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Re: Highwind-Class Battlecruiser
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lugnet.space
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Fri, 17 Nov 2000 08:22:40 GMT
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Rick Hallman <Sephiroths@REMOVEHotmail.com> wrote in message
news:G3t4Do.Kxz@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.space, Doug Dropeskey writes: • <snip>
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> > 2) Push the booms out further. Add much smaller booms that come out over
> > the top and bottom of the central cavity. Add some blue highlights • around
> > the inside edges of the fork (energy radiators for the central cannon).
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> Explain this a wee bit more.
Top View:
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Port Boom
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| ^ ^ ^
------------- Radiators
New Boom
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| v v v
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Starboard Boom
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I just realized your ship launches fighters from between the front booms
(i.e., the forks), so having evergy radiators for a large gun along the
inner surfaces may not make sense. I guess you're fine as long as you don't
begin flight operations while firing. :)
Another neat addition would be launch tubes coming out of the sides of the
ship. Fighters would launch from the tubes and land somewhere else (like
your existing hanger enterances).
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> Mark said I had too many guns :-), but I need ones that can shoot down. He
> even helped me on the 5 turrets on the sides. I am going to re-render this
> afternoon, half-day of school.
A typical WWII BB (or CA) had far more guns than your ship, mostly for air
defense. If you want to follow that model, include differant gun sizes for
differant jobs--small guns for AA (or AS, I guess), medium guns for engaging
things like destroyers, and big guns for killing capital ships. For a more
modern approach, forget the guns and pack it full of missiles.
<snip>
> > 8) Adding a docking collar to one side of the vessel.
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> With a 1x1 bracket brick?
I was thinking of something bigger--a docking ring large enough for two
carriers, or a carrier and a base, to pass heavy equipment or even whole
fighters. Or maybe the each ring docks a carrier pod, holding an extra
squadron of fighters (a la SFB carrier pods).
-Doug
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| (...) Where are those 1x4 tiles with SW circuitry....Time to make a new part... (...) Explain this a wee bit more. (...) hmmm....I could use that, maybe using 1x1 plates for windows. (...) There is two flight decks, between the booms, has a red (...) (24 years ago, 10-Nov-00, to lugnet.space)
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