I was going through the suggestion threads about different vehicle variants, and I had nothing to do for a good portion of the day, so I put some of the ideas to work and went to find out how many variants I could make of one tank design. I'll upload more later, this is all I got done so far. The original also looks slightly better, Photobucket decided to rape the colors when it uploaded it.
Holy. Jesus. You, sir, are made of awesome. FUCK. If I knew anything about modeling, I'd be doing one of those things just to make your paint-godliness not be a waste of time! To be honest, it looks like most of what you're asking for is just a change in the turret config of the BE medium. So all these ideas would really need is new turret models. And on a sidenote... I think I see how this could be done w/ research. You initially research a chassis, like "Medium Tank". This allows the plain old, standard Medium tank. That, however, contains it's own subgroups. Sure, you could achieve victory without them, but they're FUCKING COOL to have. EDIT: I put some thought in. Good me! Name: Seat #: #columns/thingx#things APC Variant: (1/driver) 1x1 cannon, 2x1 machine gun (2) 1x1mg (3) 1x1mg (4) 1x1mg Rocket Artillery: (1) 2x1 special rocket artillery slots (arty isn't a cannon like rocket arty isn't a missile) (perhaps 2x2) (2) 1x1 mg Calliope: No freakin' clue. Perhaps... (1) 2x1 cannon or 1x1 arty (not sure which), perhaps 1x3 rocket arty or 3x2 ml or something... (2) 1x1 mg Original Design: (1) 2x1 cannon, 1x1 mg, 2x1 missile (2) 1x1 mg Note that some of the non-driver MGs could instead be 2x1's, balance-depending. It'd make sense to mount .50 cals up in places like that, but then again that'd also allow anti-tank insanity.
You like? Tank destroyer: EDIT: I was also thinking that a lot of those extra vehicles could be made with a different turret (hell, in a pinch you could stick the APC turret on a medium and call it a Medium APC). Who's the lead modeller?
Tank Destroyer: (1) 3x1 cannon. And a fuckton of armor for good measure. And that's all, folks! Unless your nifty picture intends to add a second cannon for, say, 2x2 or 3x2 madness.
I'm just making these pictures because I'm bored, lol. They look nothing like the BE tanks, but the heavy'll probably have two cannons.
nice stuff. I support the idea of different turrets of tanks. Not too sure about all the ones you made, but definitly a great suggestion.
Me likes. I might at some point attempt modeling some things like this though im not that great. I know most of the basics in Blender and am learning the basics of Softimage|XSI .
how about the nf? What would you think of a sort of King Tiger tank for each side? what would those look like?
Rocket artillery would arc. And who uses arty these days anyway? See? It might just be useful! And remember, I noted that such a thing would PROBABLY be to ML slots as arty slots are to cannon slots. So basically, if such a thing were implemented, it would only make sense that rocket arty would arc.
Did you make that all by hand in MSpaint!?!? Nice concepts, Im going to try to learn modelling since im good at mapping (seems related). EDIT: Why is this in the off-topic forum? It should be moved to suggestions.
Yes I did, and now my hand hurts like no other. The thread was originally about some variants of a fictional tank I drew, but I guess they're now analogies for BE tanks.
Great work. The tank destroyer should have a cannon twice bigger, though, since the whole point of that vehicle is to have a big cannon, at the expense of poor manouverability and low armor. Draw some sort of übertank. Kind of like the MEGA-BOOMTANK I draw ages ago: http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=uusibittikartta3bh4.jpg Also; draw something like this:
i love the idea of a tank with very powerfull cannons but no missiles and mg's. Would be extremely powerfull against tanks, but shit against everything else. Huge armor piercing shells with no blast radius. Sounds awesome.
