I'm thinking of trying to mod one to look like the original design from KotOR, and maybe one to look like the one in Rogue One. Anyone else fancy an Endar Spire?
Who's gonna mod their Hammerheads?
Endar spire would require some pretty extensive reworks, but would be pretty fun. I think the hammerhead might get me to buy into a 3d printed mod kit to make them look like the Rogue One model as opposed to the Rebels ones.
Might have to split a Goz in half and glue it to the front of one.
Or glue one running into my ISD.
Hah!
That would be an awesome sight.
This was one thing that irked me about about the new wave article.
It was not "inspired" by Star Wars Rebels and/or Rogue One. It was in KotoR loooooooooong before Rebels or Rogue One was even a thing. They need to do better research next time. I read the same thing somewhere else. It's not a new ship.
2 hours ago, ElizLestrad said:This was one thing that irked me about about the new wave article.
It was not "inspired" by Star Wars Rebels and/or Rogue One. It was in KotoR loooooooooong before Rebels or Rogue One was even a thing. They need to do better research next time. I read the same thing somewhere else. It's not a new ship.
This is the same company who released the ISDI and ISDII as the same ship.....
14 minutes ago, Sharego said:
True, but the design line for hammerheads in star wars begin with the Kotor ships (there may have been earlier concept art that the Kotor ships were based off though.)
4 hours ago, ElizLestrad said:This was one thing that irked me about about the new wave article.
It was not "inspired" by Star Wars Rebels and/or Rogue One. It was in KotoR loooooooooong before Rebels or Rogue One was even a thing. They need to do better research next time. I read the same thing somewhere else. It's not a new ship.
I think what it meant was that Rebels/Rogue One inspired FFG to add them to the game. I mean yes, the ships existed in KoToR, but that was what, 1000 years before Rebels? They can't include a ship from that far back in the past in the Civil War era if it is not seen to be used in that time period.
5 hours ago, ElizLestrad said:This was one thing that irked me about about the new wave article.
It was not "inspired" by Star Wars Rebels and/or Rogue One. It was in KotoR loooooooooong before Rebels or Rogue One was even a thing. They need to do better research next time. I read the same thing somewhere else. It's not a new ship.
Funny you didnt do your research well...
4 minutes ago, NobodyInParticular said:I think what it meant was that Rebels/Rogue One inspired FFG to add them to the game. I mean yes, the ships existed in KoToR, but that was what, 1000 years before Rebels? They can't include a ship from that far back in the past in the Civil War era if it is not seen to be used in that time period.
It was FFG who chose to use the word "inspired" though, to be fair. It was clearly inspired by KotOR.
18 hours ago, Undeadguy said:Might have to split a Goz in half and glue it to the front of one.
Or glue one running into my ISD.
Don't be silly. You need to glue it to somebody else's ISD!
12 minutes ago, mazz0 said:It was FFG who chose to use the word "inspired" though, to be fair. It was clearly inspired by KotOR.
Just to make sure we are seeing the same line:
'Inspired by Star Wars Rebels and Rogue One, the expansions give us three new ships'
I took this to mean the expansions were inspired by R/RO, not the ships. I don't remember the terms exactly, but isn't the word 'expansions' the subject of the sentence? So if you rearranged it like so:
The expansions, inspired by R/RO, give us three new ships
It may become more clear. I think it implies that it wasn't the ships which inspired the expansions, but the show and movie that inspired FFG to make those ships into expansions. So the ships could have been around for years but FFG didn't add them because they weren't inspired to do so.
Edited by NobodyInParticularI'm gonna mod my Hammerhead to reflect Rogue One by gluing and ISD to the front of it. I'll probably need to glue dark matter to the small base to keep it up right though...
Give it time, they will milk the rogue one version and put it out in a later wave.
Fragile version...then a heavily armed gunship version.
10 hours ago, ElizLestrad said:This was one thing that irked me about about the new wave article.
It was not "inspired" by Star Wars Rebels and/or Rogue One. It was in KotoR loooooooooong before Rebels or Rogue One was even a thing. They need to do better research next time. I read the same thing somewhere else. It's not a new ship.
The Hammerhead CORVETTE was featured in Rebels and Rogue One. This ship inspired the expansion pack. That corvette was, in turn, inspired by the Hammerhead CRUISER of kotor/swtor fame.
