Schlock Mercenary Shipset!

[Jack Simth]

Great shipset.
One question, though: did you get the artist's permission?
One minor comment on genra: Medium troop, small fighter, and battlecruiser are the wrong species (Ob'enn, rather than human) (although the comic has shown that most Ob'enn equipment is readily adaptable to human use).

[geoschmo]

Oh man, this shipset is worth downloading just for the fun of running some combat simulations and watching the ships blow up. BOOM!

[dogscoff]

Hooray! A Schlock set at Last! Fantastic stuff S_J. I agree with Jack though, You should take those O'Benn images out so that they can be used in a full psychobear shipset. *hint hint*

Also you should definitely let Howard know that his ships have been immortalised in se4 glory!

BTW, have you done the AI_speech file for this race? You could have hours (and hours and hours) of fun with that. I mean just quoting the seven effective habits would probably cover half the possible situations, while declarations of war/ threats of attack etc could be covered by nothing more than "Ominous hummm..."

Anyone who has no idea what I'm talking about/ what this shipset is taken from , go read www.schlockmercenary.com NOW! Start at the first episode and work your way forwards. You'll be glad you did.

*dogscoff takes a Strohm BH-250 out of his mouth and polishes it lovingly, while making more casual and not-at-all-threatening suggestions to S_J about a psychobear shipset. (It would be worth it just for the designname file: "Sceptre of Unrelenting Pain" etc)

[Yef]

Hiliarious.

I doubt anyone will use it in a game, but it was definitively worth the look.

[Timstone]

Why wouldn't someone use it in a game? We all have some degree of humour.

[Yef]

Timstone said:
Why wouldn't someone use it in a game? We all have some degree of humour.

It doesn't match with the style of the other shipsets.


I guess you were one of those kids that played with missmatching pLastic soldiers.

[Timstone]

How did you guess? I still have those lovely pink ones.

[Yef]

Timstone said:
How did you guess? I still have those lovely pink ones.

The pink legions always got firebombed (melted pLastic)

[dogscoff]

I'd use it in a game, definitely. I love the comic and I love the set.

OK S_J, next on your to-do list (after the psychobear set, of course) is a "Tagon's Toughs" scenario/mod, where the player starts with nothing but a single self-sufficient O'Benn Taussegenian Thunderhead Superfortress (with fabber and warp-opener), a few units of infantry, some mini-tanks and a troop transport. The rest of the map is occupied by established, well-teched, well-armed and mostly unfriendly AIs. Your mission is to take over the entire quadrant and build up the fleet necessary to finally destroy the gatekeepers' Buuthandi, or at the very least to share your portion of blam around the galaxy as evenly as possible (all for the right price, of course).

[Timstone]

Hahaha... your portion of blam. That really sounds cool.

*Dear diary, today I added a new exciting sentence to my vocabulary.*