War for the Universe - Novian Fleet

[Necrontyr1998]

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<-The Novians->

The Novian Icon and flag

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The Novian species evolved from aquatic lizards in the helium rich sea's of the planet 'Nove' in the 'N'gan' Binary System. 'Nove' is covered in ocean and is characterized by its 576-year orbit. Novians developed into a civilised race at an alarming rate due to their incredibly fast ability to think, complex Novian language was formed in under 1 Nove-year. Nove developed space travel soon after the planets population reached 17bln to escape the over filling city's. Nove's closest neighbour 'Aege' became the first Novian colony despite being only 0.06% water. Space faring Novian's often wear 'Cilipad' Suite's to survive outside water. But over the few thousand years the species has spent away from their home planet, they have grown accustomed to walking on land and breathing humidified air.

Aege also became a hot-spot for industrial groups and a drydock for the new 'Voidships'. Mines were dug into Aege's mineral rich crust to fuel the huge ship-yards. Within a month of the first Voidship launch a Corporation called Mevec designed a ship series with a drive capable of inter-galactic travel. Most novian ships are now produced by Mevec corp.

Novian's have since taken up the role of exploring the galaxy to help further their technological advancement by exploiting, colonizing (and a bit of conquering) the planets they find.

Recently Novian forces have begun forcefully stealing tech from other species to fuel their lust for knowledge.

The Novian Fleet


Novian ships are coloured by the rich metals dug from Aege to form their strong carapace like void-armor. Mevec corp. owns half the mines on Aege and uses their materials in abundance. Mevec also specializes in missile tech for the Novian navy appearing in most ship designs. But Mevec has recently been under scrutiny for building ships with a distinct lack of defensive turrets.



TD13-Legacy
Bomber. Dangerous payload.


Zoomed in:


HP:25
Speed: 7
Turning: 3
Accel: 0.5
AI: flanking

Armaments:
4x Exterminatus missile pods


TD14-'Unity'
A lil' fighter.

Zoomed in:


HP: 25
Speed: 8
Turning: 2
Accel: 0.5
AI: Flanking

Armaments:

1x minimac gun
1x Voidlock missile pod

Fleet command realized that the bomber squadrens sent on their own rarely made it to their target. Enemy interceptors proved to be the problem, eliminating the 'Legacy' bombers before they were even in range. So a solution was formed: the 'Unity'.



TD01-Spark
Agile support craft, dangerous in numbers.


HP: 50
Speed: 6
Turning: 3
Accel: 0.25
AI: Normal

Armament's:
2x Gatling guns


TD02-Stinger
A little support ship with a punch!


HP: 50
Speed: 4.5
Turning: 2
Accel: 0.5
AI: Flanking

Armament's:
4x Voidlock Ripper missile battery's


TD03-Spather
medium corvette.


HP:150
Speed: 4
Turning: 0.5
Accel:0.5
AI: Flanking

Armament's:
2x Bloodline torpedoe battery's
1x Frequency 5 Photon lance


TD19 - 'Progression' Light Frigate

Fast assault ship. Teleporter.

HP: 300
Speed: 3
Turning: 1.5
Accel: 0.5
AI: Flanking

Armaments:

2x Exterminatus missile pods
1x Frequancy 3 Photon lance

First of the Novian fleet to be fitted with 1/3 'Deiterling' device's donated by the 'Watch' faction. Its teleporting ability's cause disarray within the enemy fleet and are very deadly in numbers.


TD04-Sanguine
Medium frigate.


HP: 200
Speed: 3
Turning: 0.5
Accel: 0.25
AI: Normal

Armament's:
4x Shredder Torpedoe battery's
1x Frequency 3 Photon lance


TD10-Salvation
Heavy Frigate. Laser may be overpowered.


