[Kitsune]

I'm terrible with names so they'll go without for the time being.

The first is a destroyer.
It's 2004 poly's as is.
It's designed around FS2's capship combat ai.
This AI tells it to continuously circle the opponent while firing it's weapons as soon as it can close within 2 or so.

So I designed a ship that hosts it's weapons off to it's sides.

Yes, the large green area is a rotating subsytem like the Bab5 destroyers and the solar panel on the faustus.
 http://www.furnation.com/corwyn/mecha/destroy1.jpg  
The dual banks of weapons shown are:
BGreen, long range flak, aaaf, heavy flak, aaaf, BGreen
BGreen, aaaf, infyrno, aaaf, infyrno, BGReen
The one by itself on the rear there is a aaaf as well.
The one barely visible next to the nose is a TerSlash  www.furnation.com/corwyn/mecha/destroy2.jpg
  www.furnation.com/corwyn/mecha/destroy3.jpg
Angled Close up
   www.furnation.com/corwyn/mecha/destroy4.jpg
Engine shot

Now, the next is what I call a strike carrier.
She's slightly larger than the fenris/leviathan, but can support 4 wings of fighters or two wings of bombers.
Sporting only 2 aaf, two heavy flak, two long range flak and 3 standard terran-turret lasers.
She's light on armor and weapons but has a top speed of 45kph, making her faster than any cruiser or corvette out there.
But being able to support any fighter or bomber changes it's damaging capability dramatically.
And as we all know, all any ship needs to do is carry alpha one and it's survivability goes up dramaticaly.    
   www.furnation.com/corwyn/mecha/carrier1.jpg
Side shot
   www.furnation.com/corwyn/mecha/carrier2.jpg
An angled shot showing some of the flight bay/deck.
   www.furnation.com/corwyn/mecha/carrier3.jpg
Size comparison to a Diemos
   www.furnation.com/corwyn/mecha/carrier4.jpg
Frontal angle, and yes, that horribly skinned ship coming out of it's side is a ursa.

For some reason if I have more than a few ships in there, the skinning gets really screwed up.
   www.furnation.com/corwyn/mecha/carrier5.jpg
Rear/engine shot.

Any suggestions?  And NO, that is not the final skin for the carrier.

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~Space Kitsuné
Creator of the Anthro FS2 Campaign.
Help!
--Edit--
Thanks for showing the pics correctly Setekh, I have no clue WTF happened there.

And now it's telling me I can't have more than 8 images when I edited it down to 8.

[This message has been edited by Kitsune (edited 09-22-2001).]

[Setekh]

Wow, you screwed up those tags there big time. And some of the pictures are missing - but here is what it should be like, for the pictures that are there...    

   

Now, the next is what I call a strike carrier.
She's slightly larger than the fenris/leviathan, but can support 4 wings of fighters or two wings of bombers.
Sporting only 2 aaf, two heavy flak, two long range flak and 3 standard terran-turret lasers.
She's light on armor and weapons but has a top speed of 45kph, making her faster than any cruiser or corvette out there.
But being able to support any fighter or bomber changes it's damaging capability dramatically.
And as we all know, all any ship needs to do is carry alpha one and it's survivability goes up dramaticaly.    
     
       
An angled shot showing some of the flight bay/deck.
       
Size comparison to a Diemos
     
Frontal angle, and yes, that horribly skinned ship coming out of it's side is a ursa.
For some reason if I have more than a few ships in there, the skinning gets really screwed up.
   
Rear/engine shot.

And I must say, that's a very fine ship you have there!

[This message has been edited by Setekh (edited 09-22-2001).]

[Kitsune]

Yeah, I know the tags were bad.
I didn't place the http in front of the urls, and when I edited it, it spat some html coding, showing a href links as well as UBB at me.

And I misspelled the titles, they were destroyer.jpg, not destoy.jpg.  

[Setekh]

Don't worry dude! Those are both really nice ships  

[WraithHost]

The destroyer is well designed to maximise forepower in one arc. This does leave it a bit vulnerable to fighter / bomber attack however.

Looks good but needs an escort ship if it's going to live long.

