Long ago, when the word 'Hiigara' rang only as a hollow dream, the kiith of Kharak never imagined they would walk the Path to Victory. But, when they reclaimed their Homeworld and proclaimed themselves 'Hiigaran', they believed they had reached their goal. How wrong they were. 150 years after Hiigaran landfall, conflict rages across the Galaxy... Path to Victory is a multiplayer and skirmish mod for Homeworld 2 that adds new units to both Vaygr and Hiigaran Races as well as enabling the Keepers, Raiders and Kadeshi as playable races.
This is the first of several pods the Kadeshi will recieve as part of their Corvette Force.
The Gun Pod is an anti-fighter and anti-corvette weapon which comes with considerable armor but only in small numbers. Its task is supporting swarmers with a deadly hail of kinetic splinter rounds which can cut fighters to shredds and heavily damage corvettes.
The Gun Pod is a ship build entirely around its main weapon with only minimal effort given to propulsion. Thus, it is relatively slow for a corvette class ship but makes up by way of the forward turret which is capable of traking even quickly moving targets. Add the rapid fire rate of the splinter cannon and you get a great defense against fighters.
yo, this looks like what the kadesh would have as a corvette to the highest degree of detail. Bravo man
Woah! That's more like it. Totally out the left field, but I think it fits very well. I like the ball turret, it seems to be the most kedesh-like turret style I've seen so far. I see you even have the individual barrels recoiling, which is a very nice feature. My only suggestion would be to extrude the armoring around the top of the engines to harken to the upper engine armoring of the swarmers. Still, I like the pod much more than the needle.
**** yeah! And since the Kadesh are swarmers im hoping your gonna increase their Ship caps so i can shard the **** out of some vaygar!
Ship caps will be higher than vaygr for fighters and corvettes. Frigates will be the same and cap ships lower. The Kadesh focus mostly on smaller ships in my mind. Of course, a lot of balancing has to be done but that will have to wait a moment.
@ Hell: You're probably right about the armor. It would also make the side profile a little more interesting.
Definitely kewl!
Me likey!
A Ball Turret is great, but the angles of fire for it seem minimal, maybe you should go with a cowling around the Ball with something similar to a L shape but curvy, that way you can have the whole cowling rotate on the Swarmer chassis and the Ball would only need to face forwards and to one side, the cowling thate rotates then letting the Balls more restricted motion cover a whole half hemisphere in aiming and firing.