Unless you really think that even with a sliding scale, a 300+ meter cruiser should be represented by a miniature smaller than the one that represents the 125ish meter CR-90...
One of mine is definitely gonna get external racks put on. I got oodles of rocket pods in my scrap pieces box
19 hours ago, Gadgetron said:True, but the design line for hammerheads in star wars begin with the Kotor ships (there may have been earlier concept art that the Kotor ships were based off though.)
Precisely.
11 hours ago, FatherTurin said:The Hammerhead CORVETTE was featured in Rebels and Rogue One. This ship inspired the expansion pack. That corvette was, in turn, inspired by the Hammerhead CRUISER of kotor/swtor fame.
Thank you for affirming my point, even though I'm sure you didn't mean to ^_^.
Bottomline, the Hammerhead (as in the line, not the individual ship) started with KotoR. The class of ship itself is completely irrelevant to the discussion..
Edited by ElizLestradWhy mod... when there are other options...
15 hours ago, melminiatures said:Why mod... when there are other options...
Any thoughts on releasing a kotor inspired version of the hammerhead?
On 18/03/2017 at 7:27 AM, melminiatures said:Why mod... when there are other options...
Cos I'd have to paint your babies! That said, it is something I'm considering. Do you do the KOTOR design but in Rebels size?
On 3/17/2017 at 0:33 AM, Gadgetron said:This is the same company who released the ISDI and ISDII as the same ship.....
To be frank, before Rogue One, nobody cared. There's plenty of instances of the ESB high-def model pictures being used to depict what we're told is an Imperial-I. So why should FFG care when nobody else did before?
The reason I noticed is because I like the little detail differences in the ISD-I, especially the tall bridge tower and larger turrets. And I always regretted this design was sidelined because this configuration appeared in all of four scenes in A New Hope (Tantive Battle, after Tantive Battle, chasing the falcon away from Tattooine, approaching the Death Star).
I already have a conversion kit for Mel on the way to port over my third ISD, because reasons.
On the matter of the Hammerhead though, after Rogue One I was curious what version of the ship FFG would use for this, the Rebels one or the Rogue One version. They took out the cargo platform though, which was my strongest objection of the Rebels model.
2 hours ago, Norsehound said:To be frank, before Rogue One, nobody cared. There's plenty of instances of the ESB high-def model pictures being used to depict what we're told is an Imperial-I. So why should FFG care when nobody else did before?
If you (not you in particular, but in general) were even slightly a Star Wars fan, you knew there were two different Star Destroyer models, the ISD-I and ISD-II, this was common knowledge back in the EU (when this game was developed). Rogue Ones release made no difference there, what it DID do, is now Disney has an official CGI rendering for the exact canon dimensions of an ISD-I FFG can use to create two distinct large ships. They only need to update a few titles in the FAQ to read ISDI or ISDII. Then update all future ISDII box releases with the appropriate cards.
On 3/17/2017 at 6:25 AM, NobodyInParticular said:I think what it meant was that Rebels/Rogue One inspired FFG to add them to the game. I mean yes, the ships existed in KoToR, but that was what, 1000 years before Rebels? They can't include a ship from that far back in the past in the Civil War era if it is not seen to be used in that time period.
That and let's face it, marketing is not aimed at the star wars fans who will nit pick this stuff, they are already playing the game and unlikely to go anywhere. Marketing is to attract new people. A tie in with a new movie people may have enjoyed, that's some good pitch. Draw the lines, bring back the warm thoughts. While the preview portions of the articles are geared at the players, the pitch most certainly is not.
Edited by Darthain6 hours ago, Gadgetron said:If you (not you in particular, but in general) were even slightly a Star Wars fan, you knew there were two different Star Destroyer models, the ISD-I and ISD-II, this was common knowledge back in the EU (when this game was developed). Rogue Ones release made no difference there, what it DID do, is now Disney has an official CGI rendering for the exact canon dimensions of an ISD-I FFG can use to create two distinct large ships. They only need to update a few titles in the FAQ to read ISDI or ISDII. Then update all future ISDII box releases with the appropriate cards.
Yes, but if you were a producer of star wars material responsible for making artwork, if you tasked the team to depict a "star destroyer", it was always a II, regardless if the writers were writing about ISD-Is. Nobody in authority cares, a "Star Destroyer" was the high def ESB ISD-II one.
I mean, it's telling when to get to the original ISD-I configuration, you need a modification kit to change what comes out of the box.