High Command Kadeshi Swarm video - R.E.A.R.M. - The Unofficial Classic HW 2 Expansion mod for Homeworld 2
R.E.A.R.M. - "Rearmament Expansion And Redesign Mod" is an unofficial Homeworld 2 expansion and it adds number of new interesting and various units.
High Command Kadeshi Swarm
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I've just made a new formation for Kadeshi High Command Swarmers and I was so happy about it that I had to make a video. It's probably not obvious, but the formation has a shape similar to some kind of jellyfish. Ok, it's not a big deal and the video is made of a few shot from a ten minutes test, but since I have some time now, I thought I could do it.
Everything Kadeshi here is made by Mololu and modified by me. You can for example notice that my ships have badges and Swarmers have nice detailed cockpits. :)
There are only two Swarmer squadrons in this video.
I've noticed there's a glitch, I'll reupload it.
That looks awesome ;( but I really need to fix the dock paths on the needleship. Way too long and in a straight line.
I don't think it's a dockpath problem in this case, it's because there are 72 fighters in a single squadron.
Now who has the biggest squadron size Makaan...
Sorry, is this a question?
However the dock path can be wound around the back of the needle so it doesn't look like one long line of fighters. This is something I may do in future. If you want the update, you can gladly have it.
Like a spiral? That would be interesting. Or maybe the dock/launch path exits the needleship from the top, twists around the needle once, and then exits to the broadside of the Needleship?
This is probably going to be there, I really like the idea. It's the way to keep the circular theme of docking path with just a single one.
Reuploading the video now.
crazy and awesome :D
72 Fighters in each Sqaudran......72 x 25.....hmm..carry the pie.... XD wow thats alot of fighters
This is for the High Command, the game mode with large squadrons (8 frigates in squadron, 4 Destroyers in squadron etc) and "Low" or "Very low" is the highest unit cap recomended there.
what if you set it to very high and have fighters only? will the entire fabric of the mod lag to death?
Depends on your machine. You can play it on High with strikecrafts only, the Low or Very low is just the recommended safe zone ("Low" is already too high in High Command). But of course you can use it as a tool to find out what your PC can do, because getting the hundreds of units on the battlefield has never been easier.
You could, theoretically, play HC (High Command) with Very High unit caps, in which case you could build 40 fighter squadrons. And with 72 fighters in each squadron in HC, that would be 2880 total Swarmers for the Kadeshi.
You could also play with infinite unit caps, if somehow almost three thousand Swarmers isn't good enough...
we can make a benchmark out of it...
I just realized how weak this video is, it doesn't show anything what Swarmers are in the High Command game. Maybe better next time.
Well um... when I looked at the vid and saw ten.. well fifty... wow... actually HUNDREDS fly out I sort of got the idea of "so thats why they're called swarmers".