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Currently trying to wrap my head around Fall of the Republic. I remember playing Corey's mods almost a decade ago and they were nowhere near as robust as this. There's a fuckton of new mechanics to the point I feel like I'm relearning the game entirely. Trying to play as CIS but I'm getting my ass kicked.
I'm kinda thinking about going back to the original Republic at War just for the classic gameplay of steamrolling everything with a deathstack until you encounter the enemy deathstack.

What are some underrated mods for this game? Also, EaW thread I guess.
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>>1889256
Super hyped for Reven's Revenge. I guess the only underrated mod would be the Stargate one, if that counts.
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>>1889256
I like all the new mechanics they give me much more goals to reach for than just building up deathstacks.
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>>1890185
I only learned about it yesterday. The madman is actually already making another expansion mod.

If Disney/Petroglyph won't hire him then why doesn't he make his own game at this point?
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>>1890406
Yea. Corey is currently doing a preview play-through of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXYUambLlfo&t=3s
Also did a video showcasing some of the features. It's looking great so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dfqt7aqoZo
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>>1890406
>why doesn't he make his own game at this point?
because he wants to do star wars and anything original will get C&D'd immediately like the kotor remake. Not the one announced by goyslop inc, the fanmade one in unreal engine that got C&D'd (most likely because the greedy kikes already planned their own goyslopified version)
also, the difference between modding a game and making a game is like the difference between old trilogy and nu-wars. Incomprehensibly gargantuan
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>>1890721
Also, they would have to start from scratch like Vol'Talkes did, and no-one gives a shit about some star wars modders' OC setting unless you make a porn game.
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>>1890721
>old trilogy
But there are two old trilogies.
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Genuinely baffled that the Empire at War devs are still updating the game, fixing bugs and accommodating modders. Wish more developers cared about their old games like this.
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>>1890774
>original trilogy
4-6
>saga
1-3
>nu-wars goyslop by tacobell®
7-9
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>>1890975
I'm pretty sure it was just a one-off updating the exe to run with x64. And it was probably someone higher up seeing Corey's work and having a human soul inside their body.
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>>1891004
They've been doing it for a while now, actually. The most notable one was the Steam Workshop update a few years ago.
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>>1890975
It's because Empire at War is still one of Petroglyph's most profitable games.
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>>1891087
>a few years ago.
wouldn't call that "still updating the game, fixing bugs and accommodating modders". Just one-off bringing up to modern standard, which is still far better than what most games get these days
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>>1891299
they release about one patch a year with the latest one being released a month ago
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>>1889256
Do you guys know if heroes in eaw provide their buffs to ships if I jump them in after or do they have to be jumped in BEFORE I deploy other ships for those ships to receive their buffs?
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>>1892535
In vanilla EaW/FoC? Pretty sure it's applied as long as the character is on the battlefield, no matter if at the start or dropped in.
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>>1891004
Last patch was small but pretty substantial for modders.
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>>1890185
Same. The Sith Interdictor is one of my favorite ships and I look forward to spamming them.
>>1889256
It's a steep learning curve but once you figure it out the game is fun as hell. CIS works differently than the Republic, but basically you just just need to invest in different corporations to unlock more planets for them. As far as combat goes it depends on how you want to
play it.
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>>1892998
>Interdictor
For me its the Hammerhead. Such a pretty design. Will be playing Mandos first though.
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>>1892998
>It's a steep learning curve
It honestly threw me for a loop. It feels so much different than vanilla. I'm impressed by how dynamic and sometimes cinematic galactic conquest feels now.
But FUCK ME, man the AI feels way more relentless. I can't even have a minute of peace to move my fleets around and plan my infrastructure. Really wish you could issue move orders while paused but it's probably hard coded into the engine that you can't.
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>>1893699
What difficulty are you on? I play on normal just to chill after work and it's hard to lose. Not saying that to put you down or anything but it does take time to get gud. It can help to do hit and run attacks, like to kill an enemy shipyard, retreat, then hit them again to whittle the enemy down.
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>>1893699
you need to master the pause button. It's the only gookclick aspect of the game. Sucks dick but no one bothered to fix it
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>>1893706
I'm on Captain difficulty which I assume is normal. It just feels like every victory is followed by two setbacks because I'm not quick enough with managing economy and infrastructure before another front is opened up.
>It can help to do hit and run attacks, like to kill an enemy shipyard, retreat, then hit them again to whittle the enemy down
I've resorted to cheesing it with fighters. Deploy carriers, send in tsunami of fighters at enemy fleet, kill one or two ships, retreat before they reach the carriers, repeat until system is captured.
In turn ground battles don't feel anywhere near as tough. I rarely have to break away from the select all into attack move towards enemy base tactic with force sensitives and an unlimited supply of B1s.
>>1893742
Playing it made me realise how much I take Total War's 0.5x speed for granted.
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>>1894111
>It just feels like every victory is followed by two setbacks because I'm not quick enough with managing economy and infrastructure before another front is opened up.
Have you tried adjusting the game speed? There's separate sliders for tactical ground/space section and for the galactic map section.
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>>1893699
>I can't even have a minute of peace to move my fleets around and plan my infrastructure
Use the pause button and reduce campaign speed. It's unbearable otherwise.

>>1894111
One thing that might help your fleet micro is using control groups. I found them useless in TW, but in Empire at War they feel essential.
EaWX fleet sizes are so massive, and AOTR fleets are so micro-intensive, that you really have to use control groups if you want a chance with them.
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>>1894703
>One thing that might help your fleet micro is using control groups.
This. Probably just my autism but I find the following to work best in space battles:
>Group 1 is the main gunline of my fleet (SSD, main capital ships)
>Group 2 is my secondary gunline (Capitals if there's an SSD present, heavy cruisers/frigates if main gunline is capital ships)
>Group 3 is always my point defense escorts. keep them between my gunline and the enemy fleet
>Group 4 is usally support ships like tenders to move them where needed
>Group 5 left open for damaged ships that need pulled back. If a Victory's shields go down, assigned it to group 5 and order it to the rear of the map
>Group 6 is fighters
>Group 7 is interceptors
>Group 8 is bombers
>Group 9 is 2nd group of bombers
>Group 0 is either my vanguard (smallest possible ship that can jump to lightspeed) or my interdictor. Group 0 always jumps in 1st so the rest of the fleet can be positioned as I like
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>>1894914
Another thing is to pay attention a unit's speed. I wouldn't group a Dreadnought cruiser with 2.5 speed up with a group of ISDs with 3.0 speed. ISDs would be in group 1, Dreadnought(s) would be in group 2. A lot of times I'll wait for the fast ships to engage the enemy and then jump in my slow ships into the line of battle.

Move orders are important too. If you have a mass of ships selected and tell them all to move to a point, they'll all move at their own speeds. But if you give them a special move order (don't know the word for it, but where you drag your mouse to make an arrow) they will all move at the speed of the slowest ship. This prevents your fleet from losing cohesion and getting picked off individually.
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>>1894916
Another trick is to use the map to your advantage
>map has a nebula/asteroid field in the center
>capital ships will avoid this and go around it
>jump your fleet in near this obstacle, opposite side of the enemy fleet
>the enemy fleet will generally split up to go around it, dividing their forces
>go after whichever half is the weakest
>I generally go after whichever side has the fewest escorts so that my bombers are more effective
>now that the enemy is split you can mop them up piecemeal
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>>1894921
As for ground combat, it depends on your faction and playstyle. In general though I've found a few things to be my go-tos:
>hold down a chokepoint with infantry and turrets, and sensor nodes while having 4-5 artillery unites behind the lines just bomb everything
>go all in on gunships and rush the enemy base to destroy key buildings then mop up enemy units
>elephant walk a group of heavy army straight through the map toward the enemy base, preferably unites that can deploy their own infantry
>almost always build the command post that spawns medics since they repair both infantry and vehicles.
>I don't use hero units that often as I prefer to use them more as markers so I don't lose/forget a fleet/army on the galactic map, but when I do use them it's generally to counter enemy heros. artillery works well for this too though.
>something I didn't realize for the longest time was that stealth units can actually attack an occupied planet without engaging the fleet. You can send stealth units in to a weakly held planet and steal it out from under the enemy, then jump a fleet in to mop up the orbitals.
Overall though artillery is king, but by lategame I usually just build doomstacks and autocomplete ground battles unless it's a climactic battle or a map I particularly like
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>>1890406
based and RTSpilled
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>>1889256
>Still no cracked updated version
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>>1894914
I do the exact same thing, though I tend to put more of my micro into ship tonnages than fighters in TR.
>1 is big tank (SSD or battlecruiser)
>2 is capitals
>3 is heavy frigates (victory-2s, procursators, etc)
>4 is artillery
>5 is carriers
>6 is small frigates and anti-capital corvettes
>7 is point defense
>8 is fighters
>9 is bombers
>0 is interdictors
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>>1892535
I think they get the bonus regardless of when they are brought in. The most problematic aspect is I don't think their bonus applies to themselves. This is frustrating if a leader is in a super star destroyer since they don't get their own bonus. You'd need to bring in a second leader to boost the SSD.
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>>1892998

I like the even more ancient Sith/republic designs. I hope we get some smaller scenarios where we can fight the conflict between Naga Sadow and the Old Republic, the Krath, and the forces of Exar Kun.
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>>1897148
those Sith ships are indeed pretty cool. Seems like they will be some sort of carrier in the game.
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>>1897211
I also like the Krath Supremacy class attack ship from the same era.
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Think we'll see this bad boy in a Thrawn's Revenge update?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Eyqv5V0gs
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>>1897486
Which faction should they go to?
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>>1898725
imperial blastboats? rebellion or hapes obviously
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>>1897148
>>1897211
>>1897454
The GHW had some fantastic designs, and it's a shame we'll most likely never see a mod centered around it.
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>>1890406

Not only that, he's planning a 4th expansion mod for the early GCW period covering the OT period.
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>>1898877
I'm a little hesitant for that one.
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>>1898879

It's far out enough that I'm withholding judgment, but I'm erring on the side of optimism simply on the quality of TR and FOTR.

