Huh, actually.
The closest thing we have with the Firestorm is the Needlestorm infantry fighting vehicle but it uses exotics and hasn't been upgraded to include any defensive systems. It is possible to replace the Fateshredder with its equivalent of three heavy needlers + a additional heavy weapon plus holofield and grav-shield.
Those void strike craft are aircraft, according to the game mechanics.
As we see here, where vehicle grade weapons are perfectly good enough for the militant craft world.
While the Fury is larger it probably isn't any more well armored than a Lightning since they both use Lascannons as their primary weapon.
Can I ask why you're going with medium armour for the Light-Grav? If this is gonna be a troop carrier wouldn't it make more sense to make it a little more durable (barring the shields + holos) to help protect the crew?
Does a Vehicle Holofield not make the Smoke Grenade Pods redundant, considering the Holofield can already just mimic smoke clouds around the vehicle? And I don't think we'd be fielding one of these without a Holofield, right? Especially if we're going to give it Light Armour not Medium, we might want the Basic Refractor Field Generator instead of the grenades.
Quite possibly, yeah. I've been looking at the builds we could make using a Grav Shield, but the thing is, Grav Shields are expensive for the number of guns a Jetbike is carrying.
While the Fury is larger it probably isn't any more well armored than a Lightning since they both use Lascannons as their primary weapon.
While the greater size of the Fury should increase its ability to absorb damage I suspect that any weapon that can hurt a Lightning will be able to deal damage to a Fury.
Note in the picture that the Lascannons on both the Lightning and Fury are comparable in size based on scaling to the humans in the images though the Fury does carry significantly more weapons.Fury
Lightning
Oops, meant to say why you're going with Light instead of Medium
A second "Further Improve Engine Size" would help with future proofing the design since with only 8 unused System slots there is no room for anything else if we go for a 2x Grav-Shield + Holo-Field combo (alternatively if our Conversion Fields are 4 Slots apiece since they are noted for being bulky then we could sub in one Grav-Shield for a Conversion Field for better coverage against AoE and guided weapons).
That makes sense, still though, I think the extra armour could be worth the reduction in speed
Yeah.
Because the bright eagle is listed as a strike craft and a vehicle. Because all of Zahr-Tann's strike craft are listed with their other vehicles rather than being separated into their own list or included in the naval vessel list instead. You know, from the relevant info and thread posts.
These are somewhat redundant with holofields. You'd be better off grabbing grenades for the possibility we design a model who's guns are intended more for anti power armor/light vehicle work than dealing with nearby infantry.
Agreed. The extra slot could come in handy either way. Either we can use it to squeeze in a conversion field or we go with a model with 3 vehicle and 1 heavy weapon slot for the holo field + 2 grav shields model.
As above I support grenade launchers for anti-personnel aoe for if our heavy weapon is designed more for power armored foes rather than clearing out concentrations of light or medium infantry.
Not actually correct. You can simply elect to not put anything in the slot, which incurs no additional cost for removal and applies no restriction on how it is used.
