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Well, i study 3d modelling and animation at the university of Derby, have spent the past 4 years modding and the majority of my life playing games.
ISF Vanguard
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Concept for a destroyer style ship. The reactor sit somewhere in the centre, with 4 vents running forward and 6 running back, as well as two independantly supplied auxillaries on either side of the ship.
This thing just says "Get out of my way"
and do i see a slight resemblence to the kol battleship from sins of a solar empire ?
Thanks, that's pretty much the role i was going for with it, loads of armour and frontal weaponry.
I semi see the resemblance, i think it's the "open" sides. Though on this they're devoid of armour because there's vent tunnels leading from the reactor down the sides of the ship allowing it a large ammount of dexterity. The little slats along the tunnels can also open to divert variable ammounts of thrust in other directions.
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I refined the front anyway as i wan't all that happy with the lack of real definition there, it's a bit clearer that there's some sort of docking bay there now. Fc06.deviantart.net
Since i forgot to ask last time il ask now , what's its armament and is the mac under that 3 barreled turret ? or does it have enough turrets (i think im seeing about 15 turrets there?) and missle pods to fill in the gap of the missing mac ? (This is a UNSC ship right ?[sry for the many questions lol human curiosity i guess])
And keep up the awesome work on the mod :D
Oh, no i forgot to say, these are just for fun/practise, they're not HHF related. That's why they have very different designs and colour schemes, and say ISF on the side (international space force or something, i guess.)
The armament is something like 14x double barreled cannons (a few on the underside), 4 or 5 rapid-fire small turrets for defence against fighters, the two heavy double barreled cannons on the front and the even heavier triple barreled one. The hull is dotted with laser defenses (something that was more of an afterthought, but you can see a couple near the front above the double barreled cannon) which serve as defence against missiles and particularly small fighters.
The top along the front has tube openings for guided torpedos, and the missile pods on the front below the bridge and above the cannons are tubes lines with linear accelerators, that can basically fire anything from missiles to tungsten shells. So it's a large missile launcher mixed with a forward-firing cannon battery. The larger opening right at the front of the ship is also lined with linear accelerators, and is used for both utility and as a weapon - It's the major docking point on the ship, connecting to a large reinforced bay, so can be used for docking shuttles and smaller strike craft or probes, or simply ferrying supplies, but the tunnel leading from the opening to the bay is also lined with linear accelerators, making the tunnel a large mass driver basically. This can help in deploying small craft rapidly, launching probes, or be weaponised by simply placing ordinance (Probably nuclear warheads or large tungsten penetrators) inside the tunnel and mounting them onto some form of sabot.