holy smoothing errors batman!
OK they aren't that bad but there's a few at the back. smoothing errors can mean the difference between an awesome and a ****e model imho.
Gorgeous! Again, the wing panels are too thick... but, I'd also like to see them beveled more instead of stuck out at 90 degrees from the hull.
So, where's the pilot, in the top or on the bottom?
Well, that`s a good question. I haven`t thought about it yet, but it looks like this is the only two-seated fighter in FS2 :)
Erm... it's not in FS2, and it's not the only two seater. But anyhow, the Anubis is a flying coffin designed for high casualty swarming and kamikaze attacks. Why in Vega would they put two Vasudans in there?Well, I can`t remember any other two seated fighter...
The front glossy area looks like it should be a turret (with the guns on either side). What if the original version (storywise) was in fact a bomber (not a big one, but something more similar to the naval dive bombers of WW2). If that small thing carried a very large bomb, it's manouvrability could go low enough to need a turret. In more modern times, the Vasudan have larger bombers with internal bomb bays, and so the Anubis, which is very cheap (and reasonably manouvrable without the bomb), has become a fighter with fixed guns and a more advanced sensor suite in the turret housing.I'm against that idea, something that major would probably be at least mentioned in the tech description. Also, the Anubis has miniscule secondary capacity and is actually quite fast and maneuverable if you ignore its lack of afterburner. And it makes no sense to leave your turret structure there if you're just going to gut it and replace it with something completely different. Its lack of meaningful weaponry and high maneuverability relative to a bomber lead me to the conclusion that it is nothing more than a light skirmish fighter, as described in its loadout statistics, deployed only because of its cheap cost for construction. (Also, it makes no sense to upgrade cheap things you're just going to throw at the enemy red army style)
A possible answer for the two glassed areas would perhaps be a compact living area for long duration patrols in systems not worth a carrier or basing facilities... just a thought. Looks good, but as has been stated, the greebling is generally too pronounced. Keep it coming!
mini living quartersI find it unlikely for living quarters of any sort to be built into fighters. Especially into an Anubis.
The Vasudan could fit in both of these.
But for now, i`ll just make some machinery in the one above. You can call it whatever you like :)
While lives may be cheaper than rifles, once you're talking about training pilots to fly fighters they become worth a bit more. Training and experience isn't something you want to lose.
Only the HOL do that...While lives may be cheaper than rifles, once you're talking about training pilots to fly fighters they become worth a bit more. Training and experience isn't something you want to lose.
Which is why Vasudan commanders deliberately loaded explosives into fighters and told their pilots to ram capital ships?
Only the HOL do that...
A few radical Vasudans have been known to load the ship with explosives and attempt to steer themselves into GTA capital ships. The first occurrence of this was the battle of Rexias 4, where the GTD Goliath was destroyed by a squadron of kamikaze pilots.
Quote from: techroomA few radical Vasudans have been known to load the ship with explosives and attempt to steer themselves into GTA capital ships. The first occurrence of this was the battle of Rexias 4, where the GTD Goliath was destroyed by a squadron of kamikaze pilots.
Yeah. Radicals. prolly means its not standard practice.
Only fanatics like the HoL do that.
Not that it matters TOO much, but the "sensors" sub-system of the Anubis seems to be set fairly squarely on the upper pod.Uhh, if the eyepoint is on the top one, doesn't that mean it's the top one that should have the pilot in it?
Of course so is the eyepoint...I digress. I'll take what I'm given.
Rexias 4?Anubis TD
And BTW, the Anubis is specified as a "Light Skirmish" craft.Which is techspeak for cannon-fodder.
It's a planet. Just like Cygnus Prime in Deneb.No, since the name of the planet is Rexias 4, that signifies that it is the fourth planet of the Rexias system.
It's a planet. Just like Cygnus Prime in Deneb.No, since the name of the planet is Rexias 4, that signifies that it is the fourth planet of the Rexias system.
The Roman numbering system arose with the very first discovery of natural satellites other than Earth's Moon: Galileo referred to the Galilean moons as I through IV (counting from Jupiter outward), in part to spite his rival Simon Marius, who had proposed the names now adopted. Similar numbering schemes naturally arose with the discovery of moons around Saturn and Mars. Although the numbers initially designated the moons in orbital sequence, new discoveries soon failed to conform with this scheme (e.g. "Jupiter V" is Amalthea, which orbits closer to Jupiter than does Io). The unstated convention then became, at the close of the 19th century, that the numbers more or less reflected the order of discovery, except for prior historical exceptions (see the Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites). The convention has been extended to natural satellites of minor planets, such as "(87) Sylvia I Romulus".
source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_designation_in_astronomy#Satellites_and_rings_of_planets)
It's a planet. Just like Cygnus Prime in Deneb.No, since the name of the planet is Rexias 4, that signifies that it is the fourth planet of the Rexias system.
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