I'll stop now)
GTW Zagreb
GTW Titan
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Re: Ideas for Weapon Names
GTW-945 Stoneager

GTW-999 Fat Mamma

 

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Re: Ideas for Weapon Names
GTM Mower
GTM Gungnir (anti-capship torpedo/bomb/thingamajigger that would make the stricken vessel feel as if it was hit in the face with a superdestroyer. Several times. After too many beers.(or worse: feel as if it'll wake up next to a shivan and wondering the why's, the whens and the hows of what might of happened)
GTW Slingshot (rail cannon?)
GTW Scythe (very fast firing shield eatinglow hull damage weapon, like a Subach, only less...purple or something? Else a continuous beam discharge, except that the thing would eat the weapon energy resesrves like...er...a Sathanas would munch up corvettes?)

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Offline Androgeos Exeunt

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Re: Ideas for Weapon Names
GTW Scalpel (Short-range Rapid-fire Ultra Heavy Cannon)
GTM Shatterpoint (Long-range Aspect-seeking Cluster Missile)
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Re: Ideas for Weapon Names
gauss = mass driver or magnetic cannon of some kind. after all - that's what it is :p
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Re: Ideas for Weapon Names
GTW Infinity ( Similar damage ability like the Prometheus, however, a EMP Disruption that can help the GTW Zero's effect)
GTW Zero ( With the gun effect of GTW Infinity, increases the fighter parts internal destruction)

 

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GTW-24A Broadsword (Experimental Blade Cannon. The cannon fires several projectiles at beam speed and at about 10 shots per second, but the shots use up a lot of energy and only travel up to 500m before dissipating.)
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Piranha style:
Squid
Octopus
Spider

Guns:
Regulator (if no ones used it for a ship)
Bonzi
Halberd

Missiles/Bombs
Badger (stole from TBP)
Wolverine (even though I hate Michigan)
Lance
Pike

EMP:
Storm
Hurricane



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GTW-999X Flanker (Experimental Heavy Cannon. Uses dark energy to create bolts that are invisible in space and do twice the damage of the Kayser, but uses tremendous amounts of energy.)
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Offline eliex

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GTW Nytemare (Sanity Destroyer. Fires super-thin darts into the fighter which release a <hullucinating inducing gas> into the oxygen regulation pipes of the fighter. The gas will be aired into the cockpit and will make the enemy pilot a danger to not only friendlies, but to everyone. Recommended for stealth missions.)

 

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GTW-666 Beast.  When deployed, it brings about Armageddon.
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Here's some I tabled once then accidentally deleted.  Don't remember the numbers...

Primaries:
GTW-?? Newton - Ballistic cannon came in 3 variants:
Light - Rapid fire, moderate shield damage, low hull damage
Heavy - Burst fire, low shield damage, improved hull damage
Assault - Single shot, no shield damage but massive hull damage
GTW-?? Flare - shotgun-like shield peircing TAG primary.  Doesnt do any damage, but lights stealth fighters up like crazy and the outgassing effect looks very much like flares stuck in the hull. (Never tested, don't know if it would've worked)
GVW-?? Shade - Vasudan shield-pericing gun.  Rapid fire, but little damage.

Secondaries
GTW-?? Thunder - Anti-shield missile: collapses all shield quadrants with a single hit
GTW-?? Pulsar - EMP bomb: Approx half damage of a helios with added EMP
GTW-?? Lancer - Unguided cyclops: 75% standard cyclops damage, but twice as fast and 20% smaller
GTW-?? HGD - Heavy Gravity Device: Suicide weapon featuring an inverse blast.  Effectively a black hole generator.
GTW-?? Tempest S: Streak Tempest missile: near intant lock-on and greater damage, but larger and can't be dumbfired
GTW-?? Wasp - Tempest-sized dumfire bomb.  Relatively small payload, but very effective agaisnt subsystems
When the reactor explodes, it's usually a sign that you've taken too much damage.

 

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GTW-186b "Penetrator"  :nervous: sub-surface detonation warhead :drevil: ;7
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GTM 001 Haunteur - Upon the successful strike on the target, the missile, will inject a Fighter Virus, that forces the fighter in subspace, a process that might kill and shock the pilot to death.


 

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GTM 001 Haunteur - Upon the successful strike on the target, the missile, will inject a Fighter Virus, that forces the fighter in subspace, a process that might kill and shock the pilot to death.

Kill the pilot to death?  :wtf:
It would make more sense if the missile sucked the ship into subspace, rather than forcing the fighter to engage subspace drives. But why would being sucked into subspace kill the pilot?

Cannon:
GTW Vulcan
GTW Thunder
GTW Lightning
GTW Pulverizer
GTW MetalStorm
GTW Mace
GTW Ribaldequin
GTW Arqebus
GTW Musket
GTW Scramasax
GTW Katana
GTW Quarterstaff
GTW Bludgeon
GTW Blunderbuss
GTW Hwach'a
Missiles:
GTM Hydra
GTM Javelin
GTM Mangonel
GTM Onager
GTM Python
GTM Sidewinder
GTM Sparrow
GTM Falcon
GTM Maverick
GTM Shuriken
Torpedoes:
GTM Messenger
GTM Omega Point
GTM Herald
GTM Annihilator
GTM Bikini Atoll
GTM Castle Bravo
GTM Little Boy
GTM Fat Man

Found Scramasax and Onager on Wikipedia, they sound good.

 

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GTM 001 Haunteur - Upon the successful strike on the target, the missile, will inject a Fighter Virus, that forces the fighter in subspace, a process that might kill and shock the pilot to death.




Engage the subspace drive, then overload the drive and open the canopy perhaps?
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

Your friendly Orestes tactical controller.

Secret bomb God.
That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
GO GO DEKKER RANGERSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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