the HODGEPODGE GRAND

Post by **Massam** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:11 am

I want to have a brikwar inside the ship. And while the boarding party is fighting, have the ship fighting the rest of your ships, and have bits blow off, sucking troops out into the vacuum of space.

Post by **Strana** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:42 pm

that would be awesome and is the plan on the 30th. also i calcultated the internal storage capacity of the main deck and is i took out the wall that shortens the flight bay and seperates it from engineering i can fit 39 swarmers not that i have even close to that many. but it would look something like this once deployed.

this pumps out about 156 d6's a turn

thats about 520 points of damage a turn. range of 156-936 + rerolls, can any ship survive this kind of damage.

a ship if SL5 and 10 shields is assumed then average roll is 15-150 + rerolls. + armor up to 1 per sl 5-30+ rerolls. this gives you on everage a max defense of 180 vs a damage of 936. or 5 times the defensive value of a ship

all i can say is what have i done

the only thing stopping it is the $400 doller price tag[/b]

Post by **tahthing** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 2:55 pm

well worth it.

Post by **Warhead** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 3:54 pm

I liked this bit. The boss is a hard man to work for.

Post by **Nitewatchman** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 4:59 pm

Good work!

Man, I need to go get some pictures of my ship and post them...I built a neat little carrier/battleship for my fleet.

Post by **Natalya** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:11 pm

I have been sorting another one of my big lego bins into colours and such. Once that is completed I might have the resources to start a new SHIP. Maybe I'll give it an emphasis on taking out star fighters, instead of other capital ships. But yea the Longinus isn't meant to fight against a swarm like that, and would probably lose.

Post by **dilanski** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:46 pm

NatalyaAF wrote:I have been sorting another one of my big lego bins into colours and such. Once that is completed I might have the resources to start a new SHIP. Maybe I'll give it an emphasis on taking out star fighters, instead of other capital ships. But yea the Longinus isn't meant to fight against a swarm like that, and would probably lose.

Question, are you destroying sonks or making another, and will it be bigger?

Post by **Strana** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:11 pm

well even im concerned about fighter superiority. originally i thought the swarmers were a cool idea, and they still are, RoC is already building anti swarmer tactics afound his d-pods, and im building gunboat size craft tailor built to fend off waves of fighter craft , and to fill in the defensive holes in a fleets anti fighter net. the invention and deployment of the fighters and by extension swarmers is a very interesting turn of development and it will take awhile to re-spec fleets to handle the problem of fighters of this type it represents.

Post by **dilanski** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:30 pm

Strana wrote:well even im concerned about fighter superiority. originally I thought the swarmers were a cool idea, and they still are, RoC is already building anti swarmer tactics afound his d-pods, and im building gunboat size craft tailor built to fend off waves of fighter craft , and to fill in the defensive holes in a fleets anti fighter net. the invention and deployment of the fighters and by extension swarmers is a very interesting turn of development and it will take awhile to re-spec fleets to handle the problem of fighters of this type it represents.

Hmmmm swarmers represent the need for mass production, wahts needed is an even more mass produceable weapon, like space mines. or drones

(why do i rely on stargate for every image?) get a load of these, attach them to a platform and launch all of them at enemy ships, ok they only need one shot to bring down, but try shooting down 20 of them while under heavey fire.

Post by **501stCadians** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:45 pm

It's great. It reminds me of the Pillar Of Autumn...

Post by **Magic Soap** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:47 am

... As in Halo?

Post by **501stCadians** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 2:11 pm

Post by **Strana** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:04 pm

dilanski wrote:
Hmmmm swarmers represent the need for mass production, wahts needed is an even more mass produceable weapon, like space mines. or drones

(why do I rely on stargate for every image?) get a load of these, attach them to a platform and launch all of them at enemy ships, ok they only need one shot to bring down, but try shooting down 20 of them while under heavey fire.

well if you look in the rules suplemental sectional youll see my rules for minifigure scale space combat, and in under the bonuses section are space torpedoes, the only thing is that they are horrendously expensive a basic space torpedo that can travel 20" a turn and carrys a Mk V payload is 178 cp, damned expensive but they ignore shields and do 1d12 per weapon class or in this case 5d12 and have a 1d20 per 2 marks in this case you looking at a weapon that can do 5d12 damage over a 2-40" area great for anti swarmer but like i said damned expesive.

Post by **Natalya** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:19 pm

Best anti-swarm technology is rapid fire FlaK guns.

Post by **Elmagnifico** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:20 pm

Another anti-fighter idea would be a fast cruiser or frigate with no weapons on the front face, just an immoral amount of armor on the front, and an equal amount of engines on the back, along with some mines or flak-type weapons. The idea is, to go insanely fast. The swarmers act like a bunch of bees interacting with a windshield. The only weak points, the engines and such, will be on the back with all the deadly flaks and mine dispensers which will be firing full blast.