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Comepllor-class Star Cruiser Seemed to be the long awaited imperial conuterpart to home one rebel command ship, similar in size and scale, unlike the Allegiance which squeezed nearly comparable firepower into a hull modestly larger then a destroyer, a True muti-role cruiser I wonder what role it pl...

You see, BattleTech recently released a PDF Technical Readout for, of all eras, 1945. With rules for using WWII-era units with BattleTech rules. And yes, while they do confirm that a .50 cal still counts as a machinegun, it now only counts as an infantry support machinegun, which does less than a p...

ISDs aren't really glass cannons being able to take alot of punishment as well as deal it, in ROTS a Venator took a point blank broadside from the separtist ship (of similar size) and seemed to survive and ISDs are similar in terms of durability. while the Minbari War Cruisers don't seem to be able...

In the 'real' LoGH setting, if Reinhard goes off to personally lead a conquest fleet, he's likely to see his own power base eaten out from under him by revolts and secessions on the home front. they made a rather large point in the final season I think that Oskar von Reuenthal was often painted as ...

The game was also a Minbari vs EA bloodbath, even accounting for tech difference in particular as the heavy ship mentality of the EA but without the jamming of the minbari made them idea targets for minbari Sharlins to blow out of the sky, while the EA fighter spam was easily countered by superior m...

Bigger longer ranged guns that let you get the first shot off are an obvious good idea, but the EA's brains seem to overheat at this point and they chase the idea past the point of diminishing returns; heavy long guns- look at the physical size of the Warlock's spinal mount- that have essentially t...

Both the SW GE/40k IOM seems to lack something resembling Star trek the gensis device/halo Nova bomb, a superweapon that does not need a high end ship to launch it, I wonder what in-universe reason that they both seem to lack it, as even EU star wars really only had the Sun crusher, the does seem ra...

Eighteen basestars, eh? I hope the Earth forces have better luck than the Sulaco did (I'm betting that they will), or Pegasus is going to get the snot pounded out of her. I see it as more for everybody, eighteen basestars means there something for everybody in our coalition of RTF fleet/allied Cylo...

If the emperor ever died on his golden throne, it would be interesting if that released him to become the nucleus of a human warp god. Desire to protect humanity would not make him a happy god anymore than imperials fighting for man are nice people. I wonder if the Emperor will be a cruel god as we...

Scale wise - hehe, well I modeled this to 6.4km, upper Saxton estimate, but it's in text scaled to 4.8km. Whatever, call it Praetor II vs Praetor III. Visually it basically means the turrets and windows get smaller. The nice thing about this ship is that there are very few cues to size, so you can ...

The Dominion came across as a more technologically advanced mirror version of the Federation That was part of the original idea of the Dominion I think a Anti-federation twin to the Federation, like the mirror universe terrran empire was also a dark federation counterpart, I wish this angle was sho...

t's also amazing how if you changed the family of Arkansas good old folks with Mary Sues and Bobby Joes and turned them into exotic strange different blue non-human foreigners, turned their idyllic farmy warmy lifestyle into some woo-woo nature-worshiping primitivist jungle people stuff with glowy ...

Actually I'm not so sure. Ersatz-US Marines vs ersatz native Americans instantly ignites tribal loyalties and racism, and blue spear-chucking giants are a direct physical and psychological threat to first-world audiences (even moreso when they can seduce our marines as well as kill them!). Sentient...

I just read Hull 721 part 1, what ship was being referenced for the Ultor battlecruisers?

Probably a combination of heavy weapons and lack of sufficient manpower- they sent down guys with blaster rifles who weren't prepared to handle entrenched opposition, or artillery bombardment of their positions, and who didn't have much in the way of armor or air support. The fleet's failure to dis...

Also, it helps to move the 40k universe away from the grimdark that has been threatening to overwhelm it for quite some time. Rather than just another all-destroying force, the Necrons are a part of the wider fabric. Yeah, this also removes the necrons from competing with Chaos for the role of grea...

I followed that story and it's sequel age of dusk

So, we have an Empire that is more warlike and more prepared for war, albeit not the war they are about to fight, and a Federation that is more flexible but less unified, and must contend simultaneously with all it's other borders as well lest the Klingons, Romulans and other hostile border politie...

Come off what? Pointing out that Crysis wasn't the blockbuster success they'd hoped? If a game takes years to be profitable it's going to make any developer tepid about putting the same effort into a sequel. Particularly if you are not Blizzard or the sims games, those have truly long tailed, far l...

Although I have to admit that the posited death of high-gloss big-budget sci-fi/action geek-pleasing content thanks to piracy enabled by people who are frequently themselves big-budget sci-fi/action fan geeks is pleasingly symmetrical. Let the motherfuckers develop a taste for romantic comedy. Seem...

The problem with the prequels was that the part of the story that would become Episode III had all the stuff everyone wanted to see, and Lucas felt it necessary to set all of that up with TPM and AoTC. I posted the same thoughts on similar threads on the PT vs the classic trilogy, this stands out f...

In general I was wondering always of the tradeoffs of the two had against each other, in BFG imperials as supposed to be the most well rounded fleet, but Chaos was actually better in smaller battles thanks to a more less specialized cruisers than the imperial fleet. The space marine also seems to fa...

For the most part, Tau only really have a generic futuristic aesthetic That is really the reason I always felt the Tau was out of place, theire aestheic was just rather genric futuristic, compared to the more stylized designs for all the other armies, they felt too genric by comparsion to the other...

And once they take over, they'll allow you to join up or continue living your normal life. Except that they've sterilized your entire population so that in a generation or two, it won't matter anyways. That doesn't change the fact that they are polite enough to ask before blasting you to smithermee...