BTL-B2 "Y2-Wing" - WIP image - Knights of the Old Empire 2 - Unity mod for Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
Sequel to Knights of the Old Empire 1 - Awakening. Twenty years into the alternate future you see the Republic and Jedi in a time of change where Unity and Democracy are two different things. Family or Tradition are tested as many more youngling are given to the Knights for training and many padawan, jedi knights and even masters are leaving the Jedi for the Sith Knights. The Knight's have formed a federation of systems known as the United Systems that seeks galactic security and freedom. The republic is crumbling under the better life promised and given by the Sith Knights and the Unity. But that all is about to change with one unprovoked and dastardly attack on Revan City on Korriban.
A successor to the Y-Wing removing it's flaws while losing some benifits. The Y2 is much faster and a smaller target, however these are gained at the loss of heavy shielding but retains decent armor.
These will be modern bombers for the Republic used on more recent vessels where the BTL-B Y-Wing will only be used by the Venator along with the V-Wing.
Concept: Adamkop.deviantart.com
Nice!
May I recommend you raise the rear turret to make it fully rotatable since the 360 turret is one of the trademarks of the series?
Well this is a tail gun not a full turret. The Clone Wars era Y-Wing was very big and slow, thus needing the full turret and it also was a two-man bomber where one guy was in the turret bubble. The ANH-RoTJ Y-Wing was one-man and had to swap between the 4 fixed firing arcs which would be almost useless in a dogfight.
This one is small, fast, maneuverable, one-maned, It can even dogfight if absolutely needed. tail-gun is just that, A Tail-Gun.
Also in this version of Star Wars, the rebel Y-Wing modifications never happened so the Y-Wing design from TCW are the only ones that happened and this Y2-Wing is the evolution of that one, not the BTL-A4 from the movies.
This is to the BTL-B Y-Wing what the TIE Scimitar was to the TIE Bomber.