But I get where you're coming from. EaW just can't really capture an asymmetrical guerilla war well.
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>>1898981
>EaW just can't really capture an asymmetrical guerilla war well.
There's that point you brought up, but I was more concerned with how they would make not make it like be TR, but with steamroller Empire. I feel like their current docket is solid, but this one is out there for me.
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>>1898981
>EaW just can't really capture an asymmetrical guerilla war well
AOTR does it somewhat decently, and I think they even have a submod which goes even further into the asymmetrical guerilla war aspects. Where EAWX would really struggle is the fact that small ships and fighters can't change the face of a battle in it, instead serving as force multipliers for the big battleships. Asymmetrical guerilla warfare only works if small ships and fighters can actually carry a battle.
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>>1899032
Small ships kinda work only if you swarm them en mass and have some tenders to help, but yeah they're mostly fodder to protect even my lowly VSD and Bulwark Mk Is.
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>>1897486
Aren't they already in? I think that the Corporate Sector has them in their fighter roster.
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>>1899161
The Corporate Sector and all the Imperial factions have them all albeit various models. Eriadu and Maldrood have the oldest variant, Zsinj and the mainline Empire have the middle ground while the PA has the newest version.
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>>1889256
How does infrastructure work, I'm having to waste all my money on the building that gives +1 and am still in the negative. Do the buildings create infrastructure like money that stockpiles or does it compare to a hidden number like number of planets/2? Are there any other buildings that create it?
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>>1900272
IIRC the way infrastructure works in the most current version is that it's a measure of how many building slots you have empty over the total amount of slots, from across all your planets. The more you fill all your planets out, the higher your infrastructure score is.
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>>1900289
Thanks will have to break -35. I guess the galactic history's can record it as the B1s going on strike.
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>>1900272
It's a measure of all your building slots. Basically, you want to invest in tax agencies, shipyards, and unit producing buildings because it gives you infrastructure. Fundamentally, it's an anti-blobbing mechanic to force you to develop your planets rather than blitz aimlessly.
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Want to play Empire at War again, but can't figure out which mod I feel like playing. I've pretty much played every AOTR campaign but Black Sun (which I tend to do poorly in because of its economy), and EaWX feels a bit too easy even with Cruel AI.

Any recommendations other than Remake?
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>>1901497
Maybe try the Stargate mod?
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Anyone have tips for ground combat when playing Greater Maldrood/New Republic in Thrawn's revenge? I absolutely adore their ship rosters but I can't for the life of me figure out to win on the ground without heavy attrition.

I miss having either a fat tanky boy up front or in the case of NR, having a good aerial harrasser. T4Bs die too easily and losing just one means you lose the entire unit.
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>>1902069
I don't know much about GM since I only played a few space skirmish matches with them, but from what I've heard their mostly about light vehicle blitzkriegs.

For NR, they are essentially a jack of all trades faction, though their best parts are strong infantry mixed with great light vehicles and a strong air unit. T4-B's are moreso an infantry support tank. I would advise bringing some heavy tractors due to their ping ability and some SRV-1's to help out while the jedi heals are on cooldown. Basically try to combine steamrolling with infantry armies and harassment with your lighter vehicles. The AAC-2 is probably one of the best hit and run units in the game if you can micro them, though you can make almost any composition work.

One other thing worth noting about NR is their heroes. The jedi ones, Luke in particular, are some of the strongest ground heroes in the mod. For Luke, you can practically build an entire ground army around him. As long as you don't do anything stupid, he's practically unstoppable as long as he gets some support. Most of them are also stealth heroes, so its not unfeasable to use them on their own to take out some backline planets.
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>>1901497
Republic at War is close to vanilla gameplay, but might be a decent challenge at higher difficulties.
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>>1902069
>GM Ground
Mobile repair tractors and A5 Juggernauts will be your friend.
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>>1902162
>>1902206
Thanks, I'll try that. I suck dicks at microing fast ground units and resort to AT-ATs with artillery and dropship support half the time.
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>>1902236
Pause button is your friend if it gets too hard. Alternatively, you can just get more arty and build for a more steamroll-y infantry build. Jedi healing is much stronger then you'd think.
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>>1902069
I'm your literal inverse for GM. Hate their ship roster (luv me battlecruisers), love their ground roster.
GM is the fast attack faction. My general army comp with them is MAATs, 2-M tanks, repair trucks, swamp speeders, and commandos. Use the commandos and MAATs to take a command point for full army cap, then drop in the armor. Tanks have both shields and armor, so they're fairly durable. Just make sure to send them to the repair trucks when they get low.

Once you learn to micro shields and armor, you'll find GM is the most fun faction for taking planets because it's so fast and responsive (particularly makes cleaning up at the end less painful).
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>>1902236
The landing pad infantry bases help out a lot. Gives me some extra screening infantry and in Zsinj's case, more fire power to back my invasion force.
>>1902290
I could never get a really big GM navy going since I'm getting bumrushed by everyone from Zsinj to the Hutts. The moment I want to expand further some chuckle fuck wants to take aworld or two from me.
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>>1903019
>I could never get a really big GM navy going since I'm getting bumrushed by everyone from Zsinj to the Hutts
You want to focus on preserving your economy and creating choke points. Hypervelocity guns can go a long way. In time, your economy will get strong enough to sustain a war machine and you can go on the offensive for real.
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This ship is cool. Is it canon or fanfic?
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>>1903768
It's canon, even in the disneyverse thanks to FFG
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>>1903768
Is that rebel? I never seen the Empire giving their looks an extra flair.
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>>1905217
CW era Republic.
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>>1903768
>what if venator... but beeg
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>>1905289
Wait until you learn about ISD but beeg and no hangar, or ISD but smaller and bridge growths.
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>>1905318
ISD is a perfect design so no shit it has plenty of variations, that other ship is just venator with all its design flaws but beeg
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>>1905289
The entire point is that it was a proto-ISD that got scrapped because it was a poor design. Same reason it almost never appears in games.
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>>1905289
Anon...
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>>1905434
Executor is very different from ISDs. And it's based as fuck.
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>>1905432
All star destroyers are bad designs thoughever
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>>1903768
The model is made for the mod, but the Maelstrom existed in both Legends and Disney lore as RPG splat material.
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>>1905434
The Executor is just "what if we took the Star Destroyer and put a whole city on it?".
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>>1905471
care to elaborate? You don't really get more efficient than ISD arrowhead/sword tip design
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>>1905516
It is a pretty old set of criticisms:
>has an underside and a topside when 3D spacial movement renders such concepts irrelevent
>doesn't have directional thrusters
>bridge is on the side of the ship on the outside and exposed
>gun batteries are also concentrated at the top side and not arround it
>no point defense against tiny fighters
Plus some people always insist that perfect spheres, oval shapes, or cylinders is the best but the arrowhead shape allows for maximized weapon coverage when those shapes do not but most people are obsessed with mobility designs. Personally I do not care about these kinds of things anymore but some people will still see the Destroyer as essentially a glorified boat.
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>>1905564
>has an underside and a topside when 3D spacial movement renders such concepts irrelevent
so where in 3D space do you place a fighter hangar?
>doesn't have directional thrusters
literally half of the design is directional thrusters in the back
>bridge is on the side of the ship on the outside and exposed
valid point but you could just hide it inside the main hull
>gun batteries are also concentrated at the top side and not arround it
majority of batteries are on the top side, but some are on the sides and bottom
>no point defense against tiny fighters
you're carrying a ton of fighters to do this job
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>>1905566
>so where in 3D space do you place a fighter hangar?
the republic era ones had them on the sides
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>>1905567
and its a design flaw that allows 360 degree attack angles. ISDs have hangars on the very bottom in the center precisely to alleviate that flaw
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>>1905566
>so where in 3D space do you place a fighter hangar?
Missile tubes. it is in space so you can just turn off the artificial gravity and just launch them out. Receiving them is more tricky but generally speaking fighters do not need any space to leave the ship. This is ignoring that fighters are not really practical since in space 250,000 kilometers cubed is knife fighting distance and real life fighters would just be replaced with suicide drones aka cruise missiles.

>majority of batteries are on the top side, but some are on the sides and bottom
That is still not an even spread. Practically half the ship is incapable of doing anything because it is completely underutilized space for firepower.
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>>1905708
>underutilized space
It's not as bad as it seems. Putting all the guns on top means that they can dish out their entire firepower from one area. Sure, having firing arcs everywhere is good, but you can't get as much of it at once potentially.
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>>1905738
Anon, arrowhead shapes are sloped meaning you can just stack all that shit without and the firing lines of all the guns will concentrate into a killer death cone. Putting them on an even distribution means they still have their entire firepower available for all their guns in a wide front cone AND they have concentrated firepower to their sides, up, and down. The Destroyer has a massive blindspot a proper arrowhead configuration shouldn't have for full 3D movement.
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>>1905516
Even in the lore SDs have major problems for two major reasons.

1. Bridge is tremendously exposed, completely unnecessarily.
2. While the stepped pyramid design theoretically allows multiple turbolaser batteries to focus ahead, in reality star wars combat almost always devolves into broadsiding and SDs are significantly worse at this than their counterparts. While other ships(most notably mon cals) can roll and still maintain at least 50% of their firepower on target while rotating shields, SDs lose huge firepower if they go belly up, on top of revealing the hangar and power generator weakpoints.

SDs look cool, iconic even, but they simply don't work very well. The overwhelming majority of star wars designs are tubular vessels(carrack, dreadnought, mon cal etc), which present a slimmer, more compact shield field and more overlapping weapons. SDs also suffer from being all-rounders, devoting huge amounts of space and resources to their stormtrooper and ground assault capabilities which impact their cost, maintenance and space combat efficiency.
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>>1905566
>so where in 3D space do you place a fighter hangar?

