Forth any one interested?
- Thread starter lt.harper
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emperorpenguin
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Hiromoon said:
well no the fluff fits the name, noth the other way round....
they didn't say "they were discovered on planet forth *brainwave* let's name them forth!". They named them forth THEN came up with a reason why.
Mage said:
I'd say it may be so they don't dilute interest in The Transformers? Sometimes there are exclusivity agreements with certain ideas or products. Maybe someone agreed for Sony not to have anything to do with mecha other than Transformers, or something akin to that. OR they just didn't like it.
emperorpenguin
Mongoose
Hiromoon said:
no Heinlein came up with that :wink:
emperorpenguin
Mongoose
Poi said:7 pages of argument about a name?
WTF?
If it was arguments about the models, I could understand (bland, clean boxy), but just the name. SEVEN PAGES!
and believe it or not, not everyone agrees with your priorities. Sometimes I see arguments over models that strike me as silly, but hey don't let it stop you complaining about other people voicing their opinions, we all know it would be so difficult to just not read the thread if you don't like it! :roll:
emperorpenguin
Mongoose
lt.harper said:
yep because I said
and a few small minded posters decided I'm not allowed an opinion, instead of skipping past it......
emperorpenguin
Mongoose
I just find it hugely ironic that had the guys who say "it's only a name" not kept saying that this would have never arisen, my comment would have slipped quietly by......
What might be interesting to see is a Forth unit with a central "manned" unit that has a number of smaller slaved battle-satellites (bat-sats) that hover around the core unit as support. They would be sort of like pawns on a chess board absorbing the attacks first. They could call it a Forth "Ensemble" unit. :wink:
I'm thinking that they might be ground units, but would look good as a gaggle of hovering, terribly beweaponed orbs. :twisted:
I'm thinking that they might be ground units, but would look good as a gaggle of hovering, terribly beweaponed orbs. :twisted:
BuShips said:
Um, I thought those were called the Fenirs (for the central unit) and Fenos (for the slaved battle-bots). Sure, the Fenos doesn't hover, but everything else seems to be there. Or did I miss something again?
In any case, I'm sure they would just be called the "Tau rip-off brigade", since everyone knows that GW was the first to come up with the slaved battle-satellites idea... :roll:
Xorrandor said:
OK, it would seem that I read (and forgot) that aspect and it was leaking back from my subconsious, heh. I would still like to see a slave design that would fly/hover.
As far as GW coming up with the idea first, I'm not so sure. It has been a repeating theme in sci-fi for many years. In Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series he had scout robots (Frog Star?) hunting for the characters. When the more military models appeared (sent by the scouts), poor Marvin was sent to deal with them.
Back in the early 80's I was at a convention where I played in a 64 player Traveller RPG adventure where we were merc teams assaulting a computer-controlled city. The main AI at the city center was sending out scout model and battle model hovering orbs as hunter/killers. We figured out (almost too late) to use the sewer network and approach the city core in a much less threatened way. :wink:
