Shereza
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.06.02 07:56:00 -
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Honestly, I loved the old 7 blaster 5 T2 heavy eos. Changing it over to the myrmidon hull might give it a "clean break" of sorts from its former glory and its transition to the CreoDron(e) ship it should have transitioned into when it was mauled (nerf is too kind), but in doing so it will lose all reason for restoring its chin dish. I miss that little doohickey. 
That said...
I think I'd rather see the field command ships use the (formerly) tier 3 BC hulls and incorporate the battleship-sized weapon aspect into their design from the start.
Oracle -> Absolution
Naga -> Nighthawk
Talos -> Astarte
Tornado -> Sleipnir
Strictly speaking the Naga is counter-intuitive, and the Astarte on a brutix hull looks awesome, however if we were to delineate between fleet and field command based on function and assign battleship-sized guns to field command ships to help with that differentiation it makes a kind of sense to go this route. Also a Naga with cruise launchers up and down its arms/legs firing off volleys of 8 missiles a pop would just look awesome.
That would leave the battlecruiser hulls that are not getting navy variants open for usage as the new fleet command hull.
Myrmidon -> Eos
Prophecy -> Damnation
Ferox -> Vulture
Cyclone -> Claymore
At this point it might be worthwhile to consider consolidating ship design options between Boundless Creation and Core Complexion and splitting them up based on the dual weapon nature of Minmatar design philosophy. Specifically consider designing Core Complexion ships, and incidentally the Claymore, to make use of missile bonuses and have Boundless Creation handle the gun-bonused ships. Of course this would probably also require swapping the Hound out to be a CC ship instead of a BC ship as a result as it would make more sense to have the missile-oriented manufacturer handle the stealth bomber.
Just some thoughts that I don't really expect to be popular, especially the idea of modifying field command ships to sport large turrets/launchers and mucking with Minmatar T2 ship design philosophy. Of course that latter group might not be too miffed given that the only Core Complexion ship that's seriously dedicated to gun-based damage is the Tempest Fleet Issue, and that ship's perhaps only a "kinda/sorta" CC ship. All the others have non-damaging combat aspects that might mesh better with missiles than projectiles. Might. |