>>3668696

Maybe to the edge of Segmentum Solar. MAYBE.

I love EVE online

>>3668705
Me too. The Apocrypha update is up on sisi now, by the way.

Don't expect much though, basically none of the new stuff works, and a lot of old things are broken.

Damnit OP.
Now i have to install Homeworld again ...

>>3668731
You haven't had it installed? Heresy! It was because you uninstalled it? Extra heresy!

Not worth capturing obsolete imperial vessels at all.

Lots of Ion frigates, the end.

You just HAD to bring 40k shit into it? We couldn't just have a homeworld thread? Really?

>>3668801
Pure Homeworld would be /v/

Any faction in Homeworld would nail the entire 40K galaxy.

What kind of FTL capable species carves their starmaps in stone tablets, that's what I'd like to know.

In Homeworld, the Hyperspace core that they had was BIG SHIT. As in, other people had FTL, but with their core they could go farther and faster more often than anyone else.

So, if that translates to 40k, then they might actually make it to Terra by going AROUND all of the other defenses.

That said, the Kushan ships are probably no match for imperial vessels. However, the mothership can build ships faster than the Imperials can, and on the spot too. So I can see the Kushan winning some battles just from superior numbers (lol ion frigate spam backed up by 3 battlecruisers).

They aint taking Terra though. It's just not going to happen.

>>3668811
The Beast vs Nids

Poor nids

>>3668808

Not necessarily. We could discuss it as a setting for pnp gaming, for example.

>>3668823
That's because the core unit the Kushan exiles took was one of the three original cores from the Progenitor ship Sajuuk. The hyperspace drives most ships use are reverse-engineered from those.

It's like comparing, say, the Saturn V to a toy rocket. Same basic principle, but the details are everything.

>>3668833
Homeworld PnP...... DO WANT.

>What kind of FTL capable species carves their starmaps in stone tablets, that's what I'd like to know.

Space Nazis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruin_value

>>3668822
There is a lot of fluff about that, how even though stone its, "Advanced." Because of how precise the carving is.

Seems like stretching the bullshit too thin. But hey, none of us can complain, with the warhammer 40k plot devices right next to that.....

>>3668833
>>3668841
As GAY as the place gets at times, I'd recommend visiting the PDS website for some interesting background/setting around the Vaygr invasion era.

PDS also gave us a whole fuckton of interesting new ships, some nice gameplay changes (namely missiles on EVERYTHING) and boatloads of fluff.

>>3668823
>So, if that translates to 40k, then they might actually make it to Terra by going AROUND all of the other defenses.

Thats what they did in HW - they tried to avoid Taiidani fleet as much as possible, only fighting when necessary.

>That said, the Kushan ships are probably no match for imperial vessels.

What's keeping them from building Imperial vessels? We can assume that their technology is relic from DAoT, and with their reverse-engineering capabilities they can not only build similar vessels but also find weakspots in Iperial ships and find ways of countering and defending from Iperial weaponry. Of course if they manage to capture a Imperial ship and survive the initial confrontation with their fleet

>They aint taking Terra though. It's just not going to happen.

Well, I have to agree. Even if they managed to wipe out every ship near Terra, they never going to take the planet - too many well trained ground forces.

>>3668824
FeeeeeEEEEeeeed....

Imperial vessels are STC pattern FREIGHTERS with upscaled guns bolted on.

And the xenos can barely match that.

The fucking Kushan are going to own.

>>3668853
I thought the Guidestone was a big chunk of incredibly resilient space rock laser-carved into a map?

>>3668870
It was a piece of rock from the moon, not advanced at all. The actual details for the map itself is the only reason why they kept it.

Chaos finds them, infects Karan, everyone becomes heretic and the inquisition sends an eversor into the mothership to kill her.

>>3668859
>reverse-engineering
Holy jesus yes the Kushan are masters of scavenging tech. They built the fucking Mothership in sixty years with nothing but space junk and a crashed prison ship to go on.

As for scale, look at the Progenitor ruins in HW2 again. Sajuuk is some sort of captain's yacht or something for the colony ship that came to their galaxy. Hell, the Dread fits in a tiny little birth somewhere near the back. The wreckage is SEVERAL AUS LONG AT LEAST.

Karen is too fucking dedicated to fall to chaos.

Enjoy missile destroyers, deviant xenos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkObnNQCMtM

nothing...

not even a beacon...

>>3668888
THE KUSHAN BUILT THIS ON A DESERT PLANET WITH A BUCKET OF SPACE SCRAP.

>>3668888
BRING.
SAJUUK.
TO BEAR.

>>3668895

...I saw what you did there. And loled.

>>3668892

HARD MODE: Find something more grimdark than this music and it's context in Homeworld.

>>3668888

What is that game?

>>3668886
I have to wonder if anything else came of that technology. I mean it's easy to assume that neural interfaces would gradually become more commonplace in the Hiigaran Navy, what with the sheer SIZE of some of their ships and the complexity of their inherent systems. But did they ever manage to duplicate the fully immersive interface?

Are there, somewhere, in secret, megalithic ships being made along those same lines? Humans used as living command circuits for some kind of colossal warship?

>>3668912
Homeworld 2. But it never happened.

>>3668910
Man all I have to do is play the audio from that cutscene and my friends recognize it instantly. I love my friends.

NOT EVEN BEACONS.

>>3668919
Screw you. It wasn't that bad. I keep seeing people bitching about the mythos and it seems to me like they're just misinterpreting things.

Also get PDS and shut the fuck up.

>>3668917
Well there has to be some kind of interface to forward commands to individual ships since after all you assume the role as the fleet commander, and as such I always imagined the orderes were broadcasted from Karan to the rest of the fleet.

As for how they developed the interface, I'd assume it was on those sketches they found on the wreck on Kharak. If not, one can only assume they already had such technology or that it was created during the development (which is less likely).

http://www.pds.hwaccess.net/news.php

I play PDS for additional dakka. And then some more dakka. Really, it's all about the dakka here.

>>3668917
>>3668937
Sins of a solar empire?

>>3668942
One simple mining ship, became a command ship in homeworld cataclysm. So I assume that if a non-military ship has it, all the other ships have them too.

Then again, it was about the same size as one of the carriers.

>>3668942
I'm not talking about how the tech came about. Presumably it was something someone was already working on, but put in a radical new context.

I'm talking about DEVELOPING the technology, for more small-scale use. Cybernetic interface systems for military personnel. Think MMI. Stuff that help you do your job faster.

As for command interface, I'm imagining something along the level of a big cyber-conference with various admirals talking at each other in their heads. Only way to get orders around a battlefield light years across in anything close to decent response times.

Us 500,000 and dwindling every day.

Us tiny half a million and less every hour.

From a home of billions set aflame

Into a universe of untold enemies, us tiny few.

And yet, we dare hope.

>>3668892
Australia... is burning.

In homeworld 1, the hyperspace core was just some generic low quality thing that was fitted on the freighters that took the exiles away. Most of the freighters failed in route (some stopped in a nebula and went insane). They crash land on a desert on the equator on some barely habitable planet at the edge of the galaxy, lose most their tech while trying to reach the habitable poles of the planet. Thousands of years later, they find the crash site under the desert. Whole planet then spends every resource they have reverse engineering it to build a space ship of their own. Using some starmap some guy scrawled before they abandoned ship. Then the nearby enemy naval base burns the planet.

I HATED the plot to homeworld 2 with it's magical warp drive. Why would some prisoners of war be given an iriplaceable artifac.

>>3668997

Canon-wise they smuggled it.

But otherwise yeah, HW2 plot sucked for the most part.

>>3668997
>some stopped in a nebula and went insane

Its called the warp. Idort.

>>3668997
They weren't given it, they smuggled it IIRC.

That's what the war was fought over that got them exiled.

>>3668988
>We
Sometimes, correct grammar sounds better.

Oh and if you need any more incentive to play PDS, there's the QJE, the Majestic, the Black Rose. And they made Flack Frigates JAWESOME.

