What Would A Marine Apc Look Like?
Maus
Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5599Members
Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5599Members
<div class="IPBDescription">To place in my marines' spawn.</div> I had a groovy idea for how to do my marines' spawn last night, involving the use of an APC (not driveable). However, I know the dev team want everything kept within the parameters of their universe so I was wondering how an APC ought to look. Given that a lot of the marines' equipment seems based on modern weapons I was thinking of basing the APC on say an M113 or M3 Bradley, as used by the US Army (but adding the NS futuristic twang to it, of course), but I don't know whether that would be okay.
Suggestions?
Suggestions?
Comments
I would suggest a comparatively flat APC (in overall shape, not absolute dimensions), either tracked or wheeled, that would look like its designed for use on roads, not terrain. Since most areas of NS seem to be located in urbanised terrain.
How to?
When tracked, be sure to have the tracks have rubber surfaces, and always keep the ground clearance of the vehicle low, since it is not designed to move cross country, but to have high mobility on flat grounds. Bigger ground clearance will just increase framesize and volume of the vehicle, so keep it low.
It should have a large reardoor for fast mount/dismount, sloped armor is not really needed since designed to go versus Aliens, not anti armor threats, still it increases the looks, so maybe have a highly sloped front plate like 25°, and the top quarter of the sides 45°.
A turret, I would place it asymmetric on top of the hull, like front third of the vehicle, directly behind the frontal slope, and mounted to the left or right half of the vehicle when looking down from above.
Give it a twin or quad mount of rapidfire weapons, like autocannons, maybe a remote smallturret attached to fronthull as well, on the opposite side of where the main turret is.
So when Mturret is left, place the hullturret in front to the right front corner of the vehicle. Give it a single or twin MG mount.
You may give it a second, smaller door to the opposing side of the mainturret as well.
Some stuff like spikes, not too long, maybe half a meter (3 feet) to the frontal part (hey its going against beasts, not other vehicles <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->) may look neat too.
Ok just my thoughts on how I would design an APC for such a task <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Have you seen Universal Soldier with Dolph Lundgren and Jean Claude Van Damme?
(Btw, stupid <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->)
They had a truck that can build itself into a command station. Maybe make that APC not a combat vehicle, but a moving command post with no armament at all. In this case it would be more conveniant anyway, since why are all those fancy weapons not defending spawn?
New suggestion:
A long, wheeled flatbed vehicle, 4 wheels front, 4 wheels rear, in the middle a box that contains the commandpost. The box could look like it was deployed outwards, like the center box having twice the width of the original vehicle, and place some support pistons beneath them to the ground (like on a mobile crane).
THAT'S what you need. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Except without the cool turret =/
First off I was going to lightly flame you about not being at all helpful. Instead of that: Tell me, hotshot, what a NS dropship looks like.
Oh, and SamR - whenever anyone in IRC's started saying "Hey - why don't you base your map on [movie/book/tv show/whatever]" I've been quick to belittle them and deal out the slappage. This is NS, not <i>Aliens</i>.
ah well i hadnt thought about having made it big enough for an onos so thanks for that
Lighten up, jeezus, is this what happens to people when they spend too long on these forums?
I didn't say anything about basing a map on any "movie/book/tv show/whatever," I just said that the APC was sweet, and he could adapt it, as in, it could be big, with four wheels.
I hope I don't become pretentious and feel that I can flame and belittle anyone for the smallest of things.
This is a forum, not a ........ bad........ place...... appropriate to what I just said......
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A while back, before the mod was released, there were a few people making dropships. Can't remember who, I think one of them is in EC.
They have big round engines and quite small wings that I think fold up, like they're designed to be stored in folded stacks on a main spaceship.
Aw. I <i>knew</i> I should have put a smiley in there. All I mean is I'd rather do something more original, and I don't think the dev team want their APCs to look like they were lifted from movies or wherever.
Anyway, I have a basic design down now (it's kind of a souped-up Bradley). Thanks for the suggestions, people.
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