@Grob0s0VBRa ...And here I thought that a Baneblade analogue would resemble an even CHONK-ier Maus.... or perhaps the CNC3 MARV. Either way, if we wanted to make one using "only" historical parts.... the baneblade's coaxial turret just screams "Maus" with the main gun replaced with what's basically a 280mm howitzer (that somehow hits like a 150mm, so 15cm sFH18 or ML-20) and the coaxial nerfed (somehow) to a QF 2pdr or Borfors 40mm L/60, the Demolisher cannon is a dead ringer for Sturmtiger's RW61 rocket mortar (funny how the Leman Russ Demolisher could apparently fit one inside its smol turret while the Vindicator or even the Land Raider Ares needed to be emptied out just to fit one), plus six M19 grenade launchers and two 37mm guns (both based on their closest size equivalents) but apparently capable of punching through tanks because they're SuPEr aDVaNCed tEcHNOlOgY... Yeah, WH40k designs are weird, and a lot of the ordnance's firepower does not translate nearly as nicely to the tabletop as they're in the fluff. Hell, if anything, the closest equivalent to this particular Rampager in the WH40k universe would be the Leman Russ of all things, with a battle cannon (likely the Vanquisher variant) in the turret and two lascannons in the sponsons.
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... Of course nobody's stopping ya from going hog-wild with Soviet tech by switching the demolisher cannon with a pair of RBT-5 rockets and the heavy bolters with DShK machine guns...
This one, if properly mirrored, looks like some sci-fi fighter that could exist in some anime or something..... not sure how nicely it would fly, though.
@Grob0s0VBRa So... basically, it's like tanks in 1930s, engines the size of a house with main gun the size of a broom? That said, although early-war Churchills are house-sized pillboxes the late-war variants are both sturdy and powerful in their own right. Perhaps there could be some sort of upgrade kits to their weapons as later variants, like with more coaxial guns and rocket launchers and such?
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. Granted, the issue about non-chemical weapons is that the energy (and thus damage) output available is directly tied to the reactors - without a powerful enough reactor, you can't power the guns. With a chemical platform (including chemical guns and rockets/missiles), as long as you can support the weight (and recoil) you can use it.
@Grob0s0VBRa So... if it's a T1, why the size? IIRC the NATION is not known for making mobile walls (British infantry tanks * cough * * cough *) so "the size is for armor and shield generators" wouldn't stand, and as far as practical units go unless the size is due to they're made with civilian parts and thus don't have enough power/volume ratio to power the weapons with a smaller chassis...
@Grob0s0VBRa STILL NOT 'NUFF DAKKA YER GIT! ...LOIST YER SWOICHED DA BIG SHOOTA FER DA SOOPA-SHOOTA... STOILL, TA MOIKE DIS STOMPA PROPA' ORKY, BOLT TWO UVVA' BIG SHOOTAZ TA DA SOIDEZ, DA ROKKIT LAUNCHA TA DA TOP, AN' ANUVVA' BIG SHOOTA TA DA GOB IZ A GUD START...
. I wouldn't say it got nearly enough dakka (no coaxial MGs and/or remote weapon stations), but at least what it does have is more powerful... Hell, combine the weapons on the two models and put a coaxial HMG on both sides of the main hull and I'd call it a good start.
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"Just in time" Yup, a day before I start to ramble about this not having enough guns... The NATION doesn't seem to carry that many guns on its platforms, given the last NATION walker is also underarmed for its size.
Errr... does anybody know if we can bring lead turret mode back? I mean, the 1.11 update allows for camera-aimed turrets but the lead indicator seems to be off... a lot.
The legend lives on from Chippawa home down♪
Of the great lake they call Gitche-Gumee♪
The lake it is said, never gives up her dead♪
When the skies of November turn gloomy♪
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more♪
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty♪
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed♪
When the gales of November came early♪
@Grob0s0VBRa ++ Frak, another Arch Magos with an illustrious career, forever lost to the tides of the empyrean. May Omnissiah forever bless his immortal soul. Gloria Omissiah. ++
Yup, aside from the fact that the brown pupper guy have literal antigravity systems and energy shields inside his planes (read: standard sparking dieselpunk bull-* [Censored] *), not too much of an issue. Keep up the good work, RJ!
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... Also, does anybody know why Treadmill103 fell off the internet?
T h u n d e r b l o c k
+3@Gx
+1@Grob0s0VBRa ...And here I thought that a Baneblade analogue would resemble an even CHONK-ier Maus.... or perhaps the CNC3 MARV. Either way, if we wanted to make one using "only" historical parts.... the baneblade's coaxial turret just screams "Maus" with the main gun replaced with what's basically a 280mm howitzer (that somehow hits like a 150mm, so 15cm sFH18 or ML-20) and the coaxial nerfed (somehow) to a QF 2pdr or Borfors 40mm L/60, the Demolisher cannon is a dead ringer for Sturmtiger's RW61 rocket mortar (funny how the Leman Russ Demolisher could apparently fit one inside its smol turret while the Vindicator or even the Land Raider Ares needed to be emptied out just to fit one), plus six M19 grenade launchers and two 37mm guns (both based on their closest size equivalents) but apparently capable of punching through tanks because they're SuPEr aDVaNCed tEcHNOlOgY... Yeah, WH40k designs are weird, and a lot of the ordnance's firepower does not translate nearly as nicely to the tabletop as they're in the fluff. Hell, if anything, the closest equivalent to this particular Rampager in the WH40k universe would be the Leman Russ of all things, with a battle cannon (likely the Vanquisher variant) in the turret and two lascannons in the sponsons.
