Mind telling us your evil plans on ship designs for the Remnants and Hegemony?

If he told you that, he would have to kill you.

Design-wise, I do have all three factions pegged down, its all a matter of individual ship designs now. The Remnant, for example should look like they are cheap and mass-produced. So there will be no frills, no curvy designs, just slabs of metal armor plating, hull wiring and habitation bulkheads slapped together. But on the other hand they also need to follow some sort of practical but aesthetic design scheme. If you look at WWII naval ships, especially US destroyers you will know what I mean. They were built all business-like, but they weren't exactly floating tubs either. There is a kind of overall elegance to them. That's what I will be aiming for with the Remnant designs.

And no, they won't look like naval ships in space.

Something like that.

The Overlord is finally done, and to comemorate the birth of the second Xin capital ship, here is a bit of a wallpaper-ish art I slapped together this afternoon. Hope you like it! And if you do, spread the word. This mod needs a bit of advertizing.

Tomorrow I'll rig it up for the game and hopefully have some nifty action shots by Sunday!

funny... the overlord and the carrier look supiciously similar

That is probably because the Overlord *is* the carrier...

Mr_Blunt3d, I already took a look at Halo ships at the beginning of this mod's development. To be honest, I have mixed feelings about the designs... I love the Covenant shapes, though I prefer to keep my ships as original as possible. On the other hand, the UNSC ships look to me like a complete lack of imagination. Blocky design is one thing, but one look at EvE's Caldari designs shows you how far you can go with it...

Well yeah, there are some examples of... explosions waiting to happen, but overall their design seems pretty good to me. Wathcing Halo Wars trailers I continue to be amazed at how good the Covenant ships look and how... well, bland and run-of-the-mill the UNSC ships feel. But I'll stop bashing other people's work... I still have to show what *I* can do, words are cheap.

When you see the Ravager (siege class), you won't make that mistake again.

Speaking of which, how does the slow-firing beam-of-death sound? I am working on the siege capital right now, and in adition to the usual array of plasma weapons, I would like to give it a sort of a tactical ability which costs power (anti-matter will be replaced with more generic "power" and credits with "supplies" - Xin have no use for money, for example) and thus can be fired only a certain amount of times, but is powerful enough to, for example, rip a minor ship in half. It could be used against ships, but its primary purpose would be to soften up big, tough targets. Like starbases. Did I mention it would be long-range as well?

One of my fondest memories in RTS gaming was the absolute panic I felt when I realised sneaky orcs managed to haul a catapult or two close to my village in the original Warcraft. That thing made your knights go positively splat... I'd like to recreate the feeling with the Ravager... sort of "ohshit, its a Ravager, getit getit getit before it comes too close!"

Minus the ultra-tough mode, methinks. Perhaps buffing out damage considerably, but making the ship extremely slow. While it won't be nearly as tough as a battleship, it will be tougher than your average capital ship... buffing that might make it very difficult to counter.

But yeah, no self-respecting RTS or game with RTS elements can do without its own version of a trebuchet.

Ooops, nice catch there. I really have to put together the name list...

Actually, that's a pretty good idea. I'll definitely include this when the official site goes live.

Wait untill you see it - then you'll see why it took so long to build.

I bet they say that all the time in Italy too.