I really, really wish more sci-fi used battlestar galactica style launch tubes. Recovery is not so simple, and I hate battlestar's enormous extending pontoons/sponsons. Just imagine the weight and complexity of all those moving parts! Instead, some kind of crossing landing strip system like this would allow ships to just fly into the hull and then catch arrestor hooks/nets/ just stop with repulsorlifts. Horizontal launch tubes mean you can launch a lot of craft very fast and the tubes can have armored doors when not in use.

red = launch and land
blue = engines
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>>1905755
Damn I forgor the mspaint
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>>1905708
>Missile tubes. it is in space so you can just turn off the artificial gravity and just launch them out. Receiving them is more tricky but generally speaking fighters do not need any space to leave the ship
alright, but the hangar isn't *just* for launching and receiving fighters, it's also for troop transportation and millenium falcon capturing
AT-AT barges won't fit in missile tubes
>That is still not an even spread.
why do you want an even spread instead of directionally concentrating maximum firepower?
>Practically half the ship is incapable of doing anything because it is completely underutilized space for firepower.
when you turn the arrow tip towards the enemy, all ship batteries are firing at the target
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>>1905754
>Bridge is tremendously exposed, completely unnecessarily.
true, rule of cool
>in reality star wars combat almost always devolves into broadsiding
>in reality
anon this shit is entirely made up in lucas' mind, in Empire at War you can easily turn all your ships facing toward the enemy. If you have overwhelming numbers, no amount of batteries even in the most efficient spacing will handle the danger
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>Finish the CIS historical campaign
>Conquer Coruscant, destroy the jedi temple
>Anakin, Yoda, Obi-wan all die in the siege
>Not sure what will happen, since they are supposed to lose
>Fucking Palpatine kills Dooku and the ruling council, and still turns the CIS into the Empire.
Ngl, kinda funny
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>>1905797
>why do you want an even spread instead of directionally concentrating maximum firepower?
In this case front forward firepower doesn't change.
>when you turn the arrow tip towards the enemy, all ship batteries are firing at the target
No. When you turn your tip towards the enemy they are moving to your blatantly large blind side or broadsides. Do you not understand this?
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>>1905811
>No. When you turn your tip towards the enemy they are moving to your blatantly large blind side or broadsides. Do you not understand this?
the ISD has a turning capability. Do you not understand this?
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>>1905813
M8 even in-lore Destroyers get locked into broadside combat all the time because the enemy just stays away from the front and keeps moving. You just cannot wrap your head around this so you default to envisioning stationary targets or oceanic 2D combat.
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>>1905815
>so you default to envisioning stationary targets
you're the one constantly implying ISDs are stationary targets that never turn
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>>1905862
Where is this implied? No really where do you get "move your ship to the blindspot" to mean "the ship is stationary"?
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>>1905566
Directional thrusters have more then one side with nozzles on them. A common example is the double sided type where you can change from going forward to going backwards with zero turning.
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>>1905866
>move ship to ISD blindspot and somehow not get annihilated by all the batteries beforehand
>ISD turns
>you are no longer in blindspot
this isnt rocket science. Are you seriously implying any ship can just play ring around the rosie with the ISD indefinitely?
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>>1905815
in lore a farmboy with no prior military experience blows up the death star, your argument is dumb
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>>1905754
>in reality star wars combat almost always devolves into broadsiding
The only SW battle that has ships broadsiding each other is the Battle over Coruscant. There was no broadsiding during Endor, with the only actual close contact being between starfighters.
Even the games are mostly two fleets keeping their distance trading blows. Compare that to games like Battlefleet Gothic, where broadsides are the name of the game.
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>>1905800
At the battle of endor and in the prequels, ships are all amongst each other broadsiding. In the X-wing novels, the best examples of EU combat, everyone is broadsiding like it's 1805. SDs don't have superior speed or maneuverability compared to other capital ships, so they don't get to set up for their ideal bow-on engagement unless the enemy is retreating as seen in episode 4 chasing the tantive IV.

>>1906010
Here's one broadside shot, and there are several others with mon cals bracketing SDs to the side and one with a mon cal flying less than 200m over an SD. There's a ton of broadsiding in the old EU, and if you choose to ignore that as non-canon, so are the games. We have more incidences of broadsiding in the moves than not.
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ISD's aren't actually that slow. In a New Hope, they did keep up with the Millennium Falcon, a notoriously fast ship until it entered hyperspace.
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>>1906052
>ISDs can keep up with a notoriously unreliable and overboasted scrap freighter guis!
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When are they going to update with the Imperial Nebulon B design?
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>>1906058
god this improves nebulons so much, both aesthetically and practically.
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>>1905911
>move ship to ISD blindspot and somehow not get annihilated by all the batteries beforehand
Worked for Thrawn.

>Are you seriously implying any ship can just play ring around the rosie with the ISD indefinitely?
Yes and no. Again, the blindspot of the Destroyer is not just the back its entire underside. Since is underdefended you just have to keep the underside facing you and you have rendered pretty much most of its guns worthless. So long as your speed keeps parity or greater then you can pretty much stay there and the ship is helpless against you.
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>>1906155
>Since is underdefended you just have to keep the underside facing you
...the ISD can turn vertically too.
>So long as your speed keeps parity or greater then you can pretty much stay there and the ship is helpless against you.
and which ship has cannons and weapons powerful enough to pierce through the shields and armor while also being faster than the ISD? What are you going to do about the swarm of TIE fighters and bombers? Are we also going to pretend tractor beam doesn't exist precisely to counter smaller and faster ships?
My dude this is some intense theorycrafting but it's based on your headcanon and the ISD being commanded by a drooling toddler. EU descriptions of battles are also not based in logic but in storytelling plot devices, Thrawn is a gary stu who wins everything until he doesn't, so is Wedge when the plot demands it.
The only way your theory would work is if the ISD was already engaged with other ships in front of it.
But if you have overwhelming numbers, it doesn't matter how many batteries the ISD has and how efficiently spaced they are.
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>>1906297
>...the ISD can turn vertically too.
And so can ships also continue to move, staying under the Destroyer. There is no theory crafting here you simply asked what the flaws of the Destroyer's designs are criticized for and I simply answered. Assuming you are the same Anon.
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>>1906297
The ISD has an advantage up until its opponent exits its upper bow. If the enemy cap dives down, the ISD must roll, and the attacker can simply continue moving up and down as it approaches forcing the ISD to continuously roll to keep its primary battery on target. Ranges in SW aren't that long and converging speeds are high. As soon as the attacker(assuming something like a mon cal) is broadside on with the ISD it has at least a 60/40 gun advantage. As soon as the attacker passes the ISD, it is never going to recover as it is not going to out-turn any other capitol ship in a reasonable time that matters. And even if it does out-turn, then the attacker just passes it yet again.

SDs are a bad design because the stepped wedge only does one thing and it's not an insurmountable advantage. Lorewise SDs are considered terror weapons because that's all they can do, exert imperial power over planets.
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>>1906306
>And so can ships also continue to move, staying under the Destroyer.
and which ship has cannons and weapons powerful enough to pierce through the shields and armor while also being faster than the ISD? What are you going to do about the swarm of TIE fighters and bombers? Are we also going to pretend tractor beam doesn't exist precisely to counter smaller and faster ships?
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>>1906323
Now you are moving the goalposts and adding things to this white room scenario. Star Destroyers are cool okay and I know it sucks to realize the flaws in the design but it doesn't matter because Star Wars just waves away all the problems of their ship designs with Ayy tech and the Force. Anything else is either tacitly acknowledged and you only ever read about why in books if you are a lore autist but otherwise Star Wars embraces soft sci-fi and should stay that way.
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>>1906331
except all of these things are inherent features of ISDs, they still have tractor beams in this white room scenario. You're just deflecting because your entire theory is based on your headcanon
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>>1906424
No Anon, you added the tractor beams. You added 10,000 Tie Fighters. You added an accusation that I treated the Destroyer as stationary. You then went and mentioned vertical turning when you finally realized I wasn't talking about just going left or right ona flat plane. You added shields and armor. You even go so far as to call limited angles of the ship's turrets as headcanon.
All this simply because I answered your question and you did not like the answer.

You need to cool it.
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>>1906526
You forgot one key factor, you're an idiot.

Sure, you could dive to 'evade' an ISD's weapon envelope and force it to roll but anything large enough to deal meaningful damage is going to be spotted at a such a distance that the ISD could 'pre-roll' before they enter firing range. Not to mention you'll need enough speed to match the ISD's angular velocity, which drastically increases at standoff range.

The only way your plan works is if you jump in at close range. At which point you may as well be pulling Holdo maneuvers.
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>>1906526
>The Imperial I-class Star Destroyer was a model of Imperial-class Star Destroyer in the service of the Imperial Navy. A wedge-shaped capital ship, it bristled with weapons emplacements, assault troops, boarding craft, and TIE fighter series starfighters. In the era of the Galactic Empire, its command bridge was staffed by the finest crewmen in the navy.
>The Imperial-class Star Destroyer bristled with weapons emplacements. 60 Taim & Bak XX-9 heavy turbolaser batteries, 60 Borstel NK-7 ion cannons, and ten Phylon Q7 tractor beam projectors dotted its whitish gray hull.[1] At the very front of the ship existed the forward pursuit tractor beam array.
>By far the heaviest weapons on the ship were the six turbolaser turrets positioned alongside the two ion turrets. With a diameter of 50 meters, each turbolaser was capable of ripping through heavy armor and overloading shields. Although it was difficult to hit small, fast-moving craft, even a glancing blow would destroy them.
>On the underside of the very tip of the ISD was the navigational deflector generator.[9] It had heavy shielding[2] strong enough to easily withstand a collision with a GR-75 medium transport with no damage to the hull.
>Within its vast belly hangar bays, an Imperial-class Star Destroyer typically carried an impressive complement of troops, consisting of seventy-two TIE fighter series starfighters,[10] eight Lambda-class T-4a shuttles, twenty AT-AT walkers, thirty AT-ST or AT-DP walkers, and fifteen Imperial Troop Transports.
>A prominent feature of the Imperial-class was its bridge tower. Located atop the tower were twin deflector shield generator globes and a tractor beam targeting array.
I didn't add tractor beams, shields, or TIE Fighters. George Lucas did.
You (YOU) are literally cherrypicking facts to support your headcanon. Not me.
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>>1906551
Both are idiots.

