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Soon there will be a painted Drazi / Shadow tech Ship, painted and photo taken so please be pataint.
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Da Boss said:Ahh I do look forward to her.
Ripple did mention he was doing one as well which would be cool to see
Ripple is doing a conversion of the Bimith hull for a new Lakara too. I think it might look pretty cool. He doesn't like the snow speeder look on the Lakara
Dave
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striped the UC off, cleand off the flash (hes gonna save the lot of us) greenstuffed the wings, as soon as that is dry going to pin 4 shadow spines.
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im gonna name her the Duskhawk been looking in myy shipbuilders manual
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DuskHawk is done just need to photo it and hardcoat.
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Charles's one the bottom spine kept falling out even after pinning so i just redesigned it.
I found myself going with a strikehawk as the base mini instead of a sunhawk. Seemed better armored and I could see them using the Sky Serpent as a ejectable observation platform. But now I want it to have a fighter....=/.
The weapon suite also tripped me up, because I couldn't decide whether I should keep the small barrels around the nose. The four big barrels firing twice made a nice image, but I couldn't figure out what they were doing.
On a regular sunhawk/warbird where is the laser coming from vs the twin linked weapons? Is it the chin mounted barrel? Not sure but that's what I remember...
My house mate just gave me the series box set for Xmas....so maybe I can check now.... she's great to me.
Ripple
The weapon suite also tripped me up, because I couldn't decide whether I should keep the small barrels around the nose. The four big barrels firing twice made a nice image, but I couldn't figure out what they were doing.
On a regular sunhawk/warbird where is the laser coming from vs the twin linked weapons? Is it the chin mounted barrel? Not sure but that's what I remember...
My house mate just gave me the series box set for Xmas....so maybe I can check now.... she's great to me.
Ripple
Ripple said:
Although the prototype does not have fighters - the Dusk Hawk has two.
Nothing is set in stone - although I do like the stats - what were you thinking - maybe when I do the update there will be a third Duskhawk or the EA / Drazi talks will bear fruitition enough to allow proper production of Shadowtech vessels?
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Want me to do the background on her?
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stuff in the ship builders book
Sounds fun, is that rpg? Vaguely toying with making some of the Darkness Rising stuff/people for the RPG but don't really have the background knowledge at present.................
ideas still forming in the mailstrom:
Finishing timeline and adding more stuff, fluff and tyding up errors.........(eps re the major characters)
been given the idea of a Dilgar "lost tribe" / Battlestar Galatica ripoff thread to the universe
some smaller scale stuff maybe to do with Lady Aria and her campaign for vengeance....................
A Battle Beyond the Stars style mini campaign in the Dilgar war period with a group of various mercs (Human (weapons dealer), Narn (bitter captain, Minbari (elite Female fighter pilot), Centuari - (dispossed and hunted nobleman) protecting a out of the way planet from a Dilgar fleet.
ideas still forming in the mailstrom:
Finishing timeline and adding more stuff, fluff and tyding up errors.........(eps re the major characters)
been given the idea of a Dilgar "lost tribe" / Battlestar Galatica ripoff thread to the universe
some smaller scale stuff maybe to do with Lady Aria and her campaign for vengeance....................
A Battle Beyond the Stars style mini campaign in the Dilgar war period with a group of various mercs (Human (weapons dealer), Narn (bitter captain, Minbari (elite Female fighter pilot), Centuari - (dispossed and hunted nobleman) protecting a out of the way planet from a Dilgar fleet.
OMG.... Battle Beyond the Stars.... so so bad.... but yet, so memorable....
As to what I was thinking for the stats... literally looking at stapling on a fighter and maybe a second weapon line. Certainly a third variant, rather than a re-write. I looked at the proto type and it seems to be a built up sunhawk... maybe they did a production model once the duskhawk was shown to be a success (as opposed to the prototype).
Going with Drazi thought patterns it would be a small attack ship rather than the 'flagship' style Duskhawk.
I kind of see the Duskhawk as based on the Stormfalcon frame. (wish we'd called it a Shadowfalcon....but eh....that's just me...=p).
