"The Caestus Assault Ram" Topic
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| Tango01 | 11 Jun 2016 11:15 p.m. PST |
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| Mardaddy | 12 Jun 2016 10:39 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 12 Jun 2016 11:30 a.m. PST |
No!!!!!!!!. (smile) I like it so much!!! (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| Der Krieg Geist | 12 Jun 2016 5:46 p.m. PST |
Looks like the demented older brother of the Space Wolves "Flying Dumpster of Doom". For the life of me I cannot imagine how a troop transporter, configured in this manner, would possibly work. If it is meant as a boarding vessel against enemy star-ships, how are its puny weapons going to breach the hulls of said warships. And then…drop ramps? because you blast a perfect hole in the shape of the two ramps and the area behind your new breach just happens to be perfectly clear to accommodate your silly drop ramps?
If if is meant as an orbit to ground troop delivery system then it is an even more terrible design…
I also agree…..headlights? why does it have freaking headlights? The pilot can only see out f a tiny straight forward vision block flanked by the intakes of the engines? intakes??? |
| Mardaddy | 12 Jun 2016 6:25 p.m. PST |
Der Krieg Geist, See those two guns in between the two boarding areas? Those are multi-meltaguns. In 40k fluff, meltaguns turn metal and whatnot to slag, so this would conceivably shoot while in the last stages of ramming that newly-created-hole-or-weak spot. These house troops that are completely environmentally suited, so if they don't "plug" the hole they created with the ram and slag, THEY don't have to worry about the vacuum of space, all the better if the enemy DOES. I've explained all I can. Everything else, you're right, is pap… headlights, "intakes," yep… pap. There was a pretty OK webcomic series that ran for a few years called "Turn Signals on a Landraider," it was ran by a 40k fanboy and good-naturedly made fun of stupid things like you are pointing out here (and other 40k rules, 40k gamer-culture, etc.) It's been defunct for a while, but still worth going back to. tsoalr.com/?p=1 |
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