UPA MKIV Stregga Dropship

Post by **ikensall** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:57 pm

Please belive me when I say I want to give you the sign of "Excellence" but those peaches keep biting me in the back when I load up image shack

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But the drop ship is very nice indeed, you have some very good builds here as well.

Post by **Keldoclock** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:25 pm

While this is VERY awesome, why is the transport capacity so low? It only carries 4 dudes, and that's barely a fireteam. It's more of an attack helicopter with a small transport capacity, like the M24 Hind.

It is quite promising that you have multiples of these- I'm guessing that means you have instructions and some sort of parts list, that way you could Bricklink up some moar easily

! These are armies gentlemen (and Blitzen, Natalya, booty bothered, severalcatsdancing, RunswithLegoes), they should be large and generally army-like!

Post by **Natalya** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:50 pm

Most of the people on this forum don't have the resources to amass huge armies like me and RoC77 and Warhead. And those of us who have done it have usually spent years collecting and developing our armies. The Assyrians and the Czech-Republikans for example have been around for 9 years if I'm counting correctly.

Post by **Keldoclock** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:57 pm

Natalya wrote:Most of the people on this forum don't have the resources to amass huge armies like me and RoC77 and Warhead. And those of us who have done it have usually spent years collecting and developing our armies. The Assyrians and the Czech-Republikans for example have been around for 9 years if I'm counting correctly.

I am one of said most people. However, I'm working on making a proper debut into the Brikverse, with a Microspace battle(first contact with Immortals), a Capture mission, and eventually leading to me making a few Assyrians and having them (with your permission ofc) as allies.

Post by **Natalya** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:00 pm

I always encourage fans of my factions to use them freely in battles and stories and stuff. Only two things to note with the Assyrians though are that they have declared war against the Immortals and they are violent peach haters.

Post by **Keldoclock** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:31 pm

Natalya wrote:I always encourage fans of my factions to use them freely in battles and stories and stuff. Only two things to note with the Assyrians though are that they have declared war against the Immortals and they are violent peach haters.

I realize this- if you've read that one battle report I posted you'll notice that my forces are also against peaches, and the way the Immortal thing should go is that they get all arrogant and "Lol, dude look at these guys trying to be an army! They still use chemical propellant weapons!" "BWAHAHAHAHA lets invade the shit out of these primitives"
They come in with not enough troops and ignorance, and that makes it a pretty even fight between the forces.

Post by **OneEye589** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:01 am

They can each hold 6 troops, I just only have 8 heavy troopers, so the other two spots on each ship carry the gunners. They could just as easily be replaced with troopers if I had more.

The capacity is lower because I wanted it to look more realistic as well. Even in the future, machinery will need to be big and bulky to give it power. The troop area is small because it makes sense that it would be smaller compared to where the engines are situated. Also, the troopers all have backpacks on and will be carrying weapons. The backpacks take up two studs behind each fig, so a fig takes up an area of around 3 studs by 3 studs while sitting.

I built them both at the same time, so I don't really have a parts list, though I could make one. It may seem like I would have a lot of Lego because of these pairs of creations, but really I've used up most of my handy white, light grey/bley and dark grey/bley on these dropships and the tankettes.