>>3669013
>>3669010
>>3668997
See what I said earlier about misinterpretation?

>>3669013
Yeah. I could totaly see a someone slipping a 5000 ton object the size of a large office building past the guards while they were loading onto the prisoner transport.

>>3668996
you

Wait...the hyperdrives they use are quantum tunnelling devices aren't they? So they don't really do that whole "parallel dimension" thing, they just sort of...phase through the universe?

Oh. They're Necron ships.

>>3668801
/tg/ = mixing 40k into everything, especially where it doesn't belong

>>3669022
The fact is that we have no idea where the damn thing was or what it was doing before then, so it's perfectly plausible.

>>3669022
They weren't transported under guard and presumably were simply told to GTFO to Kharak with a handful of civilian ships at their disposal.

>>3669014
I think the textures and design on some of the new ships, especially the black rose, stand out a bit too much compared to the other ships. It just looks un-Homeworldly. Also, they turned the later versions into too much of "Armchair admiral in space: the simulator" by trying to enforce real life naval doctrine into space combat. Earlier versions are still good though.

>>3668996
fuck you, i shouldnt have lol'd.

>>3669035
If the war was over the ownership of the magic warp core, it would be stupid to let the defeated enemy load their own ship freighters.

>>3669054
I generally found v6-7 to be the best. They should have stopped REINVENTING THE GAME LOL and just started encouraging more people to do homebrewed ship concepts like the Deliverance II and that Halberd thing that never went anywhere.

>>3669014

Nigga you can break all the rules when it sounds better.

See: Terry Prachett/Hip Hop artists.

>>3669033
Source? I've always wanted to watch an eldar animu. Aside from Seikai no Senki

>>3669058
Presumably destroyed + plothole lol.


Anyone here enjoy the Battlestar galactica mod?

This is now an eldar thread.

>>3669075
A simple fix would have been to say it was put into a warship or something during the last days of the war and jumped as far as possible. Just to be complete dicks in denying the enemy the prize.

Why the shit is my Homeworld folder full of lesbianism?

fucking reinstalling

>>3669107
MOAR PLEASE

>>3669113
Enjoy your elfdar

Dammit, I really want to play Homeworld now. Never heard of it until a couple years ago.
I wonder if there's a way to get the first one.

>>3669075
Yeah I played it. Looked pretty, but gameplay wasn't more than mass raptors attack cylon interceptors and have battlestar shoot cylon capitals.

Though speaking of mods, I'm looking forward for the EVE mod for HW2, presuming it's ever gonna get released. They've modded in most of the Gallente and Caldari ships, but apparantly development is on hiatus and they can't release the mod until it's 100% done (by orders from CCP).

>>3669119

Who is this character in homeworld !!

Tips for /tg/ being a work safe board :-)

>>3669124
You get the best experience from the first homeworld. Once you beat that go play O.R.B. Then Homeworld Cataclysm. Torrents exist, learn to use them.

>>3669100
Because Lesbians are awesome

>>3668899

O rly?

>>3668937

**SPOILERS**

The story was shit, it wasn't the Vaygr, it was that progenitor wankery that ruined it. I'm all for ancient tech from forgotten races...but they went overboard. I can still hear 'BRING SAJUUK TO BEAR' being fanatically SHRIEKED in my ear. And they killed the Bentusi, those fucks! Bah.

PDS is awesome though. Since I hear THQ has acquired the rights to the HW license I just hope Relic will do number 3 better.

>>3669133
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT

Actually, the parallels between the wacky shenanigans in Blue Drop and the HW2 story are creepy.

Homeworld Fleet gets owned by pop cap.

Also, no shields, Holy Imperium of Man has void shields. Homeworld tech is obviously superior in other regards, as they understand what the hell they are doing with it, but if they run into a proper battlefleet they are proper fucked.

As far as production times go, yes, they can almost certainly build faster than the Imperium can, but not in 'video game time'. If they are not crushed outright in a decisive fleet action they lose by attrition anyway.

