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 last ship to go into the 0.0.4 release which will be coming sometime in the nearer future. Just a few more adjustments and a bunch of research and build settings to get done.
Anyways, this vaygr ship will replace the Battlecruiser for the Vaygr Raider fleet. This ship is in no way spectacular. It has a basic armament for dealing with most threats, can not build any subsystems and has no docking bay.
What defines the Attack Cruiser is the fact it can be easily mass-produced and tends to operate in wolfpacks, hunting down enemy capital ships and frigates, dealing damage while the rest of the fleet keeps its targets disabled.
Unlike most raider ships, the light cruiser doesn't carry any dedicated EMP weapons. It is however fitted with heavy armor plating capable of withstanding more damage than most comparable sized ships.
Fantastic ship Mololu, your skills are improving.
Sure its a simple base shape but the detail and texturing makes it interesting.
Great work.
I've actually found that simple shapes with adequete details and textures work better in HW2 than complex meshes which take a long time to make and end up looking very much the same as simpler models.
If you look at most of the ships I've made, the textures really make them, not the base geometry.
Are we looking at forward firing cannons, and two separate missile launchers?
Approval!
Except the name..."Light" Cruiser implies that it is less heavy armed/armoured/sized than a Cruiser...so it's either a heavy cruiser or light battlecruiser...I'd say Attack Cruiser fits this Baby.
At the moment it looks like it's gonna have destroyer-like firepower(a bit more), maybe add a very heavy missile tube to the bottom with a corvette-sized cruise missile that ejects down with the tip facing forward. Maybe after an Upgrade. Just an Idea. ^^
I thought of attack cruiser or simmilar but the ship is actually smaller and less heavily armed than the normal cruiser.
Armament is: 2x forward destroyer cannon 8x side cannons, 2x lance beam and 8x heavy fusion missiles.
A side note, the orientation of the ship has been fixed. The bridge is now on the right side.
Make more!! They are awesome.
Right now getting all the kadeshi ships together is my main goal, then I'll get round to fixing everything up and balancing (ugh).
Very sleek and very aggressive looking. Will this play a fast attack role?
That is the role it plays.
Whats the fire power and speed?
don't know off the top of my head (and I'm using a new speed and damage model anyways). It's roughly the speed of the other vaygr cruisers and has better damage than a destroyer but less than a battlecruiser.
This thing looks friggin awesome.