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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] I'm glad you like it, you're the reason it's even here. :.) Got a front view coming up, might add some comparison ships from other universes, too. [QUOTE]First, I'd spread the weapons out a bit- never a good idea to clump everything together if you dont have to- do they not have area of effect weapons like Nukes?[/QUOTE]I've played around with spreading the armament out more, but putting side-firing stuff in the stern interrupted with the chase armament, and side-weapons in the nose felt like it made the visual shape of the entire nose ambiguous. If you look at the side view, you'll see the nose is thicker at the top, where it meets the hammerhead. That's the impeller generator. It gets clearer in the upcoming front view (you'll also get more detail on the hammerhead there). Honestly, I could easily have crammed in 200 launchers on each side, but that would A: have looked like a terminal case of "fanboyism", trying to build a ship that is mightier than all official designs, and B:, made the ship an over-pierced honeycomb, looking crushable like a taco. So I applied the "kill your darlings" approach and limited the weapons-bays to an area with thicker walls and close proximity to the centralized forward/aft ammunition rooms. About the missiles themselves, there are two warheads: nuclear missiles are the inferior version, each Honorverse ship only carries a low, necessary complement of them for practical purposes. The main warhead in battle uses a technology called "bomb-pumped laser" (yeah, suck on that bonbon for a while :.) Weber never elaborates on how the device works, not even the encyclopedias define them, but just using conjecture, the warhead detonates and this kinetic energy behaves like photonic energy and shoots out through a sort of gravitic lens housing ball, firing between ten to a hundred beams in all directions in the detonation zone, lacerating the target (the impact zones don't explode, though). There was a weapon in "Command&Conquer: Red Alert 2" that did this, IIRC. Anyway, this means that missiles fired close together in clusters have a higher effect and hit score tally, so ships in the Honorverse pack their launcher tubes together. It also helps in emulating the look of cannon groups in sail-era warships, which is never a bad thing. [QUOTE]Are the hammerhead and fin structures part of the drive system? I kinda hate pointless aerodynamics of spaceships.[/QUOTE]I do too, almost as much as animal shapes. The hammerheads are part of the impeller drive system, though. They act both like tuning forks and negative-charge magnets, no aero/hydrodynamic properties. Why I kept the back pair straight was because I could, because it was 10% more unexpected, and because I [URL=http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/xx150/arnkell_01/ch-46-sea-knight.jpg]love this[/URL]. When I was young'un, a JAS-39 Gripen crashed into a park before my eyes, in a swedish air show. Five minutes after that, a camouflage-colored CH-46 Sea Knight swooped in, scanned for the pilot, filmed the wreckage and the extent of the forest fire, while doing an extremely tight 90-degree turn, laying completely on its side and showing me its belly. It was the most awesome thing I'd ever seen, and aside from the giant rotors, the aft wing housing was the only thing my eyes could lock onto. So short, massive side pylons always held a feeling of power, authority and resolve, to me. [QUOTE]No need for "crossing the T" manuvers in space, after all. ;) [/QUOTE]What a funny coincedence, at first I thought you'd read up on Weber there. Actually, "crossing the T" is standard O.P. in Honorverse battles, so there is in deed still need for it. :.) Seriously, you should read just the first book, still my fav. It's short, intense and gratifying naval-wise. [QUOTE]Maybe add some weaponry on long boom arms to cover the shielded aspect[/QUOTE]Interesting, could you elaborate? Placed where? Also, let me be clear that my weapon artwork is only symbolical, grasers don't fire through triangle-holes in the hull, it was just so you guys could tell them apart, like on a blueprint. They can be made to look much cooler, protruding a bit through metal-frame mounts, but that level of detail would turn this 16-hour job into a 60-hour job. I'd have to do windows too. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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