+1.
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... Of course nobody's stopping ya from going hog-wild with Soviet tech by switching the demolisher cannon with a pair of RBT-5 rockets and the heavy bolters with DShK machine guns...
Eat your heart out, Malcador!
+1FiRsT
+1Thomas here, ready to rock and roll.
This one, if properly mirrored, looks like some sci-fi fighter that could exist in some anime or something..... not sure how nicely it would fly, though.
Is it just me... or am I the only one who finds this particular Echostar the most attractive one among all designs...
@YEEEETplane Well, technically speaking you weren't wrong...
+2So... what's the difference between this and this?
+1"and yes I DID spell that right. screw you autocorrect"
+1.
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... Commonwealth spelling, I assume?
T o r i g a m c a t
+3'Grats on plat!
+1... Did you just put this under "racing"? Befitting....
+1"Now THIS is podracing!"
@Tookan Soon enough, someone will make their simulated humans play a simulated flight simulator that's slowly turning into a human simulator....
+2B O N G
+3* Onion intensifies *
+3Well, fitting that a foxgirl makes a beautiful plane called the Vixen...
@Grob0s0VBRa So... basically, it's like tanks in 1930s, engines the size of a house with main gun the size of a broom? That said, although early-war Churchills are house-sized pillboxes the late-war variants are both sturdy and powerful in their own right. Perhaps there could be some sort of upgrade kits to their weapons as later variants, like with more coaxial guns and rocket launchers and such?
+2.
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Granted, the issue about non-chemical weapons is that the energy (and thus damage) output available is directly tied to the reactors - without a powerful enough reactor, you can't power the guns. With a chemical platform (including chemical guns and rockets/missiles), as long as you can support the weight (and recoil) you can use it.
@Grob0s0VBRa So... if it's a T1, why the size? IIRC the NATION is not known for making mobile walls (British infantry tanks * cough * * cough *) so "the size is for armor and shield generators" wouldn't stand, and as far as practical units go unless the size is due to they're made with civilian parts and thus don't have enough power/volume ratio to power the weapons with a smaller chassis...
+2She's... Beautiful...
+1@Grob0s0VBRa
+2STILL NOT 'NUFF DAKKA YER GIT! ...LOIST YER SWOICHED DA BIG SHOOTA FER DA SOOPA-SHOOTA... STOILL, TA MOIKE DIS STOMPA PROPA' ORKY, BOLT TWO UVVA' BIG SHOOTAZ TA DA SOIDEZ, DA ROKKIT LAUNCHA TA DA TOP, AN' ANUVVA' BIG SHOOTA TA DA GOB IZ A GUD START...
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I wouldn't say it got nearly enough dakka (no coaxial MGs and/or remote weapon stations), but at least what it does have is more powerful... Hell, combine the weapons on the two models and put a coaxial HMG on both sides of the main hull and I'd call it a good start.
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"Just in time"
Yup, a day before I start to ramble about this not having enough guns... The NATION doesn't seem to carry that many guns on its platforms, given the last NATION walker is also underarmed for its size.
@Grob0s0VBRa Probably a misspelling of "commenting"?
@Gx The answer to all three questions seems to be "yes".
+1@Gx
One quick question: which vessel is this based on?
+1Is that... a flak Churchill?
+1... How did you land on Tiny Two?
+1I myself would go for unlisted, unless the paintjob/variants are distinctive enough that they'd be the main focus.
+1M...mikoyan? Welcome back!
+5Zoggin' bootiful!
+1C H O N K
+1Errr... does anybody know if we can bring lead turret mode back? I mean, the 1.11 update allows for camera-aimed turrets but the lead indicator seems to be off... a lot.
+1@ZoaMiki Thanks... Although I just did a minor fix...
@ZoaMiki Thanks, Zoa!
+1You might want to hear about the Sea Dragon, a monstrosity only the 60s' America could envision...
The legend lives on from Chippawa home down♪
+3Of the great lake they call Gitche-Gumee♪
The lake it is said, never gives up her dead♪
When the skies of November turn gloomy♪
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more♪
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty♪
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed♪
When the gales of November came early♪
'Gratz on platz!
@RamboJutter IIRC the IRL Phantom have a rather... ahem, unique way of mounting the internal gun right beneath the droop nose...
+1Such a beauty.... also, no guns?
@Grob0s0VBRa ++ Frak, another Arch Magos with an illustrious career, forever lost to the tides of the empyrean. May Omnissiah forever bless his immortal soul. Gloria Omissiah. ++
+2Yup, aside from the fact that the brown pupper guy have literal antigravity systems and energy shields inside his planes (read: standard sparking dieselpunk bull-* [Censored] *), not too much of an issue. Keep up the good work, RJ!
+1.
... Also, does anybody know why Treadmill103 fell off the internet?
Smol B-17
Yuuka, good to see you again!
+1Good to see you again!
Awesome as always, Centuri!
+1@DrenasPort I thought only Avalon and Sadboye would say thanks to me fixing their tank? You're welcome anyways.
Farewell. Take your well-earned break. May the trade winds be always on your side. We'll patiently wait for your return.
... and Godspeed.
This is the way.
+5🎶~I look across the raging war and feel the steady beating of my heart~🎶
+1