Or they just become a pirate nuisance until a SM chapter launches a crusade against them for plundering the worlds under their ward.

Oh, and Terra has ungoldy defenenses, not to mention Luna which is more or less a giant weapons platform.

Teleporting teriminator squads on board the mothership also yields doom.

>>3669132
My university shuts down internet connections when they detect p2p activity.

Greater Demon of Khorne

>>3669160
I liked that they don't have shields. They don't NEED fucking shields. Shields are for pussies who can't build proper fucking ships. Go re-read the chapter in the original manual that explains how they designed the ship hulls.

FUCKING ABLATIVE ARMOR HOLY SHIT WHY DOES NOBODY USE THIS SHIT

>>3669160
Derp. We all know that gamesworkshop wanted to create a plot that can never change. Creating something/someplace that cannot be destroyed is just one way they do that.

What about the Bentusi? Where would they fit in all this?

>>3669178
The Tau.

>>3669178
>>3669192
More like The Culture. Or on their way there, at the very least.

Think about it. Every single ship is a Mothership. Except theirs have fucking useful weapons for once and can farjump all over the place.

>>3669192

10/10

I fucking raged.

Taldeer >:3

What's with the animu spam?

>>3669176
Majik phazors destroya ll matter instantly, no armor cn wihtsand them. Also, because ironclads pummeling each other with mass drivers from 100,000 kilometers away in a deadly game of vector prediction (while stealthy carriers sneak in to unleash waves of fighters armed with fusion torpedos) is much less awsum than slim glowing saucers dogfighting and shooting each other with pretty lights.

i dunno lol

>>3669235
Some idiot decided that flooding Star Ocean (?) images would be a good idea apparently. Because they totally have absolutely nothing to do with Homeworld or /tg/

>>3669248
Wrong wrong and wronger.

Shields are EASY MODE. Missiles, particle beams and layers of fucking armor.

>>3669248
Be fair, the Homeworld warp drive is just as stupid. If they really wanted to stop the Mothership, all they'd need to do is sprinkle a fuckload of shrapnel clouds in it's path; it goes through them at near light speed and immolates instantly. Boom, no more Kushani.

>>3669252
Not Star Ocean.
It's Crest of the Stars.

>>3669274

No, faggot.

>>3669274
I thought the whole point of the hyperdrive was that it puts something "out of phase" with the rest of the universe, hence why you can travel insane distances in minutes. Otherwise, they'd be stopped by every tiny little bit of rock, dust or molecular hydrogen along the flightpath.

>>3669285
Yeah well, its space. Its called space because most of it is empty.

>Teleporting teriminator squads on board the mothership also yields doom.

Kushan marines have power armor and are pretty fucking skilled at taking ships themselves.

>>3669277
Whatever. Still not even slightly related to the topic at hand.

>>3669200
Bentusi ships also have really strong hull and if you encounter their space fighters... God help you.

>>3669287
You really have no idea.

>>3669287
...

BENTUSI ARE A BUNCH OF DICKS

RAM A MINING VESSEL DOWN THEIR THROATS

>>3669316
Now I know the answer
>>3669178
Eldrad

>>3669316
Oh. Yeah, I remember that mission. You're supposed to lose a capital ship, typically a destroyer. Luckly the ore collector controller whatever it's called is considered to be a capital ship.

I sometimes feel bad about sacrificing the crew of that ship.

>>3669334
Wait which mission?

I SO WANTED TO KICK THEIR ASS ON THAT FUCKING MISSION

>>3669316

Greetings. We have come to trade.

Super Acolytes fuck yeah.

>>3669335
Homeworld:Cataclysm. When the bentusi are being jerks and using this huge hyperspace gate to leave the galaxy instead of helping out.

Player blows up the gate, bentusi start attacking the player, up till the player loses a capital class ship.

>>3669360
This game was better than homeworld one in my opinion.

The bit with the tactical officer !!RAGING!! at the Bentusi made that mission

>>3669364
>>3669360
I found Cataclysm to be a bit...well...dumb. They took all of the technology and fucked it up in completely bizarre ways.

Also LOL SIEGE CANNON WTF

Siege cannon owns. Stand still, let me show you.

>>3669366
I'm gay for him. And when he was talking about the beast how they are nanomachines combined witch organics... I could feel the Fear...

>>3669402
It was an utterly retarded concept, though. Sounds like something out of a Gundam show.

The whole game just felt like a bad fanfic. Which is pretty much what it was.

>>3669252

Crest of the Stars, actually.

>>3669325

You Rang?

How the heck has there not been a promotions.jpg in this thread yet? You disappoint me, /tg/.


Also, PROMOTIONS

>>3669266
You're immune to sarcasm, aren't you?

>>3669427
PROMOTIONS

>>3669442
Might as well proceed......

>>3669432
It's difficult to recognise sarcasm over the internet. Unless you type in ALL CAPS and MAKE IT INCREDIBLY OBVIOUS

AS OBVIOUS AS A PUNCH TO THE VAGINA AMIRITE /B/ROFIST LOL U RAFF U ROSE ETC

Actually most of that had nothing to do with anything but whatever.

>>3669442
Is she ejaculating into a microphone?

>>3668696
What if the Mothership encounters Tau? Will it be like with the Kadeshi (Join or Die)or will Tau help them somehow?

The siege cannon was designed to be a weapon used against stationary defense platforms and planets.

Kith Somtaaw was hardcore enough to bolt it to a platform half the size usually considered for such a weapon and use it against moving targets.

Cataclysm owns, Kith Somtaaw owns

>>3669455
Tau insist they join the Greater Good.
Kushan see that these aliens have similar technologies and whatnot and school the fuck out of them on just how mass drivers and MISSILE ORGIES are supposed to work.

Imagine Tau ships with hyperdrives that don't fuck about with Warp. Or DECENT FUCKING ARMOUR.

FUCK JUST REINSTALLED AND IT WONT WORK

>>3669486

Kushan have their own weird space religion, thanks.

SPACE MUSLIMS WILL NOT HAVE THEIR SPACE BALLS CUT OFF FOR THE GREATER ENSLAVEMENT.

WE WILL NOT BE BOUND.

My cURL borked. Time to throw in the towel.

>>3669501
>WE WILL NOT BE BOUND.
Oh God I fucking came

>>3669486
I actually do believe they would decimate any Tau they encounter and then pillage the shit out of anything that's left in roughly one piece.

>>3669568
True. For 'good guys' the Kushan are damned good at pillaging.

>>3669568
Only if Tau attack first. Kushani are generally peacefull people. They would try reasoning with the Tau to help them or leave them fucking alone. Like with Kadeshi.

Any homeworld sequal had a lot to live up to. It had so many WAH?!!! moments...

The Mothership launch sequence.
"Kharak is burning" and the music.
Interrorgating the enemy pilot "He did not survive interrorgation"
The last or second last mission that opens with fleet intelligence informing you "Fleet Command is gone, emergency med techs are attempting to revive her".

>>3669589
Yes, but Tau are insufferable little noseless dicks, so that won't work. Rapeage and pillage is the only way.

>>3669613

>Kharak is burning

install.exe

>>3669613
>Interrorgating the enemy pilot "He did not survive interrorgation"
FINALLY someone who also noticed this.

I would also add the moment when Bentusi are telling us about the Exile ("...imperfect technology..." ...and ship turns into space dust)

>>3669589
They are not as much peaceful as... reasonable.

>>3669626
The only things humans understand, so...

>>3669646
They're willing to be friendly, but if you want they're also very fucking willing to be terminally unfriendly.

>>3669626
So they won't let poor Kushani go free? They insist on fighting?

>>3669176
I think you're forgetting that Imperial battleships RAM people.

Any battlefleet would wipe their ass with the Kushans.

ALSO, PSYCKERZ

and WRATH OF THE EMPEROR

>>3669644

>FINALLY someone who also noticed this.

Please, who did not? (it kicked ass)

Anyway, on the Tau question it all comes down to this:

Are they dumb fucks enough to try and push their filthy communism on the Kushans?

If so, proceed to any available fallout bunker cause shit be getting real.

>>3669663
dude, tau space fleet is pretty win.

Kushan fleet used TACTICS

Its super effective!

Imperium used FAITH

It's not very effective.
Imperium is confused
Imperium hurt itself in it's confusion.

>>3669676
Kushan fleet uses hit and run tactics

it's moderately effective

Imperium of Man sends a 2 SM chapter crusade against the Kushans

it's Super Effective!

Kushans are defeated and killed to the last man.

>>3669663
>Please, who did not? (it kicked ass)
Believe me, there are people like this.
>Are they dumb fucks enough to try and push their filthy communism on the Kushans?
>If so, proceed to any available fallout bunker cause shit be getting real.
You say Kushani will get their asses kicked because Tau like Nuclear Missile Spam or Tau'll get assraped by Kushani Ion Frigates hyperspacing all over the place?

I liked how circumstances pretty much the Kushan a people who have been peaceful and united in a single effort for the last 100 or so years to become quite ruthless. After all they were fighting for survival of their entire race and found out the galaxy isn't friendly happy place they hoped.

That and implying when they were in charge they were similar to the Taiidani empire. After all wasn't them using the atmospheric deprivation device in the earlier war the reason for such a harsh punishment (the exile) of their entire race.

>>3669698
basically, everyone becomes space nazis.

AND THE IMPERIUM IS THE BIGGEST OF THEM ALL!

>>3669698

It was, the Emperor found the use of it on Karak to be ironic.

Dohohoho, how ironic it was....

>>3669689
Kushan Fleet upon seeing superior enemy Hyperspaces to safety. Really, hunting Kushani fleet would require well coordinated action on a galactic scale. Imperium doesn't have any means of intercepting them. They only have superior numbers.

>>3669689

Oh no, not the space marines.

How can our space ships prevail against space marines?

>>3669676

Standard Imperial Admiral, return!

Go, Lord Admiral Ravensburg!

Lord Admiral Ravensburg used Hero of the Gothic War! It's super-effective!

>>3669691
I think he meant the second... Kushani are like a nest of starship sized bees. Fuck with them and... OH MY GOD BEEEEEEEEEES!

Actually the only thing that could stop them from wrecking the IoM is sufficiently strong resistance at the very start of their invasion, otherwise they will assimilate all technology, improve it and use their new bigger ships to make more ships they will then use to wreck even bigger ships and assimilate that.

Imperium tech... better than Kushan tech.

>>3669737

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEQE73RRtz8

So, you made me want to play Homeworld.
Do I start from the first or the sequel?
Also, how does it compare to something like Sins of a Solar Empire?

>>3669758

FIRST

THEN PLAY IT AGAIN

CATACLYSM

THEN PLAY IT AGAIN

HOMEWORLD 2

INSTALL PDW MOD

PLAY HOMEWORLD 2 AGAIN

PRAY FOR HOMEWORLD 3

PLAY TA SPRING

History repeats. The downtrodden rise up and eventually become the tyrants.

Then Homeworld 2 fucked it all over with "Spiffy new hyperspace network, everybody wins and is happy."

>>3669746
Not until Kushani scientist gets their hands on it. You know, Kushani scientist know how shit works, contrary to the adeptus mechanicus. They even have something like standard template construct on their mothership.

>>3669757
oh dear lord

>>3669763

First, for the love of GOD. And it doesn't really, they're two completely different games.

>>3669782
STC vs The Emprah! What does Mechanicus choose?

>>3669366
Truth. I raged with the officer when the Bentusi decided to be dicks.

+One of the best gaming moments ever, IMHO+

>>3669798

STC, hands down.

I didn't like playing Cataclysm so much, the story was good and being able to issue orders from the overall map was great, but so many ships were shit making it painful to play.

Heavy fighters that don't pack as much punch as a bomber because they have to dock and reaload after every salvo. Not to mention getting ripped to bits by actual fighters that are faster & more maneuverable.

