[Mad Bomber]

Hey all, been a while and I feel inspired to try my hand at another campaign (albeit a lot less ambitious than the now-defunct Eden Project).

Problem is, I need something to serve as a converted mercenary flagship. A heavily augmented Deimos-Argo combo (side-by-side)
with a fighterbay.

The jist of it is I'd like the Argo sticking parallel out the starboard side of the Deimos, with the Argo's docking port being widened and turned into a fighterbay egress point.

If someone could do that (my skills are certainly not up to it) people could use it for pirate warships in their other campaigns too. (Good as Homesick was, I couldn't help wondering just where I launched from on the Custodian, or how the GVC Keops supported two dozen fighters on its own.)

Damn, it's been too long since I've been active in the FS community...

[aldo_14]

you could always use the PTCa Baranec.  

It's what i made it for, after all.

(Images are broken, unfortunately, and i don't have any others handy)

[Mad Bomber]

Download link is also broken.

Do you still have a copy on your system or the server or something, or was everything under the Reci directory summarily deleted?

Oh, and nice name

[aldo_14]

Whoops.  Will check - must be on fileplanet *hack* *spit* somewhere, had to move all the DLs there a while back after gamespy moaned about it.

http://www.fileplanet.com/dl.aspx?/3dactionplanet/hlp/hosted/reciprocity/piratesahoy.zip  

(maybe - can't remember my bloody fileplanet ID)

[Mad Bomber]

Well if it is, it's certainly not listed in their database. (sigh)

[edit] never mind Thankies, the link works now (dint notice it the first time I looked at your post)

I'll need to wait till I get home to see if it'll serve my purpose but as long as it's not too big it should do well (bear in mind mercenaries can rarely afford destroyer-class vessels except by salvaging old Reliants or something.)[/edit]

[aldo_14]

k.  I'm not on my home PC justnow, but when I am, i'll check the copies of the old reci download pages, and get the link from there.

[Mad Bomber]

(bored, downloads Modelview)

Heh. that's "hard rock" if I ever saw it. But I was thinking a merc refit of an existing warship rather than a jury-rigged asteroid ship.

Still, might be useful


The fighter is well designed as well, very avian. PF Raven perhaps? Doublethankies. (tho I'd need to come up with a good reason for pirates to be creating and using their own design... hmm.)

CRAPivesaidtoomuch

[aldo_14]

The tech description has my own reasons for that (something to do with a refit of a civvie / police vessel with added 'roid camo or something).

[Night Hammer]

Yeah the Baranec is one of my favorite models, looks very good in an asteroid field

[Solatar]

I had a version where I took out the engines and just made it a midget installation...looked very cool.

[Taristin]

Wibbles MB!

[Mad Bomber]

Originally posted by Raa
Wibbles MB!

Wibble wobble!

[aldo_14]

It actually takes only about 5 minutes to make a 'roid base / ship (slight underexaggeration)...it's really easy, becuase the vast majority can be a single texture, it's a roid so you don;t need to worry about making it particulrly tidy (better if it's irregular), and you should really only have small sections of actual textured 'metalwork' or lights visible.

Albeit i just had an idea for something significantly more complex and good looking, but i'll have to come back to that idea later.

[Mad Bomber]

It is good to be able to reuse textures, innit?

But mercenaries (whom the campaign will be based around) don't generally use asteroid-based textures. They tend to use surplus stuff lying around. It costs less to make a makeshift dropship than to make a whole asteroid-camo scheme and base a custom vessel off of it.

Which is why I suggested the whole Deimos-Argo combination vessel.


(Then again, did anyone ever come up with a fighterbay cargo pod?)

[aldo_14]

It's not an asteroid camo scheme, though.  It is an asteroid (in terms of the Baranec & roid bases in general).

The nitpick I'd have with a Deimos is that that's a military grade vessel.... how many modern day mercs would have access to, say, a working destroyer, for example?

(I was going to suggest a WW2 or mothballed warship, but it's not really parallel to the Deimos, as that's a very modern, newly introduced ship).

[magatsu1]

check out Dark's asteroid base on the Hades Combine. That rocks (heh) but IIRC doesn't have LODs.

[Mad Bomber]

Which, the GVI Cheops? I was planning to use that in fact. You read my mind.

Aldo you're exactly right. Mercs, by and large, don't have access to newer military equipment, or anything large (MAYBE one corvette). Which is why the Deimos-Argo thing (CSCv Victor) would be their flagship, with a small flotilla of old light warships and converted freighters tagging along.

Bear in mind this is meant to be a comparably large and respected merc group in the Polaris/Pegasi sector.

[Mad Bomber]

*bump*

To possibly save myself the trouble, I oughta ask. I've searched through about a year's worth of threads and haven't found any Terran or Vasudan ships under 1000m long that have both a fighterbay and engines, aside from the war-cruiser Gryphon, and the sci-vessel Imhotep (both of which I intend to use, if that's okay, tho the Imhotep will be using its fighterbay for a decidedly different purpose )

So is there a non-Shivan vessel under frigate-size (pref. 900m or smaller) with a fighterbay, that's downloadable? Or should I take the plunge and figure out how to modify the Deimos and Peleus in Truespace?


*edit* Damn. Now after I've looked through even older threads, I find out there were plenty of light carriers and such vessels, but either they weren't released, or the download link has since been rendered dead.

Bah. Looks like I'll have to make (respectively) the Victor and Telamon myself.

Oh well, thanks anyways p33ps.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Mad Bomber
*bump*

To possibly save myself the trouble, I oughta ask. I've searched through about a year's worth of threads and haven't found any Terran or Vasudan ships under 1000m long that have both a fighterbay and engines, aside from the war-cruiser Gryphon, and the sci-vessel Imhotep (both of which I intend to use, if that's okay, tho the Imhotep will be using its fighterbay for a decidedly different purpose )

So is there a non-Shivan vessel under frigate-size (pref. 900m or smaller) with a fighterbay, that's downloadable? Or should I take the plunge and figure out how to modify the Deimos and Peleus in Truespace?

Oh well, thanks anyways p33ps.

The Njord, but I'm not sure of the scale.  It's cruiser sized, possibly about 400m long.  It wasn't designed to carry more than 4 fighters, though (and drones at that...not sure how well the scale will work).  But it does have a working fighterbay.



http://www.fileplanet.com/dl.aspx?/3dactionplanet/hlp/hosted/reciprocity/njord_public.zip

(it was intended as a long-range artillery cruiser.... the actual idea was that it would launch missiles with a long, very bright trail that the player could use to 'follow' to find a target in a EMP nebula / sensor-less situation)

[magatsu1]

you sure a Deimos is big enough to accomidate a fighter bay ? where you gonna put it ?

Wouldn't be hard to do BTW, just a pain in the ass redoing all the pof data