Idiot A cannot be bothered to draw what he means and just repeats the same things over and over again inadequately thinking the idiot B will get it. Idiot B doesn't understand that idiot A is talking about something specific to real world space physics with 6DOF style movement not the franchise's own in-universe space physics so the point he is trying to make flies right over his head so he keeps bringing up fluff and lore that doesn't matter to idiot A whatsoever.
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>>1906526
and I never said "limited angles of the ship's turrets" are your headcanon.
Your headcanon is this ridiculous notion that you can play ring around a rosie with an ISD indefinitely and defeat it in a straight up engagement by diving under its hull. When it has plenty of design features to prevent that from happening. And even if it does happen somehow, it has fighters to send after whatever little fucker is there.
But in your white room scenario the ISD has none of that and it's also commanded by a drooling toddler that just keeps going in circles.
Your "gotcha" is kindergarten recess tier deep.
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>>1906596
>idiot A is talking about something specific to real world space physics with 6DOF style movement not the franchise's own in-universe space physics
then you join the idiot crew, because idiot A is either arguing real-life 6DOF space physics, or brings up a bunch of in-universe lore examples >>1906035
sorry, you can't have both.
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>>1906600
What design features. Are you talking about the lasers? Even in your own graph from that wiki you can clearly see that the design can be improved by just doubling the Heavy Turbolaser Batteries.
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>>1906614
tractor beam, shields, TIE fighters. These features.
>dive under hull
get tractor beam'd and vaporized.
>dive under hull and keep going
TIE fighters, shields
>dive under hull and keep going, no shields, no tractor beams, no TIE fighters
do an upward sharp turn. Oops, all batteries are now pointing at you
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>>1906616
>Tractor Beam
Only works in weight class disparity unless you want to bring in the Starhwak Project.
>TIE fighters
TIE fighters or X-wings is the answer to TIE Fighters. Done, still a straight up battle between two ships. 72 TIE Fighters does not excuse the design flaws when giving criticisms.
>shields
Other ships also have shields you dumb shithead, does not excuse the design flaws of being practically naked underneath.
>do an upward sharp turn.
Activate thrusters and apply force to produce moving ina circle to match the verticle turn, lmao. It would be better to barrel roll instead of turning the nose tip.

The design is still shit.
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>>1906631
so we're in agreement that there isn't a ship both faster and better armed than the ISD. If they have the guns and the shields and the X-wings, they don't have the speed.
Therefore we are also in agreement that keeping under the ISD hull and defeating it this way is a ridiculous notion. Because it will just adjust the arrow tip to face the enemy and unload maximum firepower.
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>>1906634
See you extend the goalposts and immediately wait for any perceived concession so you can pull the dumbest shit out of your ass and say we are in agreement like the cocksucking faggot that you are. Star Destroyers are slow, the same as every big ship to give fighters the limelight. Sharp turning will only result in those same ships keeping parity with them because the retard on board thought that nobody would notice when he tries to move his ship to face them and will automatically fail as they adjust themselves to match.

Again resulting in them still being away from the front and in their blindspot. There is no escaping for a lone Destroyer.
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>>1906639
>you extend the goalposts and immediately wait for any perceived concession so you can pull the dumbest shit out of your ass
I literally, and I mean literally, am going just off movies 4-6. Source material is the dumbest shit I'm pulling out of my ass? Check out the beginning of A New Hope, your mind will be blown. Lmao
>Star Destroyers are slow, the same as every big ship to give fighters the limelight.
the scale difference, the engine size difference and thrust power output difference directly contradict your statement. ISD gave pursuit to both a fast as fuck Tantive IV and Millenium Falcon. Because it has big ass engines with big ass power output. X-Wings can tickle an ISD's bottom shields. Y-Wings are considerably slower than X-wings.
>There is no escaping for a lone Destroyer.
it doesn't need to escape, it's a Destroyer. And if the enemy numbers are overwhelming, it doesn't matter how many batteries it has and if they are under the hull too.
>like the cocksucking faggot that you are
and we have an ad hominem encore, roll the credits George. Thanks for the concession.
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>>1906645
Insults are not ad hominems.
>Source material is the dumbest shit I'm pulling out of my ass?
10,000 TIE Fighters, courtesy of uranus.
>it's a Destroyer.
Destroyers are just glorified police. Whooptie fucking doo. Doesn't change any of my criticisms about them being invalid, which you yourself can never actually give an answer for.
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>>1906652
>Insults are not ad hominems.
it is literally the definition of ad hominem
>10,000 TIE Fighters, courtesy of uranus.
please point out the post where I said it's 10 thousand.
>Destroyers are just glorified police
there goes your headcanon again.
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Holy shit when two autists with differing opinions meet, it's the most intense back and forth clash ever. It's the closest thing to an internet lightsaber duel
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>>1906656
Ad hominums are attacks against a person to undermine their argument. I am just insulting you because you tongue the Pajeet special sauce right off the pavement.
>please point out the post where I said it's 10 thousand.
I don't need too, an exxageration I made the up for effect you never refuted is all I need to know you are full of curry.
>there goes your headcanon again.
Prove them being planet police is headcanon. That isn't relevant to them having a shit design though, you still have yet to address it.
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Honestly, I don't know why you guys are bitching about this. ISD's are perfectly practical and powerful ships. The Empire simply wouldn't have used them if that wasn't the case.
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>>1906667
>Ad hominums are attacks against a person to undermine their argument.
and what is an insult in our discussion, but a pathetic attempt at diverting attention from your asinine headcanon ideas?
>I don't need too, an exxageration I made the up for effect you never refuted
>>1906581
>seventy-two TIE fighter series starfighters
here you go my blind dude.
>Prove them being planet police is headcanon.
pic related, Battle of Endor. Are you going to put on a wig and red nose now and claim space cops are in charge of fighting the entire Rebel Alliance fleet?
>>1906672
nooo you don't understand, the underside has like no guns at all so it's shit!!11 You can just sit there in the blindspot and ISD is helpless... Taskete Thrawn-kun...
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>>1906676
>underside has like no guns
Couldn't that be spun into an advantage? Like in that one CW episode where they had the Venator showing its bottom to the CIS fleet. Less stuff at the bottom means less damage taken.
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>>1906676
I accept your concession.
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>ITT
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are star destroyers even really warships, they seem more suited towards peacekeeping/occupation forces
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>>1905754
By sheer amount of turbolasers ISDs are still going to be more comfortable fighting broad sidesw ith rebel capital ships.
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>>1906776
It's a battleship crossed with an amphibious assault ship that carries its own fighter support. It's basically it's basically canned system wide oppression.
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>>1906776
They're bad warships, but palpatine ordered 15,000 of them, as a joke.

>>1906842
They still have a raw mount # advantage, but again, they are poorly placed and their shields are inferior. They can at the best of times fight an early moncal to a stalemate.
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>>1906681
The big Star Wars ships, I noticed, are very fragile once the shields are down so that would be an advantage minus the hangar.
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>>1906681
The Venators were basically carriers though, with a dorsal hangar bay. So yes, for them this could work, but in general no, hull damage is incredibly bad in SW, armor isn't really effective unless you look between weapon magnitudes(like blasters being ineffective on AT-ATs). Starfighter laser cannons can damage capital ships, but effectively only matter if targeting an important or exposed subsystem.

Turbolasers hitting unshielded hull are going to shred it very quickly in comparison.
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>>1906884
Then you have the Holder maneuver, which revealed everyone could have had capital sized missiles that can go so fast they turn plaid and cause inconceivably massive shockwaves wiping out whole fleets. Making everyone's struggles look silly and dumb in comparison.
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>>1907020
If only they had let a woman command earlier they would have figured it out much sooner!
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>>1906700
you got BTFO'd into the outer rim faggot, stop posting already. God you autists are insufferable
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>>1906884
>basically carriers
They are considered multirole capital ships. The Republic used them for both carrier and frontline combat, much like Providence's.
>in general no
Wasn't the mentioned as a standard tactic in one of the Thrawn books?
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>>1907033
you already consneeded, you can stop posting now.
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>>1907042
Retard
It's hilarious how much people think so little of star destroyers
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>>1907042
>no u
ebin
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>>1907042
Just accept that you lost.
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>>1907042
>consneeded
I like this.
I'm stealing it.

FYI if you want to discuss the worse ship in the SWU look at the rebels posterboy, the X-wing. Bad engine placement, bad weapon placement, exposed systems and a sperg-foil system that only serves to further hamper its ability to do a barrel-roll.
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>>1907080
If this game is even halfway lore accurate to ship accuracy then most ships do not have a problem with being slow.
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>>1907080
X-Wings are perfect though. Just like ISD's.
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>>1907097
They actually are, since the wings can be written off as heat sinks for shooting the blasters.
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>>1907097
>>1907109
The X-wing is far from perfect, ideally you need to swap the thruster/weapon placement. This would give the weapons better convergence and increase its maneuverability notably. It also has the same problem as the ISD, where the opponent can dive and the X-wing pilot will no longer be able to see them underneath that honkingly long nose.
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>>1907109
Heat does not sink to a vacuum efficiently.
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I accept your confetti
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>>1907167
>It also has the same problem as the ISD, where the opponent can dive and the X-wing pilot will no longer be able to see them underneath that honkingly long nose
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>>1907182
Coolant material is not the vacuum of space either. Better luck next time.
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>>1907109
>the wings can be written off as heat sinks for shooting the blasters.
The superior X-wing...
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>>1907410
then explain why an s-foil sinks heat better than any other arrangement.
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>>1907420
Because the entire vessel in space will accumulate heat without dissipitation into the vacuum of space (as you yoursself also pointed out) what you want to do is to control where the heat will build up to first to prevent the people inside from being cooked alive from uniform heat buildup. Heat sinks serves this purpose by redirecting heat buildup into coolant materials.
In the case of x-wings, the heat from firing off its weapons accumulates in the "wings" serving as a buffer for the pilot.

