The Lakara

[Banichi]

I'm building a league fleet, and the abbai contingant is 1 lakara, 1 bimith, 2 milani, 2 point battle. I was a bit suprized at how different the lakara looked from the other ships, which are very marine looking. Is this explained in fluff somewhere, (eg, after the dilgar war the abbai ........) or was it just sculpted by a different mini designer.

 

[Ripple]

Think it was done by a different mini guy. Back in the B5Wars days we all commented when this horror came out how bad it looked. They never gave an explination.

Ripple

 

[Twin-Linked Aldades]

Well, maybe the sculptors for future vesels could take a peek at Voltayre`s Encyclopedia Xenobiologica (http://infinicorp.com/VEX/aliens/abbai.htm) which has some nice sketches for spaceships, like the `abbai gunship`

 

[captainsmirk]

Ah the old Sierra flight sim design...

There were a number of designs for ships produced for that game. Always liked the Abbai one, although that specific design is a bit too flimsy to be a Lakara.

The Mongoose Hurr Gunship is the design from the Sierra game. However all I can say is that I'm glad they took the AoG Dilgar designs rather than the Sierra one...


Nick

 

[Locutus9956]

I always felt that it kind of worked to have the Abbai ships look fragile and be reliant on high tech (shields) or their resilience.

 

[Da Boss]

I thought it looked like a Brakiri and Vree ship have been "having fun"

 

[Lord David the Denied]

It does a bit, but it's very Abbai as well...

 

[Romu]

Yeah i like i too, it's a hundred times better then what we have now.

They have a nice design for a pakmara ship aswell on that website

 

[Banichi]

Think it was done by a different mini guy. Back in the B5Wars days we all commented when this horror came out how bad it looked. They never gave an explination.

It's a shame they didn't make him do it again, after actually having a look at the rest of the abbai minis. I am counting on the paint scheme to tie it in with my other abbai ships.

 

[Ripple]

I have one, and decided not to buy any others. I will find something more in line, maybe even scratch built something to come closer. I do like the design above.

One element in particular really doesn't fit at all, the exposed laser mounts on the front. We see literally no weapons on any other Abbai design. The engine pods and the 'bridge wing' over the top are kinda strange as well....but the weapon one was just hard to swallow given we had other ships with the combat laser that clearly didn't have a mount showing.

Wish they would put out stats for the Aldrith...(think that's it)...design. Essentially the Bimith was originally the Lakara in an earlier fleet, a laser core ship, that was retired and then un- moth balled and refitted for fleet defense duty.

Ripple

 

[Banichi]

It's the harshness of the angles when compared with something like the milani or bimith, which have quite flowing lines. The lakara is all right angles and boxiness.

Essentially the Bimith was originally the Lakara in an earlier fleet, a laser core ship,

I think in Richard Baxe's "First to Fall" book, about the start of the Dilgar war, there are stats for the aldrith.

 

[Voronesh]

Well i also think that the Lakara doesnt fit in with the rest of the Abbai fleet, in any way at all.....

And yes the boxiness is just way too EA for the Abbai.....

 

[Romu]

Indeed, i think i'll use mine to proxy it for another ship in another fleet where it might look more at home.

For another design i don't like for exemple

 

[Da Boss]

I like the Lakara, the small jammer figate and the Milani but not the others