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Title: Any Vasudan military transports?
Post by: CP5670 on October 08, 2002, 12:38:49 am

I have noticed for some time that the Vasudans lack a relatively large troop transport. The Isis has good armor and firepower for a transport but it is too small to carry more than 40 or 50 personnel and is thus impractical for large ground deployments. It was basically a counterpart to the Elysium in FS1, but there is no ship in FS2 to match the newer Terran Argo. In my campaign, I put in a slightly more powerful transport but it is basically just a retextured Ma'at freighter with different stats and it still looks too small anyway. Has anyone out there made such a transport (Vasudan and Argo-sized) or knows of one somewhere?

Title: Any Vasudan military transports?
Post by: Black Wolf on October 08, 2002, 01:47:12 am

Inferno has one, the GVT Isten but it's unreleased.

Title: Any Vasudan military transports?
Post by: CP5670 on October 08, 2002, 12:26:02 pm

Guess I will just have to wait for that then... :D

Title: Any Vasudan military transports?
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 08, 2002, 01:57:21 pm

The Satis is more of a transport than a freighter, in my opinion. Freighters tend to have claws or struts to support containers, but the Satis doesn't. Therefore, I see it as a transport.

Title: Any Vasudan military transports?
Post by: Thor on October 08, 2002, 02:13:11 pm

Yeah, I used a Satis for PA.

Title: Any Vasudan military transports?
Post by: Galemp on October 08, 2002, 03:08:37 pm

The Satis should definitely be reclassified as a transport. Large, heavily armed, plenty of space; how often do you see one carrying a cargo container? The :V: missions often use Satises (pronounced satizees) for transports; they were even called Troop Transports once.

Title: Any Vasudan military transports?
Post by: Raptor on October 30, 2002, 03:59:02 am

ALL the Vasudan freighters and transports are too SMALL!  There are fighter craft that are bigger than the ISIS!  How can something that size be called a Transport?:confused:

What we really need is for all the Vasudan Freighters, as well as the Posidon and Elysium, to be scaled up in size.

Personal, I feel that 'Freighters' should be the size of cruisers, and transports about half that.  The current Satis could be used as a transport, but all the others are way too small.

Incedently, I have created a Vasudan Assault transport out of the Satis.  The textures are not that much difrrent, but that was the idea.;7

I would stick up a Pic, but i have no idea how to post such things (I'm still a Newbie here:( )

Title: Any Vasudan military transports?
Post by: Knight Templar on October 30, 2002, 04:02:01 am

to post a pic, you need to up load your pic on to the net first, then above were you type to send a response, where it says "IMG" , you click that, then paste the address of where you uploaded your pic. :)

Title: Any Vasudan military transports?
Post by: EdrickV on October 30, 2002, 06:11:51 pm

The Satis can't actually dock with cargo, so using it as a transport makes a lot more sense. (Any cargo it does carry would have to be inside it.)

Title: Any Vasudan military transports?
Post by: CODEDOG ND on October 30, 2002, 06:45:01 pm

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Originally posted by CP5670
Guess I will just have to wait for that then... :D

Ok, gimmie a few days for when I get back from my hunting trip.  I believe I have enough texturing skill now to give you what u need.

Title: Any Vasudan military transports?
Post by: Sesquipedalian on October 30, 2002, 07:39:21 pm

I could use that too, Codedog. :)

Title: Any Vasudan military transports?
Post by: CODEDOG ND on October 30, 2002, 08:31:01 pm

only prob is I can't do docking paths yet.  So it won't have them, you'll have to add them on.

Title: Any Vasudan military transports?
Post by: IceFire on October 30, 2002, 08:38:38 pm

The Isis is more of a shuttle...perhaps an assault shuttle because its tought enough to take a bit of a beating.

Title: Any Vasudan military transports?
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on November 01, 2002, 01:08:47 pm

True, or it could be a personal transport for paranoid people, or VIPs.