HP: 300
Speed: 3
Turning: 0.5
Accel: 0.05
AI: Normal

Armament's:
2x Shredder Torpedoe battery's
2x Deathknell missile battery's
1x Frequency 1 Photon lance
6x Las guns


TD20 - 'Clarity'

Fast attack Battleship, heavy armour.

HP: 300
Speed: 3.25
Turning: 2.25
Accel: 0.05
AI: Flanking

Armaments:
4x 'Jurisdiction' (Their just re-coloured 'Faith' auto-cannons but the word 'Faith' is kinda against Novian ideology).
1x Frequency 2 photon lance


TD14 - Redemptor
Experimental Battleship (speed and agility)

HP: 400
Speed: 3.2
Turning:1.5
Accel: 0.5
AI: Normal

Armaments:
4x Shredder missile battery
2x ripper missile battery
6x Las gun's
1x Frequency 3 photon lance


TD21 - 'Scientia'

Long distance carrier

HP: 300
Speed: 1
Turning: 0.75
Accel: 0.05
AI: Normal

Armaments:
2x 'Jurisdiction' (Their just re-coloured 'Faith' auto-cannons but the word 'Faith' is kinda against Novian ideology).
2x Voidlock missile batterys


TD12-'Atheist'
Battle-carrier. Heavy armour.


HP: 500
Speed: 2.25
Turning: 0.75
Accel: 0.5
AI: normal

Armaments:
4x Bloodline missile batterys
4x Las guns
1x Frequancy 1 Photon lance

-2x hangers (Novian Legacy's)-

As the Novian colony's grew and the territory expanded, Nove soon realized that their fleets were insufficient to deal with the new threats that the galaxy had to offer. Technological efforts went towards the production of a new naval vessel, one capable of delivering firepower, support and enlightenment to the front lines. The 'Atheist' class battle-carrier was born.


TD15 - 'Eternity'
Big superheavy armoured dreadnaught.


HP: 700
Speed: 2.25
Turning: 0.75
Accel: 0.2
AI: normal

Armaments:

4x shredder missile batterys
4x Photon storm cannons
1x Frequency 2S Photon lance


TD17 - 'Neuron' Super-dreadnought

Largest ship in the common Novian navy.

HP: 1000
Speed: 2.25
Turning: 0.75
Accel: 0.05
AI: Flanking

Armaments:
2x Bombardment cannons
2x Bloodline missile battery's
4x Photon storm cannons
2x 'Spectrum' missile battery's
1x Frequency 1 'Secular' photon lance array

/\ This ship is only available in the 1.4 download as it is a WIP.

Civilian and Freelance ships


TDC-01 - Novian Freighter

Complacently unarmed but for one defensive turret. also is equipped with the most technologically advanced shield available from 'Mevec corp.' Often used to carry munitions to war-zones.

HP: 300
Speed: 3
Turning: 0.5
Accel: 0.5

TDC-17 Novian Miner

Civi's with attitude!

HP: 300
Speed: 3.5
Turning: 0.75
Accel: 0.05

Armaments:
2x Heavy duty mining lasers

TDC-18 Novian station

Heavily armored and armed

HP: 1000
Average armor HP: 1600

Armaments:
4x frequency 1 photon lances
4x Bombardment cannons


The downloads

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Fleet download 1.0 : https://www.dropbox.com/s/gcf4tuvl0k7ay ... 0fleet.zip
Fleet download 1.1:

Novian fleet 1.1.zip

(39.27 KiB) Downloaded 308 times

Fleet download 1.2:

Novian fleet 1.2.zip

Ship tweeks and 'purge' mines

(44.44 KiB) Downloaded 306 times

Fleet download 1.3:

Novian fleet 1.3.zip

Moar ship tweeks and 'Neuron' added

(51.85 KiB) Downloaded 304 times

Fleet download 1.4:

Novian fleet 1.4.zip

Novian miner and station addaed

(63.14 KiB) Downloaded 313 times

Fleet download 1.5:

Novian fleet 1.5.zip

Added: 'Clarity', 'progression', 'scientia' and a half finished 'Neuron'.

