Alright, I know the suspendium dust tanks should only be used for the $200 duels, but I love it! I love making old age style airships that use no coal whatsoever! No, in consideration of this, I was wondering if we could have some more archiac weapons!
Like, for instants, Whitefox's mod (Bless his/her pointy little head) has an arbalest and a ballista. That could work, but with a catapult as well you can only mount on the roof! While we're at it, why not make a bomb dropper that only drops giant rocks!
Ya it does! It'd probably be some kind of gear thing they walk on! Think Mad Max: Fury Road's giant wheel the half lives walked on to get the lift working
Treadmills were originally intended for cheap prison labor (or at-least before fitness ones existed), I feel like this would work well for super cheap manual treads.
Fair enough... How about Sky oars? Like how ancient Greek warships had hundreds of slaves to push their ships whit para... How about something similar?
Alright then... It seems we don't want archaic propulsion methods... Then what about a er, well, ah... You know what just look at this image 0WUgCWfWrgMC42lH
Edit: Well then... It seems I can't show a image. I'll just explain it then. You probably know the ancient greek, Archimedes was supposed to have built many war inventions that mythbusters apparently had to cover. One particular invention was some sort of giant magnifying glass that was supposed to be used to burn down enemy ships. How about we have that in airships?
Yeah, solar weapons have been proposed previously, and the main issue is indeed that they would only be effective in broad daylight.
Trebuchets and ballistas could be a thing - and the Romans fielded ballistae on their warships. But given that cannon are just really very much better, this would have to be a weapon for some kind of low-tech scenario only.
I like the idea of them being for a specific bane in the game (air nomads/tribes) that rely specify on super shoddy but very numerous aircraft and maybe some boarding tactics.
I think they would be designs that have no backwall and you can see the crew moving about very fast, they'd have stronger module HP to compensate and come in large swarms of small airships made of usually 1x1 modules.
I think that'd be pretty cool for air tribes. Basically waging war on flying weaponized platforms rather than actual airships.
A cool reward might be 'tribal reinforcing techniques' or something that gives you a +5% module HP for all your airships.
"Tribal reinforcing techniques"... That DOES seem kinda cool, but I would much prefer an actual weapon or something you can physically use in the game...
Commander
Alright, I know the suspendium dust tanks should only be used for the $200 duels, but I love it! I love making old age style airships that use no coal whatsoever! No, in consideration of this, I was wondering if we could have some more archiac weapons!
Like, for instants, Whitefox's mod (Bless his/her pointy little head) has an arbalest and a ballista. That could work, but with a catapult as well you can only mount on the roof! While we're at it, why not make a bomb dropper that only drops giant rocks!
Anyone else got some good ideas?
Air Admiral
Trebuchet? Other siege weapons?
Commander
Respawn, that's a good plan! But a Trebuchet is a stationary weapon. They'd have to put it in a building only (To keep lore friendly)
OH! YOU GAVE ME AN IDEA!
Let's have a manpowered landship tracks! Like old age galley slaves but on land!
Air Admiral
That... Actually sounds awesome!
Commander
Ya it does! It'd probably be some kind of gear thing they walk on! Think Mad Max: Fury Road's giant wheel the half lives walked on to get the lift working
Commander
Doof warrior forever
Air Admiral
We don't talk about that game...
Air Lord, Engineering Corps
Treadmills were originally intended for cheap prison labor (or at-least before fitness ones existed), I feel like this would work well for super cheap manual treads.
This ain't your fitness treadmill.
Commander
FIREBIRD I LOVE YOU!
That's what I meant when I said it!
Air Admiral
Alrighty... So how about archaic MELEE weapons? Like a giant spear or something?
Commander
Isn't that a ram? We already gave those
Air Admiral
Alright... How about some giant fireball launcher?
Commander
A catapult ya, even throwing pots filled with fire oil.
Air Admiral
You're depriving me of ideas... How about a machine that launches rotting corpses or something? I'm telling Im out of ideas...
Commander
That's actually a good plan! But not for Airship. Do yourself a favour and play Stronghold Crusader.
Air Admiral
Fair enough... How about Sky oars? Like how ancient Greek warships had hundreds of slaves to push their ships whit para... How about something similar?
Commander
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Respawn, go into the propulsion tab right now and look for airsails. It is indeed a thing
Air Admiral
So we already have one propulsion system with no coal usage. How about we make another?
Air Admiral
Alright then... It seems we don't want archaic propulsion methods... Then what about a er, well, ah... You know what just look at this image 0WUgCWfWrgMC42lH
Edit: Well then... It seems I can't show a image. I'll just explain it then. You probably know the ancient greek, Archimedes was supposed to have built many war inventions that mythbusters apparently had to cover. One particular invention was some sort of giant magnifying glass that was supposed to be used to burn down enemy ships. How about we have that in airships?
Commander
Archaic propulsion midair needs to be feasible at the very least.
That is an awesome plan! Sadly mythbusters busted it but nonetheless we could use that as a special Sun heraldry weapon
Air Admiral
I didn't even think about That! That sounds awesome!
Commander
.........problem is it won't be able to be used at night....
so insta flee every time you meet your foes at night!
Air Admiral
That seems like a reasonable cost to pay for using that weapon.
Commander
Oi! Everyone else! Show thy opinions of this shit!
Air Admiral
Er... Yes please give your opinion on this cough Zark cough.
Aerial Emperor
Yeah, solar weapons have been proposed previously, and the main issue is indeed that they would only be effective in broad daylight.
Trebuchets and ballistas could be a thing - and the Romans fielded ballistae on their warships. But given that cannon are just really very much better, this would have to be a weapon for some kind of low-tech scenario only.
Air Lord, Engineering Corps
I like the idea of them being for a specific bane in the game (air nomads/tribes) that rely specify on super shoddy but very numerous aircraft and maybe some boarding tactics.
Commander
I second Firebird's plan. Maybe make them ridiculously cheap/low maintenance as well
Aerial Emperor
So, uh, everything changed when the air nomads attacked?
Aerial Emperor
But yeah, I like the idea of a "tribe" monster nest type with low-tech weapons. Hmm...
Air Lord, Engineering Corps
I think they would be designs that have no backwall and you can see the crew moving about very fast, they'd have stronger module HP to compensate and come in large swarms of small airships made of usually 1x1 modules.
I think that'd be pretty cool for air tribes. Basically waging war on flying weaponized platforms rather than actual airships.
A cool reward might be 'tribal reinforcing techniques' or something that gives you a +5% module HP for all your airships.
Air Admiral
"Tribal reinforcing techniques"... That DOES seem kinda cool, but I would much prefer an actual weapon or something you can physically use in the game...
Air Admiral
SO what's the word on air nomads? Coming anytime soon?