Very simple stuff.
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>>1907431
And the heat from the engines....
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>>1907432
Look Anon, they are flying coffins you deploy and then have anyone alive return to then deal with the damage. Gradual heat buildup in that case is less important to someone who is going to die within 1-3 deployments. If you are going to criticise the design you have to keep in mind what the thing you are criticizing is being used for.
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>>1907434
Look Anon, they're not flying coffins, they're flying crematoriums. The heat from the engines slow roasts the occupants till their tender meats falls of their bone. You think it's a coincidence the X-wing was designed by a wookie! Think about it, Luke wasn't hearing old man won-ton when he heard a voice telling him to use the force. Watch that scene again, he was running full throttle and R2 had just boosted the engines power even further. It was heat delirium.
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>>1907445
Nah, this won't work. You just do not have that energy or sincerity.
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>>1907445
wookies are untrained slave labor, not starfighter designers.
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>>1905471
nah
isd-1/2 and venator are clearly designed for nose on and broadside engagements, and for that, their main guns are done well. nose on and they can all bear on targets. devastator at scarif shows this.

the ventral hangar bay and reactor bulb on the isd-1/2 are a good design trade-off, as its heavy guns protect the dorsal side and the ship can orientate itself easily to keep the ventral away from the enemy.
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>>1907541
Even if that were all true they waste a huge amount of space and displacement for their troop complement. Purpose built warships clobber them.
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>>1907431
How do you know SW energy management isn't just much more efficient then ours? If a jedi can wield a lightsaber without burning themselves by proximity or if a blaster can shoot without exploding, then maybe a starfighter doesn't need as much heat management systems as you might think. Maybe it just doesn't accumulate heat as much as you would think because they have such advanced tech.
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>>1907544
In other words.

They can be improved with more guns on the underside.
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>>1907574
Ashuhillybee, my dear beloved darling Anon.

It is canonically deepest lore courtesy of the extended universe that the wings of the X-Wing are heat just sinks and atmosphere stabilizers when they have to actually enter space. Otherwise they would be similar to TIE Fighters with bunched up guns and just the thrusters as they are. Which would be an interesting choice since I don't think anyone actually does that with space fighters in sci-fi when given the choice.
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>>1907577
>my dear beloved darling Anon
I love you too.
> I don't think anyone actually does that with space fighters in sci-fi when given the choice
A-Wing. I guess those have better heat management then X-Wings then.
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>>1907581
Actually yes, the A-Wing very likely does have superior heat management since it can bear the brunt of an atmospheric entry by just keeping the tip pointed to the ground.
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>>1907574
hard sci-fi autists should get the fucking rope and fuck off from star wars threads
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It'll be funny if SMG releases a better Clone Wars mod than FoTR in half the time and pulls the rug out from under Corey, who has been fucking around with troons and autism for the past 14+ years
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>>1907746
>SMG
who?
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>>1907746
who is this submachine gun? Heckler and koch?
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>>1907772
>>1907777
Steiner Modding Group, the people who make Awakening of The Rebellion
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>>1907746
>better
Its too different to compare.
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>>1907785
AOTR is miserable to play though.
Not to mention going with the >disney canon
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>>1907575
I mean maybe? But a portion of their flaw is simply them being incredibly large and unusually shaped which makes their shield generators inefficient regardless. In SW cap ship fights it's a slugfest between who can get the other guys shields down first and mon cals have better shields despite having weaker weaponry.

In theory sure you can strap more turbolasers to the underside of an ISD and it wont overtax the power grid because you usually wont be firing both your dorsal and ventral batetteries, but it would still increase the cost and number of crew required which is another problem they have. Despite being powerfulish they are cost inefficient vessels(which is fine if you're making a 1970s hero movie trilogy but is a problem if nerds in 2024 argue about logistics).
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>>1907944
these double ships are retarded. There are 0 guns on the sides and bottom, wasted space. How are you going to shoot uboats? All you have to do is go under them and they're helpless, what retard designed this?
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>>1907949
Worcester was designed as an ainti-aircraft cruiser. Her 6 inch main battery could fire radar-guided with proximity fuses at a high speed. It was not in her design to hunt submersibles.
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>>1907949
Unlike in the vacuum of space ships that do that quickly sink from water intake.
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>>1907974
>>1908013
no, it's just shit design and wasted space. Just go under it and they can't even see you anymore, they're completely helpless
>anti-aircraft
you're just pulling shit out of your ass!!!
If it was good like mon calamari cruisers and subs, it would have gun batteries efficiently spaced all around it in a 360 degree fashion and able to handle any danger.
Worcester is a police sauce anyway, not a real ship. It was only used to police islands, it's useless against real military like the mon calamari fleet
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>>1908217
>>1908217
>Just go under it and they can't even see you anymore, they're completely helpless
This is actually true Anon. Ships had to wait for subs to surface or make a mistake in making too much noise. Once they submerge and stay quiet they are genuinely helpless against them and cannot do shit about it but make educated guesses to where they might resurface for air. Drug certels also make their own discount subs for drug smuggling with great success.

But here, have your (you) attention whore.
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>>1908217
360 guns for ships often trade firing arcs for pure firepower on one side.
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>>1908247
so do ISDs, but that argument doesn't exist apparently
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>>1908230
>This is actually true Anon. Ships had to wait for subs to surface or make a mistake in making too much noise.
*activate sonar*
*blocks your path*
*blows a hole in your hull*
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>>1908230
But anon, subs cant go in space.
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>>1908276
Based off this >>1906581 their main weapons do not have a full 360 degrees by virtue of them being either hardpoints or being blocked by a giant bridge right behind them. Of course in the movies they show much smaller turrets but those seem to be exclusively for point defense against fighters.
>>1908284
Those bunch are replying to an Anon coplaining about real ships thanks to the pic here >>1907944
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>>1908438
>just one big rotating cannon on top
holy. fucking. WASTED. SPACE. 80% of the ship doesn't even do anything. And all you have to do is dive under it, and it's defeated, completely helpless. Who designed this crap?
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>>1908438
No, its still in beta. Corey recently did a Mando playthrough though, so it seems to be coming along nicely.

>>1908458
Its a big canon for the ship. They made sure all its power goes into it for maximum single shot damage. Makes perfect sense.
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>>1908470
the opponent can just dive and you won't even see him anymore, how does it make sense?
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>>1908472
Have support ships and keep your opponents above you. Simple.
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>>1908458
It is not even a proper rotating canon. Forget just going nder the ship they can just go broadside at a lower position and that ship is fucked.
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>>1908438
If you were making a monitor why would you not have it be like a lucre hulk and put the gun(s) on rotating tracks around the entire ship?
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>>1908551
Some people just don't dig the malevolent clam look.
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>>1908458
it's a monitor, anon. monitors are short-ranged defensive ships with battleship/dreadnought-sized cannons. their role is purely to dish out hurt on enemy warships, with a secondary bombardment role. they're generally smaller than cruisers in overall length, but bigger than corvettes.

i think the guy who made that one should have increased its overall length to around a frigate.
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>>1908666
Yeah but they put it on top of a star destroyer hull. You don't need all that space and hull if you're just a monitor, monitors are literally the smallest seaworthy vessel that can mount the gun you want. You don't need armor, or speed, or fighters, or ground troops. Your only job is to show up when a planet needs to be bombarded.
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>>1908681
the size of the hull to cannon ratio isn't out of the norm for historical monitors, though. t's by no means a star destroyer-sized hull. it looks to be similar in size to an arquitens, so a rather small ship.
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if your monitor doesn't capsize the first time it hits rough weather it's not a real monitor
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>>1908720
in star wars terms, it'd probably just translate into poor endurance and speed. though, they'd probably be a mix of coastal defense ship and a monitor, since planetary bombardment can be done by most things if there's no shields.

in a way, the munificent is a mix of a monitor and frigate. it has those prow-mounted gonzo guns. actually, i think the recusant has similar. seems like the cis had the right idea.
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>>1908686
Historical monitors need buoyancy, a spaceship doesn't. You don't need that much crew or power to operate a big gun barge.
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Why do Hutts have the prettiest ships?
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>>1909196
>Rich Mafia Gangster Thuglord family
I wonder why the Mafia family might prioritize looks over military aesthetic or cobbled together pieces of "This is what we got"
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The Subjugator is such a sexy, sexy ship
>>1909233
Money and power are wasted if you don't spend it on looking great.
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>>1909252
So am I doing something wrong in the tutorial or are those first batch of imperial ships you get really just that shit? 3/4 of them got their asses stomped and for whatever reason shields do not recharge that quickly.
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>>1909196
But that's the Imperials
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The Republic-turned-Empire's last stand over Toyodaria at 9 BBY. After 14 years, the clone wars are finally over with the Confederacy's utter victory.
>>1910042
What mod are you talking about? Also, there's almost no ship that can recharge shields under fire - if you want them to recover, retreat them behind your battle line once they take a beating.
>>1910081
CIS ships > Imperial ships
Can we agree that the rebel ribbed dildo ships look the worst of all the main factions?
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>>1910209
No mod just the first game's basic tutorials, first space battle you get is empire and you start with four ships. Then they get raped by this single rebel ship. I still beat it with the empire's reinforcements but I cannot help but suspect I should have lost way less then 3/4 ships there.
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>>1910209
>CIS ships > Imperial ships
CIS ships are pretty, but I feel like they make worse screencaps than Imperial fleets. Though I do like CSA fleets that mix the two.

