GDI, Nod, the Forgotten or CABAL. Who will triumph the endless war? This mod plays after the storyline of Firestorm. Command new units, conquer harder enemies. Will you save Earth or will you destroy it? It's your choice...
Forgotten Aircraft
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How did the forgotten manage to get working jets? Or even trained aviators and a working airfield
The Forgotten in CD are masterful scavengers and raiders. There is a lot of junk or old tech which is abandoned by GDI or Nod.
Ofc it depends on the preferences of each Warlord leader, on what kind of units they yield in battle.
The Striker which is shown here, is a very fast aircraft, armed with multi purpose missiles and a gattling gun. In dogfights it can outspeed Orcas by far, but its rate of turn is not the best - makeing it vulnerable against air superiority fighters like the Firehawk, Hornet, Banshee or Wyvern.
Maybe give their stuff an older look to it. If theyre scavaging weapons i dont think they should look very new
Just a thought, otherwise I like how you got it
We've been making some updates on a lot of the unit graphic skins- I've been personally editing a buttload of them and making em all pimped out, so you'll be pleasantly surprised soon enough.
They find old early 21st century and late 20th century jets in abandoned military bases, and they get their engineers, mechanics and other stuff to make airstrips and do repairs to the planes. It'll all be proper junky and jury rigged, dontcha worry. Not to mention that this Striker unit is a LATE tier unit- tier 4, tier 5 being the highest in our mod. This will be a choice between this and a Breeding Pit for Tiberium beasts that the Forgotten use, as per rule of thumb the Forgotten customize everything and no one warlord is alike another.
As for pilots- there is always that daring guy or some renegade, ex soldier who'll volunteer. I imagine there could be some ex Nod or GDI pilot or old State Army pilot from one of the old nations who, after being left for dead by his old faction or being a forgotten soldier would like to ride the clouds again and rip down enemy aircraft in dogfights for good paying warlord that can provide the essential tools for him.
Looks similary to Mirage III series. But could you give them look like SU-27. It would made them look totaly badass :D
This aircraft is actually based off of the Avro Arrow mk.2, which is a far more interesting design :D
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(Plus im Canadian, its patriotic **** points and it could make sense that the Forgotten could pilfer jets in more colder nations that didn't experience total tiberium growth but didn't last politically either. I imagine the jets aren't all the same type either lorewise.)
Ok, but if most Forgotten equipment is like scavenged, Avro A was never made. So it's unknow aircraft. I suppose you could put it in TD-TS timeline like it was made and used. I proposed RU SU-27, mostly because RU aircraft are more common, even for spare parts. Or you could make CF-18 Hornet, that's also a sexy looking aircraft
Or how about just doing whatever Astor comes up with? I personally don't really see a point of bringing up RL designs in a Tiberian Sun/RA2 mod - they are just that ****** up lorewise to care about RL stuff.
The reason why we went with the Avro over the SU (the SU was considered) is because no other mod or project has utilized such an aircraft, its interesting and we can just state that in the timeline of TS that it was made at some point. Were talking about wars happening in the 2040's and beyond here in an alternate timeline as it is so there's bound to be a lot of things up to assumption here. The early 21st century is considered outdated by this point for instance. Also, the Avro Arrow project in real life is getting rebooted. So it will be made soon enough :P
If you want it to be more lore friendly, Red Alert is still part of the Tiberium universe. Considering how advanced that plane was and with communists invading Europe, it could've been mass produced to counter their Migs.
Red Alert lore is already messy as it is, with Abrams Tanks - the Medium Tank is clearly an Abrams - running in 1950s and that's just only one example. Again, everything can be thrown in.