Re: The Terrans
 

Why, the brave souls stuck in the engineering section. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif
It's all about survivability. You design a ship to give the crew the best chance of survival, but when the s*** hits the fan, people are gonna die no matter what you do.

Re: The Terrans
 

Righto, well after a very long time, the Battle Cruiser is now more or less done. I've got a few things to do like stick armour plating around the engines and stick the guns on the thing, but the concept is pretty much there.


http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...tleCruiser.jpg

Re: The Terrans
 

One Q... a while back, you mentioned the Terran-Tauran War. Would those Taurans perhaps resemble the Liberation Day Taurans?

(LibDay is an old strategy game. It's still fun.)

Re: The Terrans
 

Actually, the name Tauran in the context of the Galaxy of Fire was snicked from Joe Haldeman's Forever War. Although the GoF Taurens shared only their name with those Joe came up with. Battle Cruiser is done now, so here she is. Since the design is quite different to the other Terran ships, I've stuck a Terran Cruiser beside the BC to give a sense of scale.

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...tleCruiser.jpg

Re: The Terrans
 

Dude... that looks SO awesome. Please, I beg of you, finish it! Finish it that I may replace the awful (no offence) old Terrans with these beauties!

Re: The Terrans
 

I'm working on it, but I'm kinda stuck for ideas for what the Battleship & Dreadnought look like. I've got a good idea of what the Carriers will look like, ditto the transports. I've got two ideas in my head competing for what I'll do with the colony ship. Weapon's platforms are sketched and ready to go, sats & mines I'm not too sure what I'm doing.

I've got no idea what to do with the fighters, troops and bases, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Re: The Terrans
 

As for fighters: take a look at some pics for the TIE Advanced X1 fighters - Darth Vader's TIE Fighter - as they look a little like your (excellent) ships, but are clearly recognizable as fightercraft.

edit/add: And for bases, I think you could take some inspiration from 2001: Space Oddysey. The orbital Hilton Hotel (yes it's a Hilton hotel!) could look like something for your shipset.

Re: The Terrans
 

Strategia: Don't suppose you know of anywhere I could get a hold of a good orbital Hilton pic? As for the fighters, I took a marginal amount of inspiration from the TIEs and came up with this:

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...allFighter.jpg

Re: The Terrans
 

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif weeb..... it's too awesome!

Re: The Terrans
 

http://www.tescosamoa.com/Shipsets/h...rectorya-c.php

that's where I found the 2001 set through the Race Directory.