>Can we agree that the rebel ribbed dildo ships look the worst of all the main factions?
Empire of the Hand is up there for bad fleets, but for sure it's the worst of the main factions.
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>>1910696
Aren' the EOTH ships mostly fan made? They do look like something from Star Trek.
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>>1909196
>Darksaber is literally just a giant lightsaber hilt
i jejed
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>>1910794
I think so, but they're just too blocky in general for my liking.
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>>1910794
>>1911538
Most of them are. The baseline claw craft and the vague mentions of Chiss Star Destroyers are the only Legends Chiss ships. Everything else is cut from the cloth. I think they might be dipping into the Disney Canon for some things now since the new Thrawn books touch upon them
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>>1910209
>CIS ships > Imperial ships
It's all fun and games until the Luchrehulks and Bulwark IIIs warp in.
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Yes, CIS ships are amazing, as I just experienced.
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>>1911886
I fucking love lucrehulks
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>>1911928
Same. It is my overall favorite Star Wars ship type. I love everything about it.
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Swampy clone troopers look really cool.
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>>1911928
>>1911924
When playing as the CSA, Lucrehulks surprisingly synergize well with VicStars.
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>>1912018
CSA fleets have a certain je ne sais quoi element to them. The imperial ships work well as a backline while CIS ships are good centerpieces.
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Is there any corpo building that reduces csa infantry cost ?? I want cheap droidekas :(
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>>1912208
Rossum Droidworks, I forget what planet they are on but I know one of the planets spawn in the late era CSA starts.
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>>1910209
>Can we agree that the rebel ribbed dildo ships look the worst of all the main factions?
MC80s are okay and they get a pretty nice mix with the late NR vessels. The Viscount is the most hideous thing ever though.
I'd say CIS is the worst in practice in FOTR despite having some of the most aesthetic ships. The Munificent just plain sucks and the Recusant isn't great either, and you can't buy the dreadnought versions. Providences, Bulwarks and Subjugators are good but look eh. Lucrehulks look and function great but going all in on them just lags the shit out of the game, and I believe core ship cruisers get locked fairly early as well.
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>>1912018
>>1912022
My favorite CSA fleet build is 2 lucherhulks and a Bulwark 3 and the rest being Bulwark 1's and corvattes. Lucherhulks give a fuckton of fighters and have a bunch of lighter guns to shoot small ships while the bulwarks give heavy weapon and ion support against caps.
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>>1912711
IIRC the Core ships are reward units along with the dreadnought scale Provies and Recusants. Didn't an earlier build have the dreadnought scale ships buildable after intergration with the Commerce Guild?
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Thrawn's Revenge faction acronyms make me feel brain-rotted. You have
>Eriadu Authority
EA (Electronic Arts)
>Greater Maldrood
GM (General Motors)
>Pentastar Alignment
PA (Palestinian Authority)
>Galactic Empire
GE (General Electric)
>Corporate Sector Authority
CSA (Confederate States of America)
>Hapes Consortium
HC
>Duskhan League
DL (Download)

Only factions that don't have some other meaning I can think of are Zsinj, the NR, and the Empire of the Hand.
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>>1913322
>HC
Hardcore (porn)
it even suits the faction lore
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>>1913357
>MFW Zsinj blitzes through Hapan space
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>>1913284
Huh, you're right, core ships are reward only. Recusant dreads do show up as rewards, but I don't remember ever seeing Munificents or Providences.
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>>1913447
I think there's one Tactical droid that rides around in a larger Munificent and much like the Rescusant, the Providence dreadnought got relagated to rewards.
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>>1913432
He really is the best Warlord in every way, isn't he?
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>>1913970
I've used the Inquisitor hero, Bossk, Lumyia, and the Star Galleon stealth pirate hero to raid worlds. Raptors and Evo Troopers from the landing bases are strong when you back stop them with Lumyia's Royal Guard Stormtroopers.
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>>1913970
I prefer EA's fleet roster and GM's ground roster, but he is the best all-around warlord and certainly more interesting than the Galactic Empire.
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>>1914116
The Empire's roster is a collection of WEG's greatest hits, it's basically the Imperial Source book.
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>>1913471
I know, I meant I haven't ran into cruiser size Munificents besides the hero version, although there's a generic unit version in the files that's so I might be just unlucky and it's in the rewards. Same for the big Providences.
>>1914116
>GM's ground roster
Are they the ones who get AT-APs?
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>>1914360
>I haven't ran into cruiser size Munificents besides the hero version, although there's a generic unit version in the files that's so I might be just unlucky and it's in the reward
I see what you mean, I haven't ran into it either from either Banking Clan annexations or their rewards. There's a submod or two that makes them buildable.
>GM's ground roster
Nah, Warlord Zsinj gets the AT-APs. Maldrood's walkers are just the AT-RT and the AT-AA. Their bread and butter is the 2M tanks, A5 Juggernuats, and the repair wagon.
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>>1908551
The Hapan Battle Dragon is the worse designed ship in Star wars history, in a field with a lot of competition. Holy shit it makes no sense, the justification for rotating tracks makes no sense at all and you have to be a either a 6 year old or Star Wars EU author churning out random trash to even think it makes sense. Also the point of a monitor is to put the biggest gun you can on the smallest possible ship. In space ideally you'll just aim the ship itself (because the ship is the gun) and maybe have a mini turret/casemate or something to make small adjustments while aiming easier/faster
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>>1914487
>Also the point of a monitor is to put the biggest gun you can on the smallest possible ship.
And the point of dreadnoughts is to have a limited number of fuck-off guns on standard capital size, yet they're giant fuck-off ships with a whole bunch of the same TLs you find on everything else down to frigates. Applying real naval logic and classifications just doesn't work on SW.
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>>1914360
GM is all about fast tanks and aircraft. Makes it easily the most dynamic of the ground rosters.
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>>1914536
You clearly didn't bother reading the post he was replying to.
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>>1914487
Hapan battle dragons make perfect sense for the Hapans. They have really shit lasers with huge recharge times. How does that work in the SW galaxy where you could just buy good lasers from someone else? I dunno, but they do make sense for them.
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>>1914662
>How does that work in the SW galaxy where you could just buy good lasers from someone else?
The Hapans are isolationist retards
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>>1914665
I didn't remember them being totally closed to trade, but I guess so. They're human aren't they? Kinda weird compared to say the ssi-ruuk who are fuckin weirdoes on the fringe.
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>>1914487
Battle Dragon makes perfect sense. What are you talking about?
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>>1914662
When they were first introduced, the justification was that it increased the rate of fire, which of course is complete nonsense - if you have x amount of guns they won't fire any faster no matter how fast you spin them, unless you have so many you can't fit them into the same firing arc (a justification not used). A couple years later they realized this didn't make sense so they retconned their guns into having a recharge rate one third of normal turbolasers. This number is too low to make sense, they merely require triple the amount of guns. There are several designs which can be used for the concept of having guns which fire three times slower than usual and out of all of them a Battle Dragon concept is by far the most retarded. For example they can just design a relatively normal ship and put them in three-gun turrets to make the equivalent of one normal gun.

For it to work the entire drive has to do one full rotation in the time it takes for a turbolaser to fire again. But a turbo laser fires every two seconds. This is way too often to justify turning an entire ship into a giant chaingun. Since a Battle Dragon is 500 meters in diameter this means these guns are travelling at 500π/6 = 261 m/s. This speed isn't super insane by Star Wars standards, but it's a lot of effort when there's already a much simpler, well-proven and canon design for when you want to fire an entire ship's worth of weapons in one direction - the dagger shape of Star Destroyers etc.

1/2
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>>1914850
There is a possible justification for this rotating drive design - if they want to minimize the frontal profile of the ship to incoming fire then the small frontal space available for weapons would make spinning them around an entire ship a solution. However, the Battle Dragons are saucer shaped so that can't be the justification (and a dagger shape is also a solution to that issue). And the profile of a Battle Dragon is huge, absolutely massive for its weight class in fact.

Another possible justification is that it makes possible bringing all available weapons fire into an entire plane of firing arcs (a weakness of the dagger shape which can only focus all weapons at the same target when firing forwards). However, this is not mentioned as a justification and is never used.

tl;dr Saying their guns fire slower so you need to spin them around an entire ship is retarded. There are numerous simple and obvious justifications for this design but none of them are used, and the actual justification is retarded.
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>>1914668
The Hapans are stuck in the "transitory mists," which basically leave them isolated from the rest of galactic civilization.
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>>1914852
Rotating design makes perfect sense. Turbolasers have high cooldown, so they put multiple on a rotating platform to essentially make a turbolaser minigun. Great for forward firepower against big ships.
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>>1914988
Sort of. They allowed paper clipped CIS designers to make their fighters after the Clone Wars while also taking pot shots at the Empire by seizing some ships.
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https://www.youtube.com/live/lHWEP3dxTAI
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>>1916557
I hope that they showcase some Vong stuff, since they are kind of shown in the thumbnail
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>>1916557
>Imperial Reign in title.
Interesting.
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Awakening of the Clone Wars is out. How is it?
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>>1917812
>ANOTHER total conversion mod for an 18 year old game
Love from Kazakhstan
I hate Disney so much it's unreal. They acquired a golden goose and killed it.
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>>1918122
>ANOTHER total conversion mod for an 18 year old game
based
>I hate Disney so much it's unreal. They acquired a golden goose and killed it
I accepted the fact, that we won't get any interesting games. Its honestly in our hands to create mods or fangames, if we really want something fresh and cool
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>>1917812
Its a lot like AOTR. Quite fun. I love how the CIS tech up is based off the various corperations supporting it. You can also use Dooku for diplomacy missions, which nets lots of money. Also ships are pretty. I didn't think the AOTR artstyle would translate so well into prequel era stuff.
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>>1918132
Its amazing that they decided to make their license so expensive that only the most expansive and largeass games could be made with it to make profit back.
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Fucking midget.
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>>1918828
What unit?
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>>1918879
Battle Legionnaire Droid from Rise of the Mandalorians
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stream is looking good
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New upcoming Hutt ship for TR.
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It's big.
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>>1919250
>30% longer than Executor
Pathfinding will be fun with this one
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>>1918735
How good are the CIS? Im worried about how their navy appears, the limit on Lucrehulks dissuades me.
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>>1902069
T-3Bs do most of what T-4Bs do but are cheaper and easier to get out onto the field.
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What was that one mod for this game I remember playing which made ground battle maps far larger and upped the unit cap but also required you to make calculated decisions to actually win over the enemy? I think it was called the "chaos" mod or something GCW related anyhow.
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>>1916557
>Vong faction will come out last
fuck, its gonna take a whole century to get them. At least they are also adding the Killiks, Ssi Ruuvi and Yevetha as playable factions before
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>>1919406
I haven't played much yet due to a lack of time and being shit at AOTR, but they are pretty cool. You tech up by investing in one of the big CIS corporations as opposed to flat tech levels. For ships, they start with a good carrier and munificents, which are great at range, but they really lack a strong tanky frontline ship, meaning they are too vulnerable. If you try them, get Trade Federations first to unlock providences to act as your frontline. Then banking clan for banks.

