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.
Presenting the new, modular Podship.
Haven't made the Hyperspace Inhibitor or Shield Generator subsystem yet but you'll get the idea.
This thing can build one of four subsystems and dock and build fighters and corvettes (building depends on the subsystem you choose). it will also be able to dock resource collectors.
What else is there to say? Well, it acts like a mini carrier on a frigate chassis. Great for supporting Kadesh Swarms but of no real direct combat value. Keep your podships safe. The support they offer can change the pace of any battle.
Hey, how big are those things? Since the once so called "Templar" is almost two times bigger than BC, your swarmers were corvette sized, this has to be very big.
The swarmers are scaled by a factor of 0.6 in this image. The corvettes are the the same (huge) size they were before. Size comparison is roughly 1.5 times the size of a ion cannon frigate.
I'll be posting ship size comparison images sometime soon to get rid of all the confusion.
Ok. When I think about it this size makes a very good sense if you want to fit corvettes in it. I like that it's basically a carrier/frigate hybrid, it's a nice idea.
well, the corvettes have been scaled down slightly too so it all looks and fits together better ;) Problem with the kadesh and size is I never compared them against any other fleet so all the ships are a little off.
As far I can remember, swarmers are about 2 times smaller then usuall interceptor.
Mhh dunno, right now they're the size of a regular interceptor +/- but I may make them smaller if I have to. Don't want to though as swarmers are really deadly little buggers.
Yeah, they've been exactly 2 times smaller: swarmer ir 8,5 meter long, but interceptor is about 17 meters long.
Look here: Homeworld.wikia.com
Hmm.... okay... ah... then... in 100 years, they start building larger swarmers because they now have unlimited fuel and need more space for the power cores?
:P well, dunno but I won't be making them smaller than other fighters. The same size probably..
i prefer the front of the old podship, but this looks great
They both have advantages and disadvantages. This one stays truer to the original fuel pod while adding new bits on to fit the new role. Overall, I like this one better to be honest (as a whole ship):
in my opinion, I like this one better than the old one. this one has more of a stationary feel to it (because of its small engine), and the overall design fits the idea of a dock bay underneath the ship. sooo at the the moment, the only thing that i can think of to make the ship look better, is to indent the black lines to make it look like it has a shell, but i think that might be too much work for such a small datail....
Good job :)
I'd love to do that but... yeah. Ugh, it takes forever. So... the chance I'll be doing it any time soon is fairly small. Still, i'd like to do it someday (maybe after all my other kadesh ships are done and I'm bored? Like that will ever happen...)
I can't really tell much of a difference between the swarmer and the podship module. I also liked the angularity of the first version more. You seemed to go from one extreme to the other regarding the back of the ship, but I think something in between might look better than either.
There is none I'm afraid - except the texture.
I think the no module version needs to have more negative space, otherwise it gives the feel of just wrapping a jacket around it as opposed to a module being swapped in or out, think of the ISSCV from Space Above and Beyond or Thunderbird 2 etc.