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Post by **Pwnerade** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 3:29 am

Glorious!

Post by **Robot Monkey** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:39 am

Pwnerade wrote:Glorious!

Yes, indeed.

Post by **Skyian Leader** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:19 pm

the Tank looks menacing. Whats the Mrk of the guns? The large rocket pods look sweet, and are they single shot each, or do they have multiple reloads, allowing salvos of 8 each turn (or every other turn, due to one turn reloads, or is it synchronized salvos of 4)?
I like the implementation for the folding away of the machine guns on the skimmer, I had defensive dual miniguns for intercepting missiles on my ship that folded away into the ships hull and covered with disguised hatches, so they would never know if there was a blind spot in my missile defense spot (which there was, I ran out of minigun mounts). To bad the ship was scrapped, but it looked terrible. maybe i should plan designs more...

anyways, your work is inspiring!

Post by **Robot Monkey** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:03 pm

Skyian Leader wrote:the Tank looks menacing. Whats the Mrk of the guns? The large rocket pods look sweet, and are they single shot each, or do they have multiple reloads, allowing salvos of 8 each turn (or every other turn, due to one turn reloads, or is it synchronized salvos of 4)?
I like the implementation for the folding away of the machine guns on the skimmer, I had defensive dual miniguns for intercepting missiles on my ship that folded away into the ships hull and covered with disguised hatches, so they would never know if there was a blind spot in my missile defense spot (which there was, I ran out of minigun mounts). To bad the ship was scrapped, but it looked terrible. maybe I should plan designs more...

anyways, your work is inspiring!

Thanks! Glad I inspired you. I don't exactly have a MK for the gun, but I'd put it somewhere near MKIII. The missile launchers can shoot both pods at the same time, then have a one turn reload, or I can have it shoot one pod per turn for a constant barrage. And a note on the miniguns: I scrapped some old bionicles to get the gray pins with studs and spacers so I could make miniguns, the I usually use the stud on the pin to mount it to vehicles, even though sometimes I'll use old star wars droid arms and faucet pieces as a mount. Also, hidden miniguns?

Post by **Skyian Leader** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:59 pm

Well, that ship was supposed to be in disguise as a freighter, with all weapons hidden, and could be easily deployed. Lure them in with bait of an easy kill, then spring the trap.

just an example with the chin mounted Quad Rotary Heavy Blaster. my other ones actually raised up out of the hull, this one just had the top peal away, something simple.

Post by **Robot Monkey** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:51 pm

Nice!

Anyway, Dreadnought time!

As the Immortal War escalated, the RIN saw an increase in mech pilot casualties. They saved what they can and put them into Uber-Titan mechs, and occasionally one would go to pilot Omega Doom. They needed another way to use these barely-alive pilots, so a Dreadnought, essentially a coffin, albeit a battle-ready one, was devised.

Each Dreadnought was given a quad-barreled heavy boltgun, allowing it to mow down large groups of infantry.

They were also given large MKII missile launchers to deal with vehicles and other armored targets.

Back view, showing off the heavily-armored power core.

Top view.

A closeup of the legs.

So, what do you guys think?

Post by **Silverdream** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:35 pm

Awesome dreadnought. Chunky, but not at all ugly.

Post by **Robot Monkey** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:37 pm

Silverdream wrote:Awesome dreadnought. Chunky, but not at all ugly.

Thanks! I was inspired by Rev and Natalya's dreadnoughts.

Post by **Skyian Leader** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:02 pm

eh, i love the upper frame, but the legs look to... movable. Needs to be squater, i think. but that's just me

(im used to GW dreadnoughts)

Post by **Zupponn** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:03 pm

Looks very stout.

Post by **Skyian Leader** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:05 am

actually, never mind. The front looks great, it was just the back that was trippin' me up.

Post by **Robot Monkey** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:47 am

Zupponn wrote:Looks very stout.

Thanks!

And @Sky: I tried to have the air intake (engine piece) facing up and at an angle so it was less likely to have something lodged in there like a grenade, so that's why the back looks kinda weird from some angles.

Post by **Skyian Leader** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:26 pm

Oh, we have a smart one here! But the only way to truly defend against that is to have proximity mounted flechette charges, that go off when a unidentified object enters the vicinity of the grenade, and it explodes, doing no damage to the hull (Shaped charges) and propels hundreds of metal tips in the direction, maiming men and sometimes even rockets. EXPLODING DEFENSE!

Post by **Robot Monkey** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 2:03 pm

Skyian Leader wrote:Oh, we have a smart one here! But the only way to truly defend against that is to have proximity mounted flechette charges, that go off when a unidentified object enters the vicinity of the grenade, and it explodes, doing no damage to the hull (Shaped charges) and propels hundreds of metal tips in the direction, maiming men and sometimes even rockets. EXPLODING DEFENSE!

The United States Army beat you to that one, sorry.

Post by **BFenix** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 2:45 pm

Alright, sweet dread, Robo! The power core is a gem. Looks -like any dreadnought- pretty menacing.

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