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[Kitsune]

Of course it needs other support.
It doesn't carry it's own fighters.

If a destroyer could do it all then it'd be pointless to have cruisers.
But the turrets pointing in the upper and lower arcs are aaaf's to help out in that arena.

[Mad Bomber]

 

Originally posted by Kitsune:
Now, the next is what I call a strike carrier.

You mean a dropship  

Carriers are large, destroyer-sized things. Dropships are mini-carriers between cruiser and corvette size.

Now, why everyone else seems to think of a dropship as a type of special transport, even though normal transports in the FS universe can drop onto planets too, is beyond me.

Dropships IMO are used to DROP into an area quickly, DROP their fighters and bombers, help with the havoc, recollect them and then scram.

So that ship would be a dropship  

[Mad Bomber]

oh yeah and nice job on both of them  

[Martinus]

Very nice work, you've given a lot of thought to the ships and I like the fact that you haven't tried to make another one of those super destroyer-esque ships. Lots of potential here  

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[Kitsune]

Nope, it's what I consider a carrier.
Think of this as more like a vtol carrier from today.  Carriers that only support choppers and harriers.

The strike carrier is going to drop off, retreat at a good speed, and be able to stay in the area.

I have yet to start on a dropship.  

Which will jump in, drop, jump out, then wait for the recall order to go back in to get everyone who's left.

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~Space Kitsuné
Creator of the Anthro FS2 Campaign.
Help!

[Stryke 9]

Ppbbbbg. [drools]

[Mad Bomber]

I dunno. I think smallish carriers should all be lumped into the "dropship" category. Dropships would basically be any cruiser to corvette-sized ships with a fighterbay. This means the Moloch would be redesignated under my system btw.

Besides, the GTSC designation is already taken  

[Mad Bomber]

 

Originally posted by Stryke 9:
Ppbbbbg. [drools]

I'm glad you could add something to the conversation  

[Stryke 9]

Snrrrrr...

[Kitsune]

True, the GTSC has already been taken, but who said anything about the GTVA owning the ships?  

Though I do see the point.
We could make it a Sc designnation, like the corvettes are Cv.
CV meaning Carrier Vehicle.
CVN Inclines that it's nuclear.

But then the whole naming scheme here is ruined anyhow.

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~Space Kitsuné
Creator of the Anthro FS2 Campaign.
Help!

[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by Kitsune:
Of course it needs other support.
It doesn't carry it's own fighters.

If a destroyer could do it all then it'd be pointless to have cruisers.
But the turrets pointing in the upper and lower arcs are aaaf's to help out in that arena.

I like ships with weaknesses. Opens up lots of mission opportunities  

[Mad Bomber]

 

Originally posted by Kitsune:
True, the GTSC has already been taken, but who said anything about the GTVA owning the ships?  

Though I do see the point.
We could make it a Sc designnation, like the corvettes are Cv.
CV meaning Carrier Vehicle.
CVN Inclines that it's nuclear.

But then the whole naming scheme here is ruined anyhow.

It would be tough to differentiate between GTSC and GTSc... same with GTCV and GTCv. Just use GTDs! It's just about interchangable with "strike carrier" anyways.  

i also thought up the Gunship class (GTGs) which is like a freighter-sized mini-cruiser designed to attack in hordes. This designation would also encompass Q-ships (converted freighters).  

[Stryke 9]

Who says you can only use 2 letters for the ship?

And it looks more like a Vasudan design: PV-, GV- or something of the sort.

[Kitsune]

Well, I wasn't going for attractiveness.
I was going for simplicity of design.

Take the orignal army jeep.
Blocky, ugly, and as reliable as your rifle.
And it was the simpleness of utility that kept it in service for how long?

[Shrike]

 

Originally posted by Mad Bomber:
I dunno. I think smallish carriers should all be lumped into the "dropship" category. Dropships would basically be any cruiser to corvette-sized ships with a fighterbay. This means the Moloch would be redesignated under my system btw.

Besides, the GTSC designation is already taken  

Dropships.... drop.  The very term implies something that is capable of surface to space travel under it's own power.  How do you apply the term dropship to an escort carrier?

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