The Zegru Section
Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 2:56 am
Hi all, i am trying to improve and tried to build a first race! If it catches your eyes, i might convert them for the metagame! 
Doodads are still missing, i need to completely figure them out!
The Zegru are a race of small and strong arachnid creatures who live on rocky landscapes. During the centuries the Zegru have encountered alien visitors on their own planet, but these visitors called the Zegru "noteable wildlife" and left shortly. This event changed the arachnid society forever. The Zegru have a very unique culture as they quickly adapt to new animals, species and natural events.
Venturing slowly into space, the careful and overall friendly Zegru are encountered as beehives. They move slowly and establish up small camps with each expansion into space. Zegru ships are very defensively formed, meant to travel in groups and swarms. Every "swarm" is rumored to have a very large herd vessel, which could be seen as a multi-functional mothership (resource operations, command, production) but none of these has been seen yet.
It is rather uncommon to find a Zegru ship travelling alone.
The TT is a common swarmcraft, armed with 2 torpedoes with no spare ammunition. The TT is mostly a scout craft checking around the enviroment, mining areas or possible enemy locations.
In battle they mostly serve as bomber craft, preferring damaged vessels with their single torpedo attack before returning to carrier craft.
The TTL is a very large, armored front assault unit. With bomberd behaviour this corvette sized bomber unit can hunt and kill enemy frigates and corvettes on its own. The TTL is only seen in combat and so dubbed a "strike craft". The front mounted cannon together with a pack of torpedoes makes this a fearsome bomber, but very fragile for anything else.
The GTL trades heavy weaponry for armor and defensive weaponry. Nearly a frigate in size and the same combat behaviour, the GTL is a defensive unit defending important assets and hunting strike craft. It's armed with 4 fast tracking turrets firing small rounds in a rapid storm.
Coming into larger craft, this unit is a FFL being a frigate sized unit. This is mostly a leader unit of the smallest exploration groups, serving as a supply carrier and tactical command vessel. With 2 medium cannons and 2 fast small turrets, it can hold on its own against minor enemies. the FFL also formes the backbone frigate in minor battles.
DFF vessels are defensively oriented, protecting large assets with their reasonable array of 3 single medium turrets, but 4 small tracking turrets as the GTL.
DFD units are the offensive versions of the DFF vessels, less armor and defensive turrets have been traded for slightly more speed and 2 dual medium guns. The medium guns are reinforced with multiple (3) torpedo launchers make this a deadly destroyer unit, designed to deal off with many types of frigates or similar sized ships.
As promised, i have begun working on my own sprite set for this game, as it is lots of fun!
Thanks for many section designers to figure out the shading of this game.
More is on the way, hope you guys like how i made them. Tried to improve and lurk around these forums
Doodads are still missing, i need to completely figure them out!The Zegru are a race of small and strong arachnid creatures who live on rocky landscapes. During the centuries the Zegru have encountered alien visitors on their own planet, but these visitors called the Zegru "noteable wildlife" and left shortly. This event changed the arachnid society forever. The Zegru have a very unique culture as they quickly adapt to new animals, species and natural events.
Venturing slowly into space, the careful and overall friendly Zegru are encountered as beehives. They move slowly and establish up small camps with each expansion into space. Zegru ships are very defensively formed, meant to travel in groups and swarms. Every "swarm" is rumored to have a very large herd vessel, which could be seen as a multi-functional mothership (resource operations, command, production) but none of these has been seen yet.
It is rather uncommon to find a Zegru ship travelling alone.
The TT is a common swarmcraft, armed with 2 torpedoes with no spare ammunition. The TT is mostly a scout craft checking around the enviroment, mining areas or possible enemy locations.
In battle they mostly serve as bomber craft, preferring damaged vessels with their single torpedo attack before returning to carrier craft.
The TTL is a very large, armored front assault unit. With bomberd behaviour this corvette sized bomber unit can hunt and kill enemy frigates and corvettes on its own. The TTL is only seen in combat and so dubbed a "strike craft". The front mounted cannon together with a pack of torpedoes makes this a fearsome bomber, but very fragile for anything else.
The GTL trades heavy weaponry for armor and defensive weaponry. Nearly a frigate in size and the same combat behaviour, the GTL is a defensive unit defending important assets and hunting strike craft. It's armed with 4 fast tracking turrets firing small rounds in a rapid storm.
Coming into larger craft, this unit is a FFL being a frigate sized unit. This is mostly a leader unit of the smallest exploration groups, serving as a supply carrier and tactical command vessel. With 2 medium cannons and 2 fast small turrets, it can hold on its own against minor enemies. the FFL also formes the backbone frigate in minor battles.
DFF vessels are defensively oriented, protecting large assets with their reasonable array of 3 single medium turrets, but 4 small tracking turrets as the GTL.
DFD units are the offensive versions of the DFF vessels, less armor and defensive turrets have been traded for slightly more speed and 2 dual medium guns. The medium guns are reinforced with multiple (3) torpedo launchers make this a deadly destroyer unit, designed to deal off with many types of frigates or similar sized ships.
As promised, i have begun working on my own sprite set for this game, as it is lots of fun!
Thanks for many section designers to figure out the shading of this game.
More is on the way, hope you guys like how i made them. Tried to improve and lurk around these forums
