Anchient Tech air vehicle

[7ruth]

Well a few nights ago I was having a hard time falling to sleep. So I started thinking about the show 'Stargate', and I remembered an episode where they were trading supplies/tech with a civilzation that was in a war. These people used unmaned aircraft where a pilot would control a small squadron of 3 of these engines with guns, and the lead aircraft had a camera on it. Well enough story telling and heres my idea:

Lance:Anchient Tech
Type: Interceptor
Role: Anti-Air
Primary Weapon: 2 pulsar type weapons
Secondary Weapon: Lancer type weapon
Occupants: 1
Speed: 100 KPH, 125 (with second fire/formation mode)
Handling: good
Certifications Needed: I'm thinking something similar to what we know of the BFR certing system with the attunement stuff... Write up later

The vehicle is actually 3 small craft, the center is the control module with the other 2 weapons modules. There are 2 fire/formation modes
Mode 1)The 3 modules pull in and look like a single craft and the weapons will be rapid fire and do similar damage to the Pulsar.
Mode 2)The 3 modules spread apart by about meter, side modules will become slightly lower, and the weapon on center module will fire similarly to the lancer(charging for a second then fire)

Ill finish and polish the info tomorrow... it needs a name...

[Earlydawn]

Very cool concept. Reminds me of the alien craft in Wing Commander: Prophecy that could split or rejoin for different configurations.

[Hayoo]

Originally posted by CDL-Earlydawn@Aug 11 2004, 04:33 AM
Very cool concept. Reminds me of the alien craft in Wing Commander: Prophecy that could split or rejoin for different configurations.

You're scaring me, Early. I was just looking at Wing Commander: Prophecy just a while ago. :P Doing research on its starmaps.

[Earlydawn]

Hehe, yeah. Good game. While I don't think it was as good as Freespace (Outstanding game, probably the best space combat piloting game avaliable), was still a great title.

Nice to fight somebody other then the Kilrathi, for once. :D

[7ruth]

Sorry, i'm going to shelve this for awhile and work on something more useful for everyone. That being Outfit improvements.

[Mug]

I like the idea of that AT aircraft, as I like the idea of a new aircraft anyway. THe biggest problem however, is in finding a role for the new aircraft. The problem is that whatever role you choose for an aircraft, it will present some difficulties.

For example, an AA aircraft designed to engage other aircraft (with lock on missiles for example) would be very overpowering for every other aircraft currently out there, who have enough to deal with from AA MAxes, Strikers, Skyguards etc etc.

With an AV aircraft, while it would prbably balance againt the MBTs, what of all the smaller vehicles in the game? They would just not be going anywhere because of these flying tank busters.

Finally, with all the complaints of Reaver rocket spam, I don;t think an AI aircraft is in order.

The only real plausable new aircraft designs are support aircraft, however we already have these being implemented with the likes of the Phantasm and already in game with things like the Lodestar and the Galaxy. Any further form of support aircraft might be overpowering (such as a flying AMS).

Perhaps a plane that can destroy Flails in one hit would be a good design idea :D

[7ruth]

It's more of a flying Lancer/pulsar lol

[NutzholzWolf]

How about this:

Trident: Ancient Tech
Type: Interceptor
Role: Anti-Air, Anti-Infantry
Primary Weapon: 2 Maelstrom type guns permanently set in Vortex Whip mode
Secondary Weapon: 1 Maelstrom type gun permanently set in Chain-Lash grenade mode
Occupants: 1
Speed: 125 KPH, 100 (when secondary weapon is activated)
Handling: good, medium (when secondary weapon is active)
Certifications Needed: Air Cavalry Cert is a prerequisite, and AT Flight Cert which requires 10 base caps, like for the BFR’s, but they only count for either the AT Flight Cert or the BFR Cert, not both.


Idea behind the weapon changes is to make it require close proximity (200m or less) to the air target before it can strike. The secondary fire is more to cause the infantry some damage and fear more than actually kill. The Chain-Lash Bomb will lash out to the radius of 50m with rapid degradation from the center (5% to 30% armor damage and 1% to 10% health depending on distance from center) The re-fire rate of the Chain-Lash Bomb would be about 1 shot per second. This is so an area can’t be bombed like a Liberator but it can cause a disruption in the enemy advance.




Your opinion?

[Redford Blade]

Not too bad, but the chain-lash grenades create a problem very much like that of Reaver-spamming. Decrease the refire rate by about a second or two.

Otherwise, it looks very good.

[Earlydawn]

Very nice. Could you make the words a little bigger on future illustrations? It can sometimes be hard to read the small print.

[NutzholzWolf]

That picture was drawn on a full size paper than srunk to make the file smaller, but I will write larger next time.

I was thinking about having the chain-lash grenades be revers degredation, as in the farther you are the better, but maybe a 200m or less limit. A 2 to 3 second firing time wouldn't be too bad.

[evregade]

Orbiter- Aerial Transport/ Bomber (aircraft)
Speed- 80kph
Weapons- Underbelly Dispertion Cannon
Capacity- Pilot (is gunner) 6 passengers.
Special- The dispertion cannon has been attached to this vehicle for anti-ground protection, however, it fires straight down, and has a 15 second delay between shots.
(picture to be added)

Taken from an old topic i made, that was my idea for an AT air vehicle. It acts like a passenger ship, but can moonlight as a bomber.

[NutzholzWolf]

Interesting idea. A transport that has a weapon that fires like the ones on the alien ships in "Independence Day" that clears an area so its passengers can drop in safety and begin the assualt.

An image comes to mind for that, a cockpit section surrounded by 6 rotating 'wing' pods where the passenger sit. The weapon would fire from each section into one point where there is a horizontal explosion clearing the area around it.

[piolet68654]

Man, I love that movie, Its a real "original" why not make a larger flying version of the router, replace teloport beam with a high energy pulse beam.

[NutzholzWolf]

If you saw a router flying then it would just look like a flying soucer, which is not the way the AT vehicels look in general. They look more moduler.

How about this, the individual 'wing' pods can be destroyed killing the passenger and weakening the weapon until there are only 2 pods left which renders it inactive. This would add a different aspect to the game.