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These are some images from my upcoming destroyer, it's slightly smaller than a behmoth and has no dock. The texture isn't finished (no windows, not seamless) yet.
The thing at the front is actually a massive cannon, from which the rail-gun like bullets will fire.
Designed to have the same role as the frigate in Gal Navy, only rarer.
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Looks pretty brutal! One thing, though: "destroyer", to me, suggests a relatively small ship used for general convoy duty and the like. Although this is smaller than a behemoth, given its unique armament maybe it needs a different name? Something like "ogre", maybe?
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ADCK wrote:
Click on pic for bigger view.

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These are some images from my upcoming destroyer, it's slightly smaller than a behmoth and has no dock. The texture isn't finished (no windows, not seamless) yet.
The thing at the front is actually a massive cannon, from which the rail-gun like bullets will fire.
Designed to have the same role as the frigate in Gal Navy, only rarer.
Same principal as the A-10 Thunderbolt - we have this gun and this much ammunition for it - please build an aeroplane around it...
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Disembodied wrote:
Looks pretty brutal! One thing, though: "destroyer", to me, suggests a relatively small ship used for general convoy duty and the like. Although this is smaller than a behemoth, given its unique armament maybe it needs a different name? Something like "ogre", maybe?
True a destroyer is a relatively small warship, although it's still larger than the frigates we already see on fleet duty. Escort duty would be more likely undertaken by frigate or corvette class ships.

Given it's intermediate size maybe some variant of "cruiser" might be an appropriate term?
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Scale is always a problem, the big problem in Behemoths is that the behemoths are relatively small ships, cause when you think in terms of modern sea ships, aircraft carriers are massive, some 100's of times larger than the aircraft they carry, while a behemoth is only about 10x larger than a cobra... Perhaps I should make a super-behemoth, thats 10x larger than the current behemoths :P
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True a destroyer is a relatively small warship, although it's still larger than the frigates we already see on fleet duty. Escort duty would be more likely undertaken by frigate or corvette class ships.

Given it's intermediate size maybe some variant of "cruiser" might be an appropriate term?
Again another scale problem, the Long-Range-Cruiser in my Bulk-Haulers OXP is something like 4x the size of a behemoth, and was considering retrofitting one of them for military use hehe.
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