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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: ReeNoiP on January 02, 2009, 07:18:57 am
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I am planning a small campaign and would like to use a ship with carrier capability, but a smaller than a destroyer. Can I maybe use corvettes?
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in some campaigns corvettes carry a fighter compliment, but I doubt the amount of fighters that corvettes can carry exceeds one complete wing.
if the corvette has a fighterbay, it can carry infinite wings, you can try looking for a small carrier, I've seen some models around here which look quite good.
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Axem had made some crates with figter carrying capacity.
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peterv's Hestia carrier is just what you're looking for! (table may need a bit of fixing first though)
http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.239
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peterv's Hestia carrier is just what you're looking for! (table may need a bit of fixing first though)
http://www.freespacemods.net/download.php?view.239
Neat :yes:. That looks like it will be usefull.
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Some people reported that the turrets didn't fire. I didn't encounter this problem myself, but I may be mistaken. It's probably a bug in either the model or the table... Post I you have any problems.
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That ship looks like a battlestar's engines + a cargo crate + a little like the argo or poseidon + deimos textures.
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Hmmm, I thought it looked like a Deimos with a crates straped to the sides.
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It looks like a Deimos-esque cargo ship...modified to be a carrier to me.
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There is, in fact, an actual Demios with an Argo repurposed as a fighterbay attached to the side floating around out there somewhere.
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It looks like a bottle of brandy to me ........
Cool ship anyways i like it ! :D Love the beam emplacements even though they appear a bit useless if its attacked head on !
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I am planning a small campaign and would like to use a ship with carrier capability, but a smaller than a destroyer. Can I maybe use corvettes?
You can try my Lacer/Fury. It's a tad below 1000 meters. Dunno if that is too big for ya.
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It looks like a bottle of brandy to me ........
Cool ship anyways i like it ! :D Love the beam emplacements even though they appear a bit useless if its attacked head on !
If you're referring to the circular disk things on the sides, then those aren't beam emplacements. They're docking ports.
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There's also the two Carriers from TVWP (The Constellation and the Sagittarius) that you could use (the Constellation being cruiser-ish sized, and the Sagittarius being ~1km like TrashMan's Fury.
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Damn could of sworn those were beam cannons heavy beam cannons not slashers docking ports
I must really be off on my FS thingy these days!
But i remember a mod that had some beam cannon skins that resembled those very very close. I can not however for the Love of God remember which one.
Also TrashMan's Fury is a rather sweet looking ship. With adequate beam firepower . However because it is basic a carrier it does suffer from limited beam cannons but i do remember it had some very good AAAF capabilaties 2 fighter bays speed and manouverabilaty were very good.
There is a campaign that makes full use of the said ship mod. Also the Deimos looking brandy bottle pocket carrier looks awesome too. But i do not believe it should be able to cary more then say 1 squadron of strike craft.
If you're referring to the circular disk things on the sides, then those aren't beam emplacements. They're docking ports.
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Uh, you kinda messed up that quote might want to fix. Just a little confusing.
The things on the Hestia are neither Direct-fire nor slashers. They're docking rings. like on the Argo.
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It looks like a bottle of brandy to me ........
:lol:
And for the record, the Hestia's size is appropriate for carying 24 Ursa bombers.
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That's ... quite scary. For something that looks so insignificant.
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That's ... quite scary. For something that looks so insignificant.
That was the idea of it. After playing the "Homesick" campaign i thought that a Deimos was not right for the role. A ship of that kind sould be mostly a civilian project, something like a freighter whith it's cargo space arranged for carying fighters.
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Behold: http://www.game-warden.com/masterpokey/Aeoluglargy.avi <<< done entirely in fred
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What... is this MONSTROSITY! :lol:
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I took an Aeolus and 3 Argos in FRED and stuck them together to look like a somewhat large cruiser with a fighterbay. If it were actually going to be made into a single model, it would be cleaned up a bit (closing some gaps, making the fighterbay cleaner / bigger, etc.)
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I could see what it is, it's just... odd looking. It wouldn't have a very big fighter complement, I suppose. :)
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It ... actually doesn't look that bad, imo. Although seeing as how all the turrets in the Aeolus are unable to fire now, kinda useless. :p
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Well, its still got two of the "flak gun" mounts on one side, plus the argo's multipart blobs.
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I guess you could always retool all the blobs ... cause they're kinda useless otherwise ..
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Stick a Mjolnir on the front for good measure.
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Also TrashMan's Fury is a rather sweet looking ship. With adequate beam firepower . However because it is basic a carrier it does suffer from limited beam cannons but i do remember it had some very good AAAF capabilaties 2 fighter bays speed and manouverabilaty were very good.
[NITPICK MODE ON]
4 fighterbays actually. And a hangarbay.
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I made a Deimos with a conjoined Argo for somebody, forget who, a few years ago.
I'd be surprised if it's the one that's knocking about. It was (no doubt) full of nasty UV errors as it was my second project in TS.
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Sorry about that TMan . I must say that is one of the most spot on design's ive seen of a dedicated carrier. And it even has a bite to it thanks to its beam cannons but not too much of a bite as to make it an uber ship. People should use it as reference more.
Also TMan what about some new skin's to make it look more intimidating ???? Just a wild idea i had !