[by colers] Ideas for Troops: Aircraft Thread - Tiberium Secrets mod for C&C3: Tiberium Wars

Here are my Aircraft ideas from the old topic. all comments appriciated.

1.
Name: Newton
role: medium slow flying VTOL
strong vs: harrasing ground troops and devestating aircraft and buildings
weapon: gravitation control cannon ( a special cannon that can massivly increase the gravity in a area. it connects instantaniously, showing a link like the mastermind mind control, only directly instead of in an arc. the cannon pushes aircraft into the ground and crushes buildings, but only slows down tanks and infantry. has a short range, making it a easy target for firehawks and stormriders, as it is also too slow to close distance quickly)

story: this aircraft, nicknamed sir newton by GDI soldiers, is a result of ASIM getting himself into the database of a gravity stabilizer of the scrin. it increases the gravity, which will only give pain to infantry and stuck the tires of tanks, but will push aircraft into a fall and makes the ceilings and roofs in buildings collapse. can be dealt with if you have AA, but are a great thread in numbers and can destroy aircraft near instantly, though scrin ships are more resistant against it due they use the tech themselves. just keep them away from you with AA. a nice way to use these is as air barricades, circling key positions to destroy any aerial threat.

looks: think of a ufo, and be inventive with it.

2.
Name: Sky drifter
type: light-medium aircraft
strong vs: infantry, tanks
weapon: pulse laser array (fires 4 pulse beams in rapid succesion, doing average damage to tanks and takes out squad members out of squads with each shot ( most effective when dealing with snipers and rockets)

story: when first sighed destroying a tank division, the report of a witness said:"at first image you would think they were a variation of the Stormrider, but it shot through the sky even faster and seemed to turn as if it was going at barely a mile/hour, drifting through the sky and unleasing a energy beam barrage". after this the GDI InOps named the aircraft a Sky drifter. it is mounted with both jets and VTOL engines. the Vtol engines are not made for hover, but for direct take of and used as a brake in the air, heavily increasing its turn speed. it is ineffective againts buildings due the low caliber of the pulse laser, and cant fire at aircraft at all. the laser destroys engines and pops soldiers. even a stealth tank can lose from a drifter.

Abilities: EM overdrive (by destabilising the energy core of the drifter, it will turn into a EMP bomb , sacrificing the drifter to give oncoming ground troops a edge and take down AA for friendly aircraft. the drifter dies instantly, dropping a blue orb to the ground, which pops on impact.)

looks: a longer version of a storm rider, with a gun on its nose, other colours, a wide jet engine in the 2 wings, and a couple of round lights at the bottom which houses the vtol engines

(srry, paint handels resizing like crap , will definitly post a better one that shows more)

Ability related to skydrifters:

Name: Grassmower
What: sends in multiple skydrifter to fire out their 4 shots, taking down most troops in the area.
cost: 2000

The Drifter stood out, especially the sacrifice as emp bomb abbilaty.
Sounds like this aircraft is very powerful, and may not need to return to reload.
How would you conceptually balance this?

1: price

2: will die if meets base defences (well, at least quickly)

3: does not like stormriders, firehawk and venoms.

Deviantart.com

how about something like this???

no, it is more blackhawk shaped.

All three ideas will be archived for future reference. And I'll go over them again after sleep.

Though colers, might you have that better picture?