This would be smaller...
Traits would include the fighter, stealth (minor?) shield and dodge.
hhmmm... sky serpent, stealth 4+(3+ but I hate that number), shield 3/2 dodge 5+(4+ with lower stealth) Damage 18/4 Crew 20/5
Weapons, the figures seem to have three sets potentially...the small barrels that used to be the anti-fighter, the big barrels that I think are the TL and the nose cone/chin mount? that seems to be the beam in the show.
so...
Range 18 2 AD Beam (DD Precise) or TD boresight
Range 12 4 AD AP DD Accurate TL boresight
Range 4 2 AD Minibeam, DD, Accurate front
Long beam is the Drazi beam enhanced by shadow tech, but still line up on target.... the 12 inch gun is the big barrels again limited in arc, but damageing... and the short guns shooting so fast that they go beyond twin linked ap into mini-beam, so close range that the slight slewing of the ship is enough to spray the area effectively.
So a raid level strikehawk with shadow tech... the issue is that the TL doesn't work well with the required SAs. Kind of whitestar ish but harder to use due to arc. If dropping the TL so that the SA's work I'd add a couple of dice.
One big concept is to have the three level of fire roughly one move apart. Keeps the ships a strong strafing run type attacker.
I could easily be wrong on the numbers as it's off the top of my head. Right now if feels a tad big depending on if it gets the 90s for movement or the 45's. I almost want to change the SAs to having to target the previously targeted ship. A bloodlust grudge rather than a 'lead foot killer'.
eh... babbling...
Ripple
As to what I was thinking for the stats... literally looking at stapling on a fighter and maybe a second weapon line. Certainly a third variant, rather than a re-write. I looked at the proto type and it seems to be a built up sunhawk... maybe they did a production model once the duskhawk was shown to be a success (as opposed to the prototype).
Going with Drazi thought patterns it would be a small attack ship rather than the 'flagship' style Duskhawk.
I kind of see the Duskhawk as based on the Stormfalcon frame. (wish we'd called it a Shadowfalcon....but eh....that's just me...=p).
This would be smaller...
Traits would include the fighter, stealth (minor?) shield and dodge.
hhmmm... sky serpent, stealth 4+(3+ but I hate that number), shield 3/2 dodge 5+(4+ with lower stealth) Damage 18/4 Crew 20/5
Weapons, the figures seem to have three sets potentially...the small barrels that used to be the anti-fighter, the big barrels that I think are the TL and the nose cone/chin mount? that seems to be the beam in the show.
so...
Range 18 2 AD Beam (DD Precise) or TD boresight
Range 12 4 AD AP DD Accurate TL boresight
Range 4 2 AD Minibeam, DD, Accurate front
Long beam is the Drazi beam enhanced by shadow tech, but still line up on target.... the 12 inch gun is the big barrels again limited in arc, but damageing... and the short guns shooting so fast that they go beyond twin linked ap into mini-beam, so close range that the slight slewing of the ship is enough to spray the area effectively.
So a raid level strikehawk with shadow tech... the issue is that the TL doesn't work well with the required SAs. Kind of whitestar ish but harder to use due to arc. If dropping the TL so that the SA's work I'd add a couple of dice.
One big concept is to have the three level of fire roughly one move apart. Keeps the ships a strong strafing run type attacker.
I could easily be wrong on the numbers as it's off the top of my head. Right now if feels a tad big depending on if it gets the 90s for movement or the 45's. I almost want to change the SAs to having to target the previously targeted ship. A bloodlust grudge rather than a 'lead foot killer'.
eh... babbling...
Ripple
not babling - but rather inspiring
Hmm yeah I see where you are going - maybe a another few years into the future of my universe as the Drazi take advantge of the opportunities to be found..................... and so it continues
will go to work on it (though you have done much of it )
RE Battle Beyond the Stars - Ah I still like it :shock:
Hmm yeah I see where you are going - maybe a another few years into the future of my universe as the Drazi take advantge of the opportunities to be found..................... and so it continues
will go to work on it (though you have done much of it
)RE Battle Beyond the Stars - Ah I still like it :shock:
