Starship Troopers Mobile Infantry

Listy · #1 August 6th, 2005, 01:52 PM

easy.
Just make them helo's. I've started on a starship troopers MOB for the DosMBT game and there's just enougth helo's to do it with.

The Big problem was modeling the Pee-wee. Even a HEK, Weapon size and warhead size of 255, won't do enougth damage.

I have a question, in one segment of hte book there is hte vauge implcation that the Maurder's carry some form of assualt rilfe or other long ranged weapon. Any Ideas on your part?

jvankessel · #2 August 7th, 2005, 10:39 AM

I wouldn't want to go the Helo way because the MI didn't fly around; they jumped around and were air dropped to their designated battle areas. Their movement would be like that of an APC.
Attached is a MobHack screen capture of how I solved it. The weapons are pulse laser rifles and HE/AP rockets. Not completely realistic, but it fits rather nicely in my Numenorean mod that I'm making.

I'll get back to you on the Marauder rifle. Somewhere on my harddrives I have an ebook version, which should be easy to search through for keywords.

Listy · #3 August 7th, 2005, 10:55 AM

It's on Planet P, when Rico is 3rd LT, jsut after the bugs break out.

The resaon why I picked helicopters is because MI use NOE, but can bounce high, and terrain doesn't affect them.

jvankessel · #4 August 7th, 2005, 12:01 PM

I just reread from when the bugs broke out until Rico was knocked unconscious and I only found references to hand flamers and bombs. The other weapons used were 'tanglefoot' incapacitating nerve gas.

MacGalin · #5 August 7th, 2005, 01:16 PM

Maybe you should try making Game Starship Trooper mod. In game , you had both Power Armored troopers from book, and standard infantry from the movie... And do you plan making the bugs mod?

scJazz · #6 August 8th, 2005, 03:33 PM

IIRC the Marauder suit was the standard suit used by all MI. The three types were scout, command, and marauder. Through most if not all of the book Rico wore a marauder suit. The scout suit sacrificed weapons and armor for improved speed and range. The command suit sacrificed weapons for better commo.

GoreChild · #7 August 8th, 2005, 10:51 PM

Command suit was twice as fast as a marauder, they made that pretty clear when they landed on P and Captain Blackstone(was it blackstone?) was running ahead to link up with the unit they were replacing.

I'm also really interested in adding power-armored infantry to this game, and, up until about 5 minutes ago, thought I was the only one with the idea.

Nice to see others that are more capable with the modding materials are thinking the same things.

BTW this was my first post.