Darkness Rising Update v2
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kitsune106
Mongoose
yeah. that woudl be nice. although, what would a raider group do with a captured space liner? turn it into an assualt liner? that is, use it to launch breachign pods and carry vast loads of troops, or use it to crry away captured cargo?
kitsune106
Mongoose
maybe we also need a missile frieghter? swap[ potu the cargo pods for long range basic rockets or missiles.....
was thinking of some kind of special missile variant. IR engine stoippers for raiders. one of their problems is getting the ships to slow down so they can board them without using breaching pods. not so sure how to do such missiles, but somethign like reducing the speed or something for a turn or two, only on civliian ships or such.....
was thinking of some kind of special missile variant. IR engine stoippers for raiders. one of their problems is getting the ships to slow down so they can board them without using breaching pods. not so sure how to do such missiles, but somethign like reducing the speed or something for a turn or two, only on civliian ships or such.....
l33tpenguin
Mongoose
kitsune106 said:
Creating a 'rocket transport' would be a good implimentation of 'boresight missiles', i.e. rockets, and considering the low tech required, would work perfect for the raiders.
heat seeking or IR missiles would be a fun 'low tech' weapon too. Forward arc, but can only be fired if the attacking ship is in the aft arc of the target ship. These missiles could SP, have low AD, but only cause engine crits.
The liner is the basis of the skirmish level carrier according to the old fluff.
The abbai did have a 'raider' fleet in operation for plausible deniability purposes at one point as well. I always like that version. We played some scenarios where the abbai arrived several turns into the game and the raiders had to flee (only go vps for their own ships off the table at that point) and had the raider and abbai player add up vps as one force. (the freighters were worth points to who ever ended the game closest to one.)
Not sure it was balance as such... but fun. Centauri player had to get points off the raiders before they got away then run back and snuggle up to the freighter before the abbai ships did.
Ripple
The abbai did have a 'raider' fleet in operation for plausible deniability purposes at one point as well. I always like that version. We played some scenarios where the abbai arrived several turns into the game and the raiders had to flee (only go vps for their own ships off the table at that point) and had the raider and abbai player add up vps as one force. (the freighters were worth points to who ever ended the game closest to one.)
Not sure it was balance as such... but fun. Centauri player had to get points off the raiders before they got away then run back and snuggle up to the freighter before the abbai ships did.
Ripple
kitsune106
Mongoose
and sure, a RAider's thred sounds cool. who woudl like to start it?
Twin-Linked Aldades
Mongoose
Really liked the mod so far, and started building a few vessels for my Combined League.
Mind you, I`m about all thumbs on scratchbuilding and converting though...
Dusk Hawk
speedy looking Hyperion based Blockade Runner
Mind you, I`m about all thumbs on scratchbuilding and converting though...
Dusk Hawk
speedy looking Hyperion based Blockade Runner
lastbesthope
Mongoose
I like the White Star Spoiler.
LBH
LBH
