Revealed Units [04/05/2013]

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To be honest, the one labeled as a transport is very small, I'd think it was more likely to be a Gunship.

Mike

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The ? tank in question is mobile artillery I think. Look at the gun pointing up at an angle like the static artillery cannons.

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It is the asteroid propulsion unit!

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I don't think there will be a problem with that. If it's in the sea - it's a ship. Nothing to recognise.

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Doubtful IMO, they already have an asset for that and it feels a bit too small for it.

Mike

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My guess would be something like Scout, Medium Infantry, Light Infantry.

Something a la the Warrior/Rocko and the Peewee.

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Totally agree, they should be floating gun platforms, not traditional "human" ships.

I was thinking single-unit transport, like in TA, but it's possible it's a gunship.

I agree, only just realised that was a barrel.

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A couple of people have reported this, not sure why. The images are hosted on my private server, as I originally was going to use tinypic but was worried that would cause leaks of backer-only material.

I can assure you they are only images, so it's safe to unblock. If you know how I can avoid it thinking they are suspicious, please let me know.

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That robot warship has a big tower in the middle, too...

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Yes, but it doesn't look like a modern bridge. I'm not sure, but I think there is even a gun on it, though putting (obviously robotic) sensors would work as well.
Btw, is that the warship in Ghost in the Shell 2? I remember that it did look pretty great for something not like a modern warship.

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Yep, that's it. It's on screen for about five seconds in total, yet obviously hard to forget

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I see no reason that the ship models shown couldn't have another gun on top of the tower, too

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I think that just about all of the aircraft look amazing. From what we can see of the tanks, they look great. The smaller ships and subs look good.

I am inclined to agree with Radistmorse, about the larger ships. The hull design is fine. I like all of the weapons turrets, and sensor modules. The only part that looks out of place is the conning tower/bridge section. Unless the ship has a crew, why have a bridge designed for a crew? That being said, it may be interesting to have larger ships possibly have a small crew. Warships appear to be the biggest of all the units currently. I don't see why a few smaller bots couldn't be hidden aboard that spring to action when needed. Maybe a repair crew, or small arms team to aid in engaging numerous smaller targets at close range, while the main guns focus on larger targets. If the ships keep the bridge, than they should probably have a crew. If there is no crew, than its probably best to remove the bridge, and replace it with a processor core, or sensor array, or an extra gun.

My only other concern is the selection of infantry. I may be jumping the gun on this, as I know it is still early in development. The few infantry that are displayed look pretty good, but there seems to be so few of them compared to tanks, boats, and aircraft.

Aside from that I think just about everything else looks awesome.

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Ignore the look of the T2 factories - Uber have stated they are placeholders, and literally scaled-up versions of the T1 model. This will definitely change.

This applies to pretty much every other unit also - it's all WIP, but I'll update the posts with information as it comes in.

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Good to hear.

I'm still concerned about the boats and infantry though.

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Don't be concerned about anything. Nothing is final. We can easily change the boats and in fact had a conversation about it today. I still want them to evoke real naval vessels but we can and will make changes...

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Honestly I don't think there is any issue with Boats, they have a nice size in comparison to land units and have a good variation in scale within the range of naval units themselves.

Mike

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I think this is really important. I said it in another thread but I would really like to see ships, not just floating metal platforms with guns poking out

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Imho the missile ship might also be a transport ship. At least it's model makes me think so, because regular freight-ships have their freight in front of their tower, which is located in the back of the ship.
Missile ships usually have a tower in the front part of their hull and VLS located behind it.

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I would suggest considering using the DDG-1000 or LCS slopping style towers for the ships. More high tech and modern looking but you still get the idea of naval ships.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Zumwalt_(DDG-1000)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littoral_Combat_Ship