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I know many of us have probably read books in the Honor Harrington series...

Has anyone started on any mod or models for this universe of space combat....?

Kana

I believe Phoenix-D had started work on a HH mod some time ago.

As a side note, said mod should never be mentioned to DW, as he would most probably then have to take legal action. He's serious about stuff like that; no fan fiction is allowed in his forum, nor does he read it. Stems from a case where a writer lost control of his works due to fan-fiction.

Or just that seeing any fan fiction reminds him of how easy it is to knock out a HH plot:

Take a charcter who's never wrong, surround with senior officers/politicans who are wrong. Chuck in evil/incompetent/stupid liberals and a superior sized enemy. Leave to boil and then finish off with a large bloody space battles where random bridge officers die like flies and Honor wins just before the re-inforcements arrive.

Nothing wrong with that, I've found them well written and very readable. Tad predictable though.

Thank you...

It just seems that this style of combat, and other such science and background would fit well to a mod for SEIV or SEV....Yet another on my list...really enjoying the books right now...have hunted down a few websites with various info for background and such...

Kana

The Baen forums have tons of info. Also, www.thefifthimperium.com.

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Kana said:
Thank you...

It just seems that this style of combat, and other such science and background would fit well to a mod for SEIV or SEV
Kana

Well, I can't comment on SE5, but it actually isn't well suited to se4 at all:
1- You can't mod missile pods or LACs properly, because units can't fire seekers in se4.
2- Although Honorverse does have some warp-point like objects in it, they rely heavily on "directional" FTL. Impossible in se4.
3- Due to the impeller wedge, Honorverse combat is all about firing angles and facings. Guess what: se4 don't do that.

Of course you can gloss over these restrictions and mod it anyway, but I don't think the end product will "feel" very Honorversey. It will just be basic se4 with the techs tweaked to give a different seeker/ beam/ fighter balance.
That said, it will probably come out closer to the Honorverse than Trek/SW mods are to their respective canons, so ignore me and do it anyway.

BTW, a forum search should yield at least one big long thread on this very subject.

Units can most certainly fire seekers in SE4.

Ahhh, satellites 7 wep plats, of course.

Not fighters and drones though, surely.