Combine 2 crappy fighters to make a crappy corvette with the same problems.

Holographic kamikaze fighters that you never used until that one mission where you just spammed them untill the satellite thingy blew up.

They'll probably botch HW3 in some way too.

But I'll still play the shit out of it.

>>3669763
Homeworld is ass-wrenchingly hard. The Gardens of Kadesh especially I found were a complete bitch. It's from the X-Com school of difficulty, i.e. JESUS CHRIST DO EVERYTHING RIGHT OR YOU DOOM US ALL OH GOD.

>>3669033
I see what you did there.

>>3669806
So, Kushani have defeated Imperial fleet near Terra and conquered MArs with the help of Adeptus Mechanicus (Karan as a Omnisiah?). They are now starting mass production of fleet, titans, and what have you there preparing to take over Terra and counter inevetable counterattack from the Imperial Fleet.

>>3669818
That's what made the game worthwhile... well... in addition to everything else.

>>3669815
I /NEVER/ used the suicide holofighters except for spying. I killed the big satelite/deathstar and it's two protection orbs with those robot aliens wanabees that latch onto enemy ships and slowly eat them.

I refuse to waste perfectly good pilots in suicide attacks.

>>3669838
AdMech would see their technology as heretical. WH40k just rolls like that...

>>3668824
Wait, maybe that's what the Nids are running from?

>>3669818
I captured those multi-beam frigates. All of them. They were pretty. I even captured the fuel tanker catterpillars that refuled the fighters. Then I captured a good dozen of the fighters when they ran out of fuel. (useless, they have about 45 to 60 seconds worth of fuel) The huge motherships aren't capturable, I was sad.

I captured over 120 of those ion beam frigates in that mission to destroy the interdictor. Ever see 120 ion frigates all firing at once? The asteroid lasted only a few seconds. The endgame was a breeze since I just followed the huge ion frigate wall.

I had about 15 heavy cruisers too. All were captured from the enemy.

That was the other thing Cataclysm added, more radio chatter. Especially when ships were destroyed, hearing the scout calling out about damage then being cut off by static always made me feel a little guilty about using them as meat shields for other ships.

>>3669881
I did the same. God, Ion frigate spam was awesome, But you know, the moreships you have the more enemy ships will come after you.

>>3669881
Kushani - lootier dan da orks.

>>3669818
>>3669881
That's the thing about Homeworld, you start playing, don't know what you're doing, so you're gimped for the rest of the game, until there comes a point where you just can't win.

Then you restart, capture the 6 (i think) Ion Frigates in that early mission instead of destroying them and everything is easy mode.

>>3669901
Scrap any you don't really want for salavage, start the next mission with a smaller fleet and heaps of resources. Then build like crazy.

>>3669910
Dude, you are leading the rast remnants of a once great race, resources are scarce, you know that the enemy has fleet much more biger and advanced than yours, and you are on the mission to retake a whole planet from them. I don't know if there is possibly anything more obviously saying "YOU ARE UNDERPOWERED CAPTURE SOME FUCKING SHIPS FROM THE ENEMY"

>>3669952
Nope, you can't build more ships than the limit cap. You can only capture to have more ships. And I like lots of ships =D

>>3669991
So make the ones you keep good ones. Scrap the rest for parts and the crew for pet food.

the thing i most hated about homeworld 2 was, it was basically the same exact story as the first one.

what about the dust wars? couldnt it have been about that instead?

stupid faggots.

It had potential, long lost cousins turning up wanting their share. After all they had just as much right to Higara as the Khushan.

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>>3670053

>>3670019

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnvEFFCjSCw

here, how many of you faggots have seen or heard of this?

>>3669442
sauce?

Awesome thread, generally agree with the reasoning; Kushans run circles around the IM fleet, SM and boarding are a serious threat-preferably avoid (see Diasporex), no taking Terra... Thats simply not happening.

Now what is more interesting is how other races will react to AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT WAY OF FTL TRAVEL