Our representation of Halo's iconic space combat in the Homeworld 2 engine, which puts the player in command of some of the most powerful weapons fielded by the UNSC and Covenant and to provide a balanced and competitive experience.
Just to demonstrate the similarities and differences in design.
The Orthrus is 1.5x bigger than the frigate and has the same 2 meter thick titanium armour as the Thanatos, with considerable extra cladding in places.
Armed with two MACs, 24 over sized archer pods and numerous regular sized pods. Like other destroyers, the Orthrus has no fighter craft, and relatively (% of the ship, not actual size) less space compared to a frigate devoted to pelicans and marine ground forces, but still hoasts a sizable ammount due to it's over all larger size, including drop bays housed under the lower arms and a traditional hangar further back.
Nice!
Wow! She looks like one hell of a heavy hitter, fantastic work guys!
nice work btw have you got a texturer yet
Nope.
shame all of these models look really good
What is the purpose of the big block added between the left and right engines?
Reactor room maybe? i mean those are some bigass engines them may draw alot of power.
Yeah. The reactor and general engineering.
Outstanding :)
Don't forget the two Point Defense cannons on the backside of the Frigate.
Where are they? I never noticed them
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You can clearly see the one on top, the one on bottom is just barely visible between the starboard engine nacelle and the loading bay on the bottom.
Each Frigate has 12 point defense cannons and 40 archer pods. Bungie is pretty consistant with these numbers because I counted 40 pods when I did my run through of Long Night of Solace. There's 5 PD cannons on each side of the Frigate and 2 in the back (one on top, one on bottom).
I wish I knew what the orange triangles were next to the Archer pods, though.
Ah ok. I never saw them while i was on the anchor 9 bit of longnight of solace.
The orange triangles are a mystery yeah. I always thought those were the archers tbh, as they were on the origal concept, and in Halo 3 the other pods didn't really look very missile poddy.
I would like to say they're turning jets or heat sinks, but there's quite clearly vents that are different, and they're in a bit of a poor position to be turning jets. Might be an ejection system for heat sinks still, but i'd imagine them to be close to the engines.
If they are heatsinks, it would make sense because the only time I ever see them on the Frigates is around the MAC gun. But then they have them near the bridge and on the lower arm, etc. Could be escape pods, but I doubt it.
Actually thinking about it, the other pods don't quite work as Archers either. The wiki page is wrong in claiming Archers are nuclear, there's no citation and that conclusion seems to be from concluding the pods with the little nuclear symbols are the archers.
Neither seem to be right for archer pods, and then there's the large circular "drums" on the arms.
I'll take a closer look at the triangles when i bring my xbox back up here, something about them strikes me to be what the artist originally intended to be the missile bays, and personally prefer the look, but they don't quite fit the bill of "pods".
Yeah not too sure on the Nuclear symbol on the pod. I counted 8 groups of pods on the Frigate, and each group has 5 pods, equalling the canon 40 Archer pods per Frigate so I'm assuming that's the Archers because there aren't 40 triangles on the Frigate.
Those triangles may indeed be heatsink ejection systems, but instead of the engines, they may be for the magnetic coils used in the main gun. That would be the only other purpose I could think of other than (unlikely) empty and typically unused shiva tubes. Or they may just be the in-game artist's way of spicing the ship up to make it look more realistic and they really don't have a purpose.
I'm fairly sure those triangular pods are 3-man escape pods actually
Hoo boy that is a nice ship. I like the idea of two frigates put together to get the destroyer, my original vision of a destroyer was never as cool as this.
Nice model, you guys said it was in long night of solace, if so, where???
We were talking about the frigate, which this is based off.