[Liberator]

Originally posted by Raa
Assault fighter. With the latest beam technologies, Bombers are becoming lesser and lesser valuable.

It'd be the other way around wouldn't it?  Bomber's would be more valuable, because they are the only things that can carry large enough ordinance to rapidly disarm the larger vessels(I'm thinking Sathanas here) before they rip the guts out of their opponents.  They would just become more fighter-like in their performance.  HMMM, that's got me thinking, wouldn't it be likely that bombers would be so focused on secondary loadouts and engine power that they wouldn't mount hoss guns like the Kayser or the Maxim due to the energy requirements?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Raa
*bump*

Slight update. It's UV mapped, but now I have to texture it...
joy.

I've never mapped Vasudan ships before. I fear I'll screw it up verily...

It's easier than terran ships... you don;t have to worry about things making sense, for one.

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Liberator


It'd be the other way around wouldn't it?  Bomber's would be more valuable, because they are the only things that can carry large enough ordinance to rapidly disarm the larger vessels(I'm thinking Sathanas here) before they rip the guts out of their opponents.  They would just become more fighter-like in their performance.  

I meant in a traditional sense... Bombers wouldn't be used for destroying capital ships anymore, when ships are being armed with beam cannons. Bombers have a completely different role now, and will be less like bombers, and more like tactical heavy assault vehicles.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Raa


I meant in a traditional sense... Bombers wouldn't be used for destroying capital ships anymore, when ships are being armed with beam cannons. Bombers have a completely different role now, and will be less like bombers, and more like tactical heavy assault vehicles.

And we've come full circle with bombers returning to the role they had before FS1

That's actually pretty realistic in terms of military history in many ways.


That said I don't buy it. Start producing more Helios's and the cap ship killing bomber isn't anywhere near obsolete.

[aldo_14]

Just up the ante with better AAAf & Flak....

Then you can have the 2 distinct classes of bomber - the strike bomber, which takes out the defensive turrets & the weapons subsystems to clear the way for the assault bomber, which is slow but carries the big guns.

And the fighters, which either cover or attack bombers.

[Taristin]

*Still texturing*

I should probably be following the same texturing method as I did with Terran ships. Look for an image update in the next day or so...

[Setekh]

Next day or so, eh?

[Sandwich]

Yeah, eh?

[Taristin]

...Err. I haven't really been able to work on it in a while...  Or anything else for that matter. It'll get done some time.