Posted by: boggo2300
« on: November 18, 2012, 05:56:56 PM »Meson cannons!
Why do I hear this in a Jar-Jar Binks voice in my head?
Matt
Why do I hear this in a Jar-Jar Binks voice in my head?
Matt
Posted by: waresky
« on: November 05, 2012, 02:03:40 AM »Finally read
A Return to the Past..2007 Good Old History am remember
ur work seems awesome ma friend.
Cya!!
A Return to the Past..2007 Good Old History am remember
ur work seems awesome ma friend.
Cya!!
Posted by: HaliRyan
« on: November 03, 2012, 07:54:41 AM »How about fighters that are in orbit providing ground support bonuses, it ground troops. This would be a great edition and give Laser/guass/rail fighters a useful role, without creating atmosphere issues. And make naval (space) operation even important when ground combat is on.
I really like this idea!
Posted by: ardem
« on: October 31, 2012, 08:25:22 PM »Perhaps, adding a Orbital Defence type structure, that gives you a defensive value to counter act strafing/close air support runs from smaller (Fac or Fighter, perhaps small frigates.) vessels. This enables conventional ground attack/artillery/support, adds more depth for defending and attacking with ground forces, and the orbital defence platforms/structures could also do damage to troop transports/assault dropships when the troops initially land.
One small problem is that the only weapons that work in Atmosphere are Meson, and missiles? ((I can't remember if railguns can but I know Gauss can't) so perhaps you'd have to loosen the rules in that respect to make it viable for Gauss/Railgun/Laser armed fighters, to do strafing runs, or Facs/small frigates doing the same thing.
Sorry if the grammar/spelling of this post is horrific, i'm pretty tired as I'm writing this >.>. I'll come back and edit it when I have some brain capacity back; until then i'll let you all decipher it.
How about fighters that are in orbit providing ground support bonuses, it ground troops. This would be a great edition and give Laser/guass/rail fighters a useful role, without creating atmosphere issues. And make naval (space) operation even important when ground combat is on.
I would love to see hidden PDC, that would be nice so it only turns on when in orbit launches fire or fighters, this would make approaching a planet even more cautious.
Posted by: ollobrains
« on: October 30, 2012, 09:42:02 PM »any updates steve enjoying reading, the next update i guess follows up the continued expansion or taking on the aliens in alpha Centarui
Posted by: HaliRyan
« on: October 28, 2012, 07:16:25 PM »It's been a while, but I've never seen a starting shipyard over 16,000 tons, and I'm pretty sure it takes way more than two years to go from there to 30k. Unless you have a ton of shipbuilding upgrades, I mean.
It depends on the population you start with I think.
Posted by: Vanigo
« on: October 26, 2012, 06:03:52 PM »TN start and continuous capacity expansion.It's been a while, but I've never seen a starting shipyard over 16,000 tons, and I'm pretty sure it takes way more than two years to go from there to 30k. Unless you have a ton of shipbuilding upgrades, I mean.
Posted by: ThatBlondeGuy
« on: October 26, 2012, 04:10:17 AM »or SM'ing the starting conditions to take into account some more RP elements.
Posted by: Garfunkel
« on: October 26, 2012, 12:12:01 AM »TN start and continuous capacity expansion.
Posted by: Vanigo
« on: October 25, 2012, 10:11:06 PM »I've always wondered, how do you build such big ships so early in the game? I've never gotten a military shipyard anywhere close to 30,000 tons, even in multi-decade games.
Posted by: ThatBlondeGuy
« on: October 25, 2012, 09:28:03 AM »Perhaps, adding a Orbital Defence type structure, that gives you a defensive value to counter act strafing/close air support runs from smaller (Fac or Fighter, perhaps small frigates.) vessels. This enables conventional ground attack/artillery/support, adds more depth for defending and attacking with ground forces, and the orbital defence platforms/structures could also do damage to troop transports/assault dropships when the troops initially land.
One small problem is that the only weapons that work in Atmosphere are Meson, and missiles? ((I can't remember if railguns can but I know Gauss can't) so perhaps you'd have to loosen the rules in that respect to make it viable for Gauss/Railgun/Laser armed fighters, to do strafing runs, or Facs/small frigates doing the same thing.
Sorry if the grammar/spelling of this post is horrific, i'm pretty tired as I'm writing this >.>. I'll come back and edit it when I have some brain capacity back; until then i'll let you all decipher it.
One small problem is that the only weapons that work in Atmosphere are Meson, and missiles? ((I can't remember if railguns can but I know Gauss can't) so perhaps you'd have to loosen the rules in that respect to make it viable for Gauss/Railgun/Laser armed fighters, to do strafing runs, or Facs/small frigates doing the same thing.
Sorry if the grammar/spelling of this post is horrific, i'm pretty tired as I'm writing this >.>. I'll come back and edit it when I have some brain capacity back; until then i'll let you all decipher it.
Posted by: HaliRyan
« on: October 17, 2012, 03:27:37 PM »Meson cannons!
Edit: Assault dropships take seconds to unload. Transports take hours or days. Granted, this may not matter if the ground combat only happens on 5-day intervals.
That's a good point. It'd be very cool if your transports could be attacked on the ground by enemy ground forces while they're unloading troops.
Posted by: chuckles73
« on: October 17, 2012, 08:47:20 AM »And how do you take out the PDCs without nukes?
Meson cannons!
Edit: Assault dropships take seconds to unload. Transports take hours or days. Granted, this may not matter if the ground combat only happens on 5-day intervals.
Posted by: UnLimiTeD
« on: October 17, 2012, 05:26:26 AM »Which is another nice point.
Why can I just land troops on a planet with my transports, despite not having a single assault dropship?
Conventional AA and Artillery should be a factor in that.
And how do you take out the PDCs without nukes? Ultimately, there's a lot of material for 7.0.
Though we'll have to discuss that when the time comes.
Why can I just land troops on a planet with my transports, despite not having a single assault dropship?
Conventional AA and Artillery should be a factor in that.
And how do you take out the PDCs without nukes? Ultimately, there's a lot of material for 7.0.
Though we'll have to discuss that when the time comes.
Posted by: TheDeadlyShoe
« on: October 16, 2012, 10:30:23 PM »Irrelevant; You don't conduct ground invasions without wiping the PDCs, and/or troop dropships are way more important targets than precision bombers anyway.
