Sterbelicht - One Sacrifice At A Time Against The Galaxy (40K)

What should your focus for the rest of the Quest be?

  • Mercy (Diplomacy and Expansion)

    Votes: 210 74.7%

  • Ruthlessness (Kick the Duchy in the Balls)

    Votes: 66 23.5%

  • Thule (Yeeni Handholding and Piscarian Cuddling)

    Votes: 107 38.1%
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Always Late said:
... Call me crazy, but that first one is just straight up an enlarged Battletech design. Not a 100% match to anything, but the weapon balance, arrangement, and boxiness is dead-on aesthetically. The other one's closer to Armored Core's aesthetic.

[X] Valiant Battle Titan

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It was a rush job by an inexperienced artist willing to do it for free because they thought it was an interesting project, I'm still amazed I managed to get something bespoke even if it's scuffed.

Glad you llked it though!
 
Always Late said:
... Call me crazy, but that first one is just straight up an enlarged Battletech design. Not a 100% match to anything, but the weapon balance, arrangement, and boxiness is dead-on aesthetically. The other one's closer to Armored Core's aesthetic.

[X] Valiant Battle Titan

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I used the Bawls Heavy MT as an inspiration so its good to see that my drawing wasn't bad enough to make the AC aesthetic unrecognizable
 
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    • Scheduled vote count started by HeroCooky on Oct 18, 2024 at 5:30 PM, finished with 48 posts and 33 votes.
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    • 269.M43 - The Immensa Immensus
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    • Fluff Incoming Tomorrow. You now have 4 Titans of the Immensa Immensus Size only one Action away. They are fully capable of demolishing half of one of your Grand Sector Armies if they are operating as a quintet.

    Now Please Deliberate:
    (6-Hour Moratorium)
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    Things like; Herald of the Dawn, Bronze Ingot, Crows' Feastbringer, Ignited Defiance, Triumph of the Child, and Innocent's Glory
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    Primary, Secondary, Accent, and Highlights, alongside symbols.
     
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    • Wow

    Okay, yeah, that's worth it.

    "These are four units, if you deploy them in one place, they can kill roughly half of a sub-sector Army Group"

    Force Concentration Matters!
     
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    Honestly the Tetrapod Titan design would work just as well for the weight class above the battle titan acting as long range fire support for the Valiants while the Valiant Titans are our general combat Titans.
     
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    HeroCooky said:
    Fun Fact: A Deus Machina would kill two Grand Sector Armies if equipped with ammunition-independent weaponry! :]
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    I mean, yeah, but I didn't want to invest in that for our very first Titan! It didn't feel right, you know?

    Warbringer size is a pretty damn solid first attempt!

    Ah, that aside, on an unrelated note, now that we have a designed Grand Cruiser, does that change the cost on the base stats at all? Or are Supercapital level cost reductions only on deck for the Necron Research? Even after the first prototype rolls out?
     
    HeroCooky said:
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    I'mma keep with the Battletech vibe. For the memes.
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    My bias will absolutely not be showing at all.

    [][Name] (Charger Bold, Wolf of the Woods, Brachyura Rex, Defiant Phoenix)
    [][Color Scheme] (Olive Drab primary, dark green secondary, highlights indicate veterancy level, Totemic heraldry for individual unit on flag, Legio unit mark on chest.)

    If any of these choices are not very, very obvious in their source, then I'm not doing my job.
     
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    hmm . . .

    our first steps
    roaring trailblazer
    silent wanderer
    trail of sparks
    crownless king
    final impact
    mercy so small
    daybreak reactor
    sundering skylines
    Chaos Killer
    grudgebearing spirit
    starchild's toy soldier
    twin wishing stars
    pillar of stardust
    eyes of wisdom
    recoiling destructor
    unspoken declaration
    Gap between worlds
    Valkyrie, descending
    5 white wings
    scales of judgement
    freedom manifest
    Pride and Glory
    walking cradle
    when trees are grass
    incarnation of myth
    pioneer of the battlefield
    kindleheart
    howling strider
    ghost of iron
    stampeding steel
    stardust crusader
    brilliance unbound
    stigmata of virtue
    wailing wildfire
    flock of doves
    scars of valor
    conqueror of labors
    tombstone of villains
    faith and reason
     
    Anyway, since we need more Grand Cruisers to work with, I've been trying to think up what a good design would be that we could do if it turns out we still can't Pull the Trigger.

    [] [Heavy Cruiser] Phoenix-class Arc Cruiser
    -[] Length     - 7.600 Meters (-4 DP)
    -[] Width - 1.800 Meters (-3 DP)
    -[] Acceleration - 2.4 Gravities (-3 DP)
    -[] Armor - Thick Fortress Armor (-4 DP)
    -[] Shields - Two Aegides (-3 DP)
    -[] Weapons - 4x Green Arc Cannon Turrets/2x Green Arc Lance Batteries (-21 DP)
    -[] Equipment - (Standard) Ship Shrines/Armored Lifepods/Pure Lenses/Tuned Shields/(Standard) Superior Gravimetric Engine Calculations/Lattice Hulls/Enhanced Strategium/Augmetic Security Department/Veteran Crews/Yeeni Auxillary Engineer Division/Lense Cogitation Matrix Lattice (-25 DP)

    The Glimmering Federation's first foray into the wild frontier of what's been titled as "Concrete Mastercraft"--the official designation granted to the arts wielded by the precursor species behind the black-green ships that had been found and carefully observed in the days of the past. The Phoenix-class is equipped as a dedicated energy weapons platform, taking the best of the best crew and officers and placing them in the first vessel that can actually utilize our crude copies of those ancient works. A Grand Cruiser straddling the border of being a proper Battleship, it carries a tremendous number of Concrete Arc Weapons, compensating for our rudimentary grasp of the principles through sheer redundancy and overbuilding, utilizing the very pinnacle of the Star-Mechanicum's science to augment the emitters just enough to approach the intended strength of the design.

