Triple Comms Net! I'm all for that.
The Arrestor Cruiser
3 hours ago, Lobokai said:I’m not sure what my least favorite Star Wars ship was before... but I know what it is now.
Big fan of the Lancer Class Frigate were we?
4 hours ago, Noosh said:If it were a dog I'd have it walk backwards,
3 hours ago, WigTii said:From the Reddit thread:
The design is based on Colin Cantwell's concept art for a Star Destroyer.
The large dishes seem odd when thinking about Imperial design, but there is precedent for their inclusion.
The Citadel Tower from Rogue One blends Imperial angles and edges with the large circular dish located at the top of the structure.
And, the Imperial Listener Ship, which again blends hard angles and edges with softer round shapes.
I thin we're looking at something here around the size of a Gladiator SD, maybe slightly longer, specifically designed to capture small freighters and fighters at a longer range than what typical tractor beams allow. I can see it being used that way if the ship was brought into Armada; it would be a unique addition specifically suited for anti-squadron combat.
From that concept art, it does appear that Lucas made that design fly backward for the final ISD.
3 hours ago, cynanbloodbane said:Looks like it is probably about twice the size of an Arquitens. Probably would be just a bit longer than a GSD, but the Imps already have a glut of medium ships. While it is ugly, I think it is still "Star Wars ugly". As long as the dishes actually serve a purpose, I won't even mind them all that much. If they just there for unexplained design reasons. It is stupid.
There are plenty of absolutely ridiculous looking things that serve a purpose in a military. "Looking cool" is less important than completing the mission it was designed for. Although being stupid looking, if mission capable, hurts its chances of receiving the funding needed to bring it into widespread use.
Yeah, I don't get the hate. I mean, maybe it's just the model that is bugging people? The Hot Wheels nature of it does make it look a bit lame, but the art for it is just...that's extremely cool. I definitely dig this guy. It absolutely has that sort of 'utilitarian-military' feel to it.
I do hope the in-game implementation of it gives those dishes some cool kind of support capability. Maybe more Fleet Support upgrades, and on something other than a flotilla?
9 hours ago, svelok said:It's hideous, but it probably won't look quite as bad in a fleet, with the bigger ships giving it it's proper sense of scale, as in a vacuum.
Plus, it might bring Interdictor buffs to Armada.
Yea, it looks like the kind of thing that might bring more Experimental Retrofit Upgrades to the game.
Armada players are salty about Relay, and Star Wars says, "I hear you. Konstantine buff incoming."
Tractor beam ship huzzah!
(I hear you on the aesthetic. Looks like a Lego kit with its awkward perpendicular lines mixed with circles. Raw and not very polished.)
10 hours ago, Yosh6314 said:If this joins the game then maybe people will stop complaining about the looks of the beautiful fat assault frigates.
That would be a travesty. I have enough hatred for the horrid aesthetics of both.
2 hours ago, ryanabt said:That would be a travesty. I have enough hatred for the horrid aesthetics of both.
the AF just suffers from a bad paintjob
That's better
I don't think this looks bad at all.
I think it looks very retro sci-fi. It honestly has more character than a lot of new Michael Bay style science fiction spaceships that have so many different parts that it becomes impossible to even recognize their silhouettes. This, on the other hand, is IMMEDIATELY recognizable, and that ugliness is charming.
Edited by DerFurst12 minutes ago, Muelmuel said:the AF just suffers from a bad paintjob
That's better
Its a goldfish, not an orca!
26 minutes ago, Muelmuel said:the AF just suffers from a bad paintjob
That's better
While better, it still suffers, IMO, from just not looking like Star Wars. Too fat and round. Fins are weird.
I like the AFMKII.
This new thing though! *barf* Hopefully it gets destroyed before we see a close up.
That's the Russian navy equivalent to the Arrestor Cruiser.
I'll reserve jugment until I see the ship on screen, but for now it would be the ugliest ship in star wars cannon.
I literally thought that it was a suction cup toy ...
(and I see I wasn't alone ...)
Looking through the Cantwell Collection web site, the other concept art shows that the dishes were the main guns!
There's certainly precedent.
12 hours ago, GrandAdmiralCrunch said:
From that concept art, it does appear that Lucas made that design fly backward for the final ISD.
although the 'fighters' its launched could also claim the honour of being an early design of the final ISD.... nice flying triangles
19 minutes ago, elbmc1969 said:Looking through the Cantwell Collection web site, the other concept art shows that the dishes were the main guns!
There's certainly precedent.
Hadn’t thought about that
16 hours ago, WigTii said:From the Reddit thread:
The design is based on Colin Cantwell's concept art for a Star Destroyer.
The large dishes seem odd when thinking about Imperial design, but there is precedent for their inclusion.
The Citadel Tower from Rogue One blends Imperial angles and edges with the large circular dish located at the top of the structure.
And, the Imperial Listener Ship, which again blends hard angles and edges with softer round shapes.
I think we're looking at something here around the size of a Gladiator SD, maybe slightly longer, specifically designed to capture small freighters and fighters at a longer range than what typical tractor beams allow. I can see it being used that way if the ship was brought into Armada; it would be a unique addition specifically suited for anti-squadron combat.
Great you found even more ugly ships/designs with dishes.
I would guess from the name it is some kind of Interdictor style ship, but smaller.
It is ugly, but it isn't that bad. Remember this is a setting that has brought us many ugly (and I would argue uglier) ships. Eg:
OK, I will admit my main objection to this one is the stupid ugly way they carry their fighters... and they claim to call these "Assault Carriers"? What about "Intergalactic clown car"?:
This one is just... wrong on some level I can't quite identify. It doesn't seem to look that bad, but it just offends me somehow:
And obviously the king of ugly Star Wars ships, the K-Wing. Jesus who would put together such an ugly pile of wrongness, all at the same time as ignoring all the rules of Star Wars ship design (External missle racks? And what are those other... things? Mini engines? And what poor sucker has to man that hideously exposed turret? And are they stuck there for the entire flight? How do they even get out?:
14 hours ago, GrandAdmiralCrunch said:
From that concept art, it does appear that Lucas made that design fly backward for the final ISD.
Their are too **** many dishes, on this mutha f***king ship! But lets be honest here, thats a rejected desing for the ISD. Thats okay, but I vote we should keep it that way. It dosent sream 'imposing' or even AWACS to me, the only thing il be thinking of when i see it (and im sure subsecuently blow up) "Well, there gose HBO again."
Also....
YOU GET A RADAR DISH! AND YOU GET A RADAR DISH! EVERYBODY GETS A RADAR DISH!
2 hours ago, elbmc1969 said:Looking through the Cantwell Collection web site, the other concept art shows that the dishes were the main guns!
There's certainly precedent.
HMmmmmmmm..... And those dishes look like they can swivel. Mobile firing arcs on the arrestor cruiser? Sounds like armada has a new mechanic incoming....
6 hours ago, Nyxen said:Its a goldfish, not an orca!
Hmm, I have never seen a goldfish version though. Paint one and post it up on Painting and Modicification!
The imperials were simply thanking that spy from ANH by modelling a ship after him.
