[67th GW Leader]

Hi all

I was making a mission for a campaign, and i was thinking "Hmm... a marine dropship would be great for this scenario" Along the lines of the one from Halo, or the game "dropship" for the playstation 2... you know... shaped like a plane.
Has anyone got something like this? or have they got something they could class as a dropship? if so, and you are willing to let me use it. send it to [email protected]

Thanks

[Killfrenzy]

I could make you one, but as yet none of my models have worked properly, and I suck at texturing! :D:D

I could make you the cob, and you find someone to perfect it, if you'd like.

[Ace]

Elysiums are used as troop transports and dropships in the FS universe...

Argos are usually cargo transports but can be used for marine boarding operations.

[67th GW Leader]

if you could killfrenzy, please do.

Well, Ace, i don't think the Elys and Argos LOOK the part for dropships... what i'm talking about is a light thing with manuverability...

[Turnsky]

like the one out of aliens?

[Alikchi]

That one was cool.. UD-J or something

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by 67th GW Leader
if you could killfrenzy, please do.

Well, Ace, i don't think the Elys and Argos LOOK the part for dropships... what i'm talking about is a light thing with manuverability...

s'pose I could finish off this......







('twas supposed to be player flyable, hence the missile banks)

BTw, I've done the Pheobus bomber, I just need to sort out interface art - particularly the tech ani.

[67th GW Leader]

Cool ship Aldo! That'd make a fine addition to my fleet

[Mad Bomber]

J00 f00lz! Dropships aren't orbit-to-surface transports, they're quick-deploying light carriers! :p;)

j/k, interpret "dropship" as whatever you want, I just prefer to think of them as having some butt-kicking potential

[beatspete]

Hmm, i'd quite like to desgin a dropship, but i cant.

So long as its not as pathetic as the dropships from starcraft.

pete

[Fineus]

Originally posted by Mad Bomber
J00 f00lz! Dropships aren't orbit-to-surface transports, they're quick-deploying light carriers! :p;)

j/k, interpret "dropship" as whatever you want, I just prefer to think of them as having some butt-kicking potential

Are you sure your not confusing them with gunships? By name alone the purpose of the dropship is to drop - wether out of another ship to a planets surface or whatever. But you get my meaning. It should be fast, unmaneuverable and with perhaps one or two defence turrets but largely relient on escort.

Aldo - that thing's pretty Aliens influenced isnt it

[Killfrenzy]

Originally posted by aldo_14


s'pose I could finish off this......

http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/reciprocity/aldopics/wipTrans1.jpg

http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/reciprocity/aldopics/wipTrans2.jpg

http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/reciprocity/aldopics/wipTrans3.jpg

That's a GDI Orca! Or at least looks a lot like one! :D

Thunder Edit: Grr... read the announcements. Don't quote full images - remove the tags.

[LAW ENFORCER]

I now have 3 dropship designs (well 2 are 'shuttles' and 1 is a dropship) but you proably wont want it (its much more detailed than Aldos but a lot more blocky and in .ms3d at the moment anyway)

Every mod or TC needs a good dropship! Thats what I say!

[Mad Bomber]

Originally posted by Thunder
Are you sure your not confusing them with gunships? By name alone the purpose of the dropship is to drop - wether out of another ship to a planets surface or whatever. But you get my meaning. It should be fast, unmaneuverable and with perhaps one or two defence turrets but largely relient on escort.

Gunships do not have fighterbays. I think of gunships as beam bombers. Bomber-sized vessels, that do bomber duties, or act as uber-heavy fighters, but that don't use bombs or torpedoes.

A dropship to me is a ship that can drop its fighters very quickly, and then help out in the fight. A quick, powerful hit-and-run light carrier. Great for ambushes or for small deployments (helping cruisers and 'vettes and such).

Of course, my idea of dropships is nothing like the troop transports that simply claim to be dropships. :p

[morris13]

Originally posted by Mad Bomber

Of course, my idea of dropships is nothing like the troop transports that simply claim to be dropships. :p

This is a fine idea, but unfortunately the term 'dropship' isn't something that you can define yourself. It is a term that has been used, and is in current use for very specific kinds of ship. A dropship, in every situation in which one has appeared in fiction of any kind, is not something which 'drops' anything, rather it is a ship that IS dropped. Specifically, an armed ship intended to bring troops from orbit to the surface of a planet. There are dropships in Mechwarrior, in Aliens, in Starship Troopers, in Space: Above and Beyond, the list goes on and on. In books, movies, or games, a dropship moves troops. Its not a carrier. I suppose you can make fighter carrier and call it a dropship if you want to, but trying to tell other people that they should use your definition instead of the one that everybody else uses is a waste of time.

[StratComm]

Originally posted by Mad Bomber
Dropships aren't orbit-to-surface transports, they're quick-deploying light carriers! :p;)

I think that falls under the Strike Carrier designation.

[Killfrenzy]

There's so many designations that it's easy to get confused! :D

I see a 'dropship' the same as in Aliens.

[Mad Bomber]

Originally posted by morris13
I suppose you can make fighter carrier and call it a dropship if you want to, but trying to tell other people that they should use your definition instead of the one that everybody else uses is a waste of time.

Meh, I'm just saying that my definition of a dropship can kick more butt than everyone else's. :D

Strike Carrier... nah, the xSC designation is already taken by Science Cruisers. It would work perfectly otherwise.

Escort Carrier would work, as would Light Carrier, except neither distinguishes the ship as being able to deploy its fighters very quickly. So, to me, those are a different (albeit similar) type of ship.

Of course, I'm not saying anyone else has to use my definition, it's just I'm offering an alternative meaning to the word "dropship", while being mildly annoying in the process. ;)

[Stryke 9]

Swedish Fish fighter?

[TrashMan]

I have a dropship model (4 turrets)and tested it in the game(has only 1 lod and no debris). It carries either a cargo container or a marine pod (the pod has allso 4 turrets)!