    Suffice to say, the Phoenix-class--even as a prototype--has firepower utterly unmatched by any known vessels in our galactic neighborhood, requiring none of the highly demanded Choirs to achieve its functionality, though whether it will warrant a production model depends entirely on the results of its first deployment and its performance in battle, though it is hoped that the high skill of the crew and the extended engineering departments can compensate for the beyond bleeding edge quality of its armaments.

    So I came up with a ship that's designed to use a full armament of Necron Derived Guns so we can see what 7 DP base cost guns that require a Grand Cruiser minimum to equip can do.

    DO YOU RIKE IT?
     
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    Always Late said:
    It sounds like someone tried to make a Necron cruiser. But if the Necrons are 1945 battleships, the person had 1890s technology.
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    Yeah, at the end of the day, pushing to the Advanced tech tier isn't going to be easy, is that the reward for getting Heavy Industry XX or something @HeroCooky ? Or is going from High Imperial to Advanced gated behind All-(Something) or just overall Research done?

    But yeah, even if it's not a Necron Cruiser, it's still probably going to eat most ships in the galaxy alive given how scary their weapons are. Even if these are a pale shadow of what they could be if we actually knew what we were doing.
     
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    Alectai said:
    Probably a whole lot, though I'm saving our Fleet Carrier for when we unlock Battleships after we Pull the Trigger.
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    Yeah, I mean the Grand Cruiser we have had ten weapons, ten Hangars seems like it'd be possible and that'd only/"only" cost 15 DP.
    Alectai said:
    Anyway, since we need more Grand Cruisers to work with, I've been trying to think up what a good design would be that we could do if it turns out we still can't Pull the Trigger.

    [] [Heavy Cruiser] Phoenix-primus Experimental Weapons Cruiser
    -[] Length     - 7.600 Meters (-4 DP)
    -[] Width - 1.800 Meters (-3 DP)
    -[] Acceleration - 2.4 Gravities (-3 DP)
    -[] Armor - Thick Fortress Armor (-4 DP)
    -[] Shields - Two Aegides (-3 DP)
    -[] Weapons - 4x Green Arc Cannon Turrets/2x Green Arc Lance Batteries (-21 DP)
    -[] Equipment - Armored Lifepods/Pure Lenses/Tuned Shields/Superior Gravimetric Engine Calculations/Lattice Hulls/Enhanced Strategium/Augmetic Security Department/Yeeni Auxillary Engineer Division/Elite Crews (-25 DP)

    The Glimmering Federation's first foray into the wild frontier of what's been titled as "Concrete Mastercraft"--the official designation granted to the arts wielded by the precursor species behind the black-green ships that had been found and carefully observed in the days of the past. The Phoenix-primus is equipped as a dedicated energy weapons platform, taking the best of the best crew and officers and placing them in the first vessel that can actually utilize our crude copies of those ancient works. A Grand Cruiser straddling the border of being a proper Battleship, it carries a tremendous number of Concrete Arc Weapons, compensating for our rudimentary grasp of the principles through sheer redundancy and overbuilding, utilizing the very pinnacle of the Star-Mechanicum's science to augment the emitters just enough to approach the intended strength of the design.

    Suffice to say, the Phoenix-primus--even as a prototype--has firepower utterly unmatched by any known vessels in our galactic neighborhood, requiring none of the highly demanded Choirs to achieve its functionality, though whether it will warrant a production model depends entirely on the results of its first deployment and its performance in battle, though it is hoped that the high skill of the crew and the extended engineering departments can compensate for the beyond bleeding edge quality of its armaments.

    So I came up with a ship that's designed to use a full armament of Necron Derived Guns so we can see what 7 DP base cost guns that require a Grand Cruiser minimum to equip can do.

    DO YOU RIKE IT?
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    Honestly shouldn't we take some of the Necron-Tech options before going all in on a "Necrotech" ship? We have a bunch of Research options to poke at that we're planning on doing soonish...
     
    The Laurent said:
    Yeah, I mean the Grand Cruiser we have had ten weapons, ten Hangars seems like it'd be possible and that'd only/"only" cost 15 DP.


    Honestly shouldn't we take some of the Necron-Tech options before going all in on a "Necrotech" ship? We have a bunch of Research options to poke at that we're planning on doing soonish...
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    I'm thinking actually getting field experience using what we've already derived might help future advancements there, you can only learn so much in laboratory conditions.

    But this is mostly only a consideration if we still can't Pull The Trigger.
     
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