Honorverse

Kana · #1 June 2nd, 2005, 02:27 AM

I know many of us have probably read books in the Honor Harrington series...

Has anyone started on any mod or models for this universe of space combat....?

Kana

Fyron · #2 June 2nd, 2005, 02:30 AM

I believe Phoenix-D had started work on a HH mod some time ago.

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 June 2nd, 2005, 03:16 AM

As a side note, said mod should never be mentioned to DW, as he would most probably then have to take legal action. He's serious about stuff like that; no fan fiction is allowed in his forum, nor does he read it. Stems from a case where a writer lost control of his works due to fan-fiction.

El_Phil · #4 June 2nd, 2005, 08:37 AM

Or just that seeing any fan fiction reminds him of how easy it is to knock out a HH plot:

Take a charcter who's never wrong, surround with senior officers/politicans who are wrong. Chuck in evil/incompetent/stupid liberals and a superior sized enemy. Leave to boil and then finish off with a large bloody space battles where random bridge officers die like flies and Honor wins just before the re-inforcements arrive.

Nothing wrong with that, I've found them well written and very readable. Tad predictable though.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #5 June 2nd, 2005, 03:06 PM

Well, here's a start.....

Kana · #6 June 3rd, 2005, 01:58 AM

Thank you...

It just seems that this style of combat, and other such science and background would fit well to a mod for SEIV or SEV....Yet another on my list...really enjoying the books right now...have hunted down a few websites with various info for background and such...

Kana

narf poit chez BOOM · #7 June 3rd, 2005, 03:10 AM

The Baen forums have tons of info. Also, www.thefifthimperium.com.

dogscoff · #8 June 3rd, 2005, 07:15 AM

Quote:

Kana said:
Thank you...

It just seems that this style of combat, and other such science and background would fit well to a mod for SEIV or SEV
Kana

Well, I can't comment on SE5, but it actually isn't well suited to se4 at all:
1- You can't mod missile pods or LACs properly, because units can't fire seekers in se4.
2- Although Honorverse does have some warp-point like objects in it, they rely heavily on "directional" FTL. Impossible in se4.
3- Due to the impeller wedge, Honorverse combat is all about firing angles and facings. Guess what: se4 don't do that.

Of course you can gloss over these restrictions and mod it anyway, but I don't think the end product will "feel" very Honorversey. It will just be basic se4 with the techs tweaked to give a different seeker/ beam/ fighter balance.
That said, it will probably come out closer to the Honorverse than Trek/SW mods are to their respective canons, so ignore me and do it anyway.

BTW, a forum search should yield at least one big long thread on this very subject.

Fyron · #9 June 3rd, 2005, 11:31 AM

Units can most certainly fire seekers in SE4.

dogscoff · #10 June 3rd, 2005, 12:39 PM

Ahhh, satellites 7 wep plats, of course.

Not fighters and drones though, surely.