(75.72 KiB) Downloaded 347 times

[R0ni]

( ^ _^) Hihi. Interesting thus far + the nice picture of race. Again quite unique ship designs, breaking some repeatitive designs seen in War for the universe. The ships of yours seem to have little armour, but I suppose they are "balanced" by other means. Have you tried them against other war for the universe ships yet?

[Necrontyr1998]

I had a go at doogie's Mior ship's with equal fleet size's and it seemed fairly equal in fire exchange but they beat me by two 'Minaret' class ships (I might have underestimated them a bit).

[Doogie12]

That doesn't mean much. I'm fairly certain I overpowered those guys. Especially the Minaret.

[calvin1211]

I think you're using too many of the particularly big sections (for the larger ships at least).

[Necrontyr1998]

Well with the Claymore I was going for a heavy armor plated effect whilst I left room for the guns. It will probably look better when it's armed (Im planing on putting some big triple gun turrets on the two platforms -Marine Warfare style!).

[CryoSleep]

i don't know about the 2nd one it looks like it has no details but some of your ships are nice and you might want to check the wings of the mace as it does not fit the ships, either add some sections to the front or shorten the length of the wings

[Necrontyr1998]

check the wings of the mace as it does not fit the ships, either add some sections to the front or shorten the length of the wings

I thought exactly that, I think ill make the wing's smaller and sweep them back at an angle.

But in other news: The 'Claymore' is armed!

many guns

See armament details on initial post.

[calvin1211]

To be honest, I'm not a fan of these ships. With the exception of the Spather and Spark, which are still decent, the rest are pretty bad, for a number of reasons:
1. Section choice. You've overused the really big sections, and instead of breaking it up with smaller sections, you've just repeated the big bits over and over again. As a result, the ships end up looking really flat and boring, as well as severely lacking in detail (which is really important in War for the Universe due to the focus on smaller ships). You've basically done the shiny equivilent of spamming Stock_22, which I should note is really ugly.
2. Shape. The overall shape of the ships here was not executed well. It's not hard to make the penisbrick shape work, and there's nothing inherently wrong with it, but with the way you handled it, your ships look like giant bricks made from smaller bricks. They're not even interesting-looking bricks either.
3. Size. This is a much more minor quibble, and mostly due to them supposedly being meant for War for the Universe. No-one is stopping you from making really big ships, but bear in mind War for the Universe focuses more on the small end of shipbuilding. The big bruisers, the Arasaw and Maelstrom, are only around size 200 and 150 respectively. Your cruisers are alreadly enroaching onto that size, and the corvette is easily bigger than the other faction's destroyers, so you might want to keep that in mind.

Hopefully this will help you improve your shipbuilding. Look around more at how other shipbuilder made their ships, and learn from them. And don't worry, you'll get better with time and experience. My first ships were really shitty as well.

[Necrontyr1998]

Something is telling me my ship's need revising....

[CryoSleep]

Accurate as always calvin.

[R0ni]

( ^u^)o I must point out that I like dese ships despite their rather simplistic design. And surely those are bettah than my first ones meant for war for the universe. I suppose Calvin is right about some of the points made - but of course that is just opinion. Mine is not that strong, but sure, see if you can improve your vessels.

Still interested in getting to test em. Rawr..

[Necrontyr1998]

I think I see the problem, I've been trying to use sprite's with an industrial sorta feel to them but there arn't many sprites that would fit the theam and be generic to the other ship's designs (also the reason i repeatedly used large blocky sections).

So i've gone for an all together different style:

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[Necrontyr1998]

Two more revises:

New 'Spather'

May be overpowered

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New 'Tomahawk'

Look's like a 'Reaper' from ME3

/\ i've been playing Mass Effect too much

[R0ni]

( o.o)/ leap into better. And surely unique style compared to rest of the factionns. Keep dat up!