Also, Dooku is great. You can do diplomacy missions on enemy planets for free ships and units. Use him whenever you get the chance for that.
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>>1919430
why do people cream themselves over the ant men faction? They're just gay bootleg zerg with 0 cool factor
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>>1919523
breath of fresh air in the endless sea of near human ship/unit/building design, although EaWX diversified all the faction rather well. I honestly can't wait for every future faction to be playble. I like the Duskhan League concept art they showed in a video
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>>1902069
>tacticool
artillery and sensor nodes
abuse luke being fast and nearly invincible
push with T-3Bs (or T-4Bs if you can stomach 0.5 speed) once the power generator is dead
have han and chewie keep your tanks alive
>braindead
capture with luke and spam snow speeders
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>>1917812
>EP2 splash screen and main menu overlay
>still uses TCW droid voices
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>>1919523
People hype the Killiks? I'm more interested in the Corellians and the Yevetha.
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New models from the EAWX stream looked pretty nice.
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>>1920096
Is it a vehicle that slays siths or a sith vehicle that slays?
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>>1919594
TCW comic relief droid voices are a cancer. Can't they just rip the voices from the old Battlefront 1 and 2 games?
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>>1920286
Latter.
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>>1920353
Both are in, the old BF droid voice speaks when you capture a landing point. Now they just need to get rid of the dumb voices.
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>>1920096
what is this goofy ass tiberian sun design lmao
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>>1920353
>>1920507
Also SWGB is pretty much the go to default for supers. Pretty sure FOTR has some RC droid voice clips too so it's not for a lack of options
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EAWX map previews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wJWgxW_wkU
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>>1920651
I really like his maps. Great use of props and textures
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>Techno Union easter egg in AOCW
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>>1920979
Same. I hope they make it to all EAWX.

>>1921062
What easter egg?
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>>1921082
>What easter egg?
One of the random CIS missions is given by Wat Tambor. One time I opened the logs it started blasting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW4OIHDsWsM
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I hope this features from Imperial Reign gets ported over to Thrawn's Revenge and the other related mods:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIeA2irdNQ8&ab_channel=CoreyLoses
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>>1921543
It looks like a very cool idea, though Corey did say they wanted to make IR different from the other mods, so it may not make it into the others.
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>>1920084
>>1920085
>>1920087
>>1920090
>>1920096
Which mod ?
TR or one of the others?
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>>1922109
Revans Revenge
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>>1910259
Oh, you mean the tartans. Those are anti-fighter and not suited to fighting capital ships, best you can do fighting those is get up close to maximise your accuracy and use power to weapons
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>>1921543
>>1921997

I think it'll stick with IR specifically to differentiate it from Thrawn's revenge. So far the whole idea of reducing the scale seems the best way of keeping it different and trying to make it asymmetrical, at least in comparison to the other mods.

Besides, I don't think the fighter mechanic would work as well with FOTR and TR when you have massive numbers of carriers, destroyers , and other ships all with fighter complements. You'd wind up spending all your time tweaking fighter loadouts instead of playing the game, especially tiresome given the haphazard nature of trying to manage things while paused in eaw (Another engine limitation that the team haven't managed to figure out a workaround to)
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Hate the teardrop-shaped turbolaser effects from Corey's mods.
Retvrn to straight line shape.
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>>1923070
Base game had teardrop shaped turbolasers and straight line laser cannons.
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>>1923351
CIS can build animals?
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>>1923368
No, but units transfer to you when you Dooku a planet.
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Does the AI rush to get tech ups in AOTR/AOTC if the player does? I'm kinda tempted to do so as the republic so I can have good frigates to dish out firepower
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What corporation should I tech up first in AOTCW? CIS have some good starting ships, but they lack a good tank to keep them alive with the captor and munificent both being great at their roles, but very fragile.
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>>1923494
Either Commerce Guild for economic buildings or TF to make use of your free trial Gunray.
Haven't tried everything yet, but from what I've seen none of the unit unlocks beat your starting AATs, Lucrehulks and Munificents. Corvettes and frigates especially get shafted because cruisers are barely a step up in pop count but a huge step up in capability.
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>>1923675
You start with Lucrehulks?
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>>1923690
Yeah, you can build control ships from the start. I'd say they are even better than the battleships because much better sensors (even though statcards say battleship has the same) and AA focus mesh really well with Munificents.
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How do I negotiate with pirates in AOTCW? I can only do it with Republic and Hutts.
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My dick. I love lucherhulks so fucking much like holy shit! Look at this gorgeous beast of a ship.
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Why are the Hutts building space whales?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd88THy-Zd8
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>>1923898
Same reason they build Akleys and Rancors. They love domesticating big animals.
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>>1923898
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8V2U7vTys0
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kek, the latest remake mod version and the disbanding of the team flew completely under my radar. This reminded me of the really old version from 2017 I believe. Does somebody have the archive of that old version? Can't find it on Moddb and Workshop
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>>1923675
>Corvettes and frigates especially get shafted because cruisers are barely a step up in pop count but a huge step up in capability.
From my experience in AOTR, corvettes and frigates tend to be the specialty ships. Even as the empire, I found the raider corvette to be one of the most useful ships on its roster because it was such an efficient corvette killer. Similar deal with Nebulon frigates completely negating missile units, or fleet tenders that made everything stronger.
Cruisers tend to sacrifice their abilities for better brawling power. These are the dreadnoughts, the gladiators, and the MC-40s. They're generally the most versatile ships because they can fight off most threats and thus complement any fleet, while corvettes tend to have a very specific set of armaments and capitals have their armament configured for killing capitals and cruisers.

That said, I haven't been and to play AOTCW yet, so I don't know if the CIS is different from the AOTR factions.
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The true peoples of planet Earth use the force in infinite verities of ways
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>>1924316
>>1924320
Are you sure this is the right thread, retard-kun?

We're all about the sexy space triangles here, not your shitty loli waifu.
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>>1924362
The Bulwark from AOTCW in that anon's first pic makes me think that it's a schizo poster.
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>>1924456
Looks like something from Homeworld than the Zeroxx/EvilJedi model for the Bulwark
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>>1923759
and rescaling of the unit sizes and speeds to make ground battles more fun and less like a speedy gook-clicker.

For instance AoTR and AoTCW you actually need transports to move and support infantry or else they'll be extremely vulnerable and be quickly picked off. Or if air units start attacking you you better have some AA available. In EAWX you just land your invasion mix, ctr+a, click a point on the map, and land replacements to make up for the losses. Someone pointed this out to Corey years ago but he just said "we're not AoTR" and wouldn't have it.
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>>1924148

Remake is a fucking trainwreck on the level of yodenmod that gets a pass only becuase of the graphical improvements.
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Fall of the Republic is amazing.
Anyone played the survival mode?
What are your tips and tricks?
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>>1925130
Never played Yodenmod, but I always got the impression that it was a mess, but a fun one. Remake was actively anti-fun.
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>>1925147
What's wrong with Remake? I heard a lot of conflicting opinions about the mod

T. Only really played Vanilla and EAWX
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>>1925198
Space battles were so poorly balanced that you were better off autoresolving, and the economy was terrible. This was before they added ground battles, but my experience with the mod was so bad that I never tried it again.

People never claimed it got better
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>>1925130
>Remake is a fucking trainwreck on the level of yodenmod
allow picrelated to introduce itself
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>>1925202
Wait, that actually came out? I remember seeing it get started years ago. Was pretty hyped for it too.
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>>1925207
it did, but its just a hollow and shitty skirmish release, although they had worked on a GC. All the work those niggers did is worth nothing. I don't get why those spergs just don't release all their models
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B1's have forest camo, interestingly enough.
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>>1925230
>inb4 its a texture bug
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>>1925213
>>1925202
I was hoping the Age of Legends guy would yank them for his own.
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>>1895211
>pirating a good game that you shouldve owned before the Mouse bought out the franchise
ISHYGDDT
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>>1895211
Honestly, considering how cheap it is and steam workshop for mods, you really should just buy the damn thing.
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>>1895211
The files for the latest build are available, I doubt it needs anything besides Goldberg emu.
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>>1895211
shitskin detected
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This map almost feels unfair..almost
So useful for keeping the repub*ic stuck since they've been keeping a big fleet above Umbara too
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>>1895211
do NOT redeem saar!!
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>copy Recusant Dreadnough to AOTCW
>add a flak for every barrel on the model
>ship is now an impassable death field for small craft
Well.
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>>1926474
Are hailfires weapons of mass death in this mod? They're probably my favorite CIS unit after I tried them in FotR.
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>>1926660
No, those are the AATs.
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>>1926665
I see. Hopefully, they'll feel good to use. I always preferred the snail tanks over AATs because they seemed to have better mobility.
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Whats the difference between AOTCW and FOTR?
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>>1926716
About the same as the difference between AOTR and Thrawn's Revenge.
As a general rule, FotR is going to be more arcadey and less complex, with raw firepower mattering much more. The economy builds up quickly and is fairly safe. Ships have fewer and less complicated abilities, but you tend to manage far more of them.
In contrast, AOTCW is going to have more depth and complexity but feel slower. Units like corvettes and bombers need to be micromanaged a lot more, but they can also do more. Tons of units have special abilities that need to be learned and countered. The economy also builds up slowly, and makes your wealthy planets vulnerable to raids.

In general, EaWX is better for chill games while the Steiner mods are better for when you crave deeper strategy. If you haven't played AOTCW or AOTR yet, you should definitely try one of them out because they take a refreshing approach to a lot of mechanics. However, there is a learning curve and they may not be the mods for you after you learn them.
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>>1926716
Assuming you're familiar with FOTR
>economy
Much simpler in AOTCW, buildings either increase or decrease a planet's income, none of that development bullshit.
>eras/tech
No eras as far as I can tell. Tech is tied to special buildings. If you lose the building, you lose the tech.
>ground combat
Damage types matter much more in AOTCW. A spam horde of basic infantry will struggle against light armor, but AT squads are a serious threat to even the heaviest vehicles.
Not everything is a mobile AA battery, so aircraft can be a much bigger problem. Though, basic infantry can still shoot at them and down them in reasonable time with enough blasters pointing up.
Build pad turrets are much better because of these, a few AT guns with some meatshields in front of them can hold off pretty significant invasion forces.
Build pads are also split into two categories, the normal ones can build light AA, AT or AI guns while sensor nodes and repair/bacta stations are restricted to the larger pads.
Oh, and you can't sell turrets, once they're destroyed, the pad is gone.
>space
FoW exists.
Missiles and torpedoes penetrate shields.
Shield generator hardpoints exist.
A lot more damage types and projectiles consistently have the same ranges on every ship i.e. a light TL in AOTR will have a damage type common to all TLs and a range somewhere between 1600-4000, a light long-range TL in AOTCW will have a damage type unique to light TLs and have a range of 4500 across all ships that have it.
Large ships have a mix of destructible and non-destructible hardpoints. This means that the ship still has some portion of its fighting capability left after all its weapon hardpoints are blown. They also have a special hull hardpoint, which is a lot tougher than regular hardpoints and will kill the entire ship if destroyed.
>effects
AOTCW is much more effect heavy. I think this is very welcome in space battles, but makes ground battles with a lot of infantry involved almost impossible to see.
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>>1926660
Pretty much only useful for combating vehicles, even AT-TEs better watch out around them
>>1926716
I did only play FOTR a bit, the seemingly infinite garrisons on each world was not engaging
As fo AOTCW I've been playing on the 191 planets map and it's sucked me in.
There's 5 factions, CIS, Republic, pirates, independents and the Hutts. Playing as CIS you can send Dooku to a pirate planet to get them to join your side without a fight.
I feel the focus is very muh on setting up good chokepoints and even if you're going to lose a fight it can be worth playing just to cause as much damage to your enemy as you can so when you do counter attack it will be much easier.
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>boot up AOTCW
>start the standard campaign
>see the extremely messy UI, oversaturated map
>lose all desire to play
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>>1926793
It does take some time getting used to, but it is the most immersive CW mod.
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Im so hyped for Reven's Revenge. I love the KOTOR games and its really cool how they'll implement a few RPG-esque features.
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Force wielders not auto healing and being unable to tank everything short of an orbital bombardment or bombing run is taking a bit for me to get used to in AOTCW
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>>1928516
I'm curious to what would crop up in independent forces' spawns. Just a hodgepodge of Sith and Republic ships?
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>>1928801
It would make sense. I'd imagine some Republic hardwere at the time would also be available on the civilian market and Mandalorian/Sith stuff are often adopted from other factions. Also some planets will probably have Hutt and Rakatan stuff. There's also planets like Kashyyk that can use local stuff existing at that time.
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>get within an inch of destroying Malevolence with nothing but the Acclamator 1s, Carracks, Judicators and Dreadnoughts from a medium shipyard
>foolishly try taking out its engines instead of the hull to make sure it doesn't escape
>non hardpoint turbolasers manage to wipe the garrison fleet
>lose 2 acclamators and a dreadnought on the counterattack fleet
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>>1928844
Is the subjugator that weak, or does it just get hard countered by smaller craft?
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>>1928936
Not entirely sure, but I was able to have the two carracks blast it with their ion cannons while the others tanked much of the damage.
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>>1928801

They've been incorporating stuff from the Tales of the Jedi Comics, so I'd presume some of the weirder looking ships from that.
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>>1928936
Light TLs get a hefty damage reduction against heavy hulls like the Dreadnought, but it has so damn many of them it doesn't really matter. Not counting the meme guns, it's about twice as tough and has twice as much firepower as a Lucrehulk battleship. Most of its guns are indestructible, but they also have somewhat limited firing arcs. Its AA guns are pretty weak for a CIS capital though.
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I really wish Steiner and EAWX would collab since EAWX has good galactic mechanics while Steiner mods has a good combat system.
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>>1929076
mein emperor... Steiner...
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>>1929056
Makes sense. In CW, it was wrecking Venators while being all but disabled by some bombers while not being able to shoot from behind. It's kind of stupid how they let the thing fly around without any escorts.
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>>1929342
>It's kind of stupid how they
Well, that describes a lot of the TCW show.
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>>1929017
They have? I know some of the Sith Droids and lesser capital ships, but what else did they use?
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What's the strat for munificients? I'm inclined to bait their attention with an acclamator, then drop dreadnoughts as close as I possibly can.
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>>1930174
Mod?
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>>1930232
Awakening of the Clone Wars, I've been letting the AI build for a bit too long while securing the core so now the CIS has a fleet with around 6 munificients with a decent amount of carriers and corvettes over ithor
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>>1930237
Not much experience playing Republic as I am a CIS guy, but I did find that munificents were very fragile and their bread and butter is that long range turbolaser. Your best bet is to rush them with close range ships, possibly bombers if you can and focus on the longrange lasers. Their kind of bad without it. Maybe try flanking them. I dont lnow if Republic corvettes ate good enough for that.
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>>1930174
Haven't tried Republic yet but they have light armor, can only really shoot forwards and will try to face their targets when commanded to attack something. Sending in Dreadnoughts from both sides to draw their fire while Arquitens pick them off from afar should work.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F59iXFl4Km4

Corey doing both a Republic and Sith RR preview playthrough.
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Is Kamino being completely inaccessible to anything but BX saboteurs a bug or feature?
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>>1930574
Kamino is supposed to be beyond the outer rim and an unknown location, innit?
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>>1930574
Part of the missions I'm guessing since I'm right now doing missions to destroy republic shipyards and set up an attack on it.
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>>1930528
Wouldn't it be more productive to reverse engineer the game instead of making yet another mod?
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>>1930679
maybe? Or hope that Petroglyph will release the source code, which would be the best option
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>>1930737
>release the source code
lol, Disney selling Star Wars is more likely
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>>1930679
>Wouldn't it be more productive to reverse engineer
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>>1930588
That lucherhulk is sexy as fuck.
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>>1925928
>>1925936
>>1925944
>>1925969
>>1926558
>They updated the crack, thank you saars
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>one of the republic juggernaught heroes in AOTCW uses voicelines from Medieval 2 Total War
Had to check my ears
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AI just launched a surprise attack in the south and north at the same time, Takodana was a pirate controlled planet all this time and they just suddenly took it and smashed into my backlines.
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>>1931158
Dooku can do that.
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>>1911928
>>1930588
There's something about the ships in AoTR and AoTCW that they look better than EAWX models. It looks like the Awakening ships have the grime and used look where the EAWX ships are too clean.
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>>1931240
I'd say the cleaner models do look better for CW era because it fits the movies better. Though GCW era should definitely be dirtier.
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Which faction will you be playing once Reven's Revenge comes out?
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I honestly forgot that infantry companies were separated into rifleman and heavies in the base game
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>>1932475
the based and redpilled one
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>>1932475
The Sith. The republic is too wholesome, while the mandos are too reddit.
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Anyone know when the playable missions will be in TR/FOTR/Revan's? Corey's been showing off the cutscenes for awhile
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>>1932475
CIS as always
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>>1932837
Hopefully never. I don't want to have to deal with story missions in Galactic Conquest because it disrupts the story that's unfolding through the gameplay.

The smaller story campaigns are fine and fairly interesting, though.
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>>1932475
Do what do in Age of Legends, between the Republic and Sith. Colony drop the Mandos, Space War now.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhsy-qCEhqs

Someone started a LP of RR.
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Corey said on his stream that January 30th is the planned release date for RR
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>>1936274
My dick is ready.
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Why when I got 2 lucrehulks out I only get 6 bombers instead of 12???
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>>1937015
Lucherhulks in most most mods tend to focus on fighters then bombers.
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>>1930737
>release
>reverse engineer
Just buy a license like the Steiner guys did; https://store.steampowered.com/app/347050/VolTalkes__The_AI_War/
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>>1937052
>Just buy a license like the Steiner guys did and do nothing with it
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>>1937108
Hey, I will have you know that they wasted their money on "migrant" "charities", and successfully put their half-assed work on steam, and then gave up and did nothing with it when they discovered that modding =/= video game development.
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>>1937015
In TR/FotR the standard squadron size is 12 craft, but they get grouped differently i.e. a small escort carrier with half a squadron listed will have one squadron of 6 craft, while something like a Lucrehulk with 6 squadrons listed will have three squadrons of 24 craft each.
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>>1937152
Surely a video game company didn't waste development money on charities.
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>>1937052
https://youtu.be/vU1jB5O8Hws
Oh that's the game Corey made a video making fun of and caused a falling out between Steiner and EAWX group for a bit? Apparently the people that made that game were booted from their modding group in the end.
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I tried playing a skirmish space match in the star trek mod but it felt completely unbalanced. Are you not meant to tech up?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEcHpitwQ1o

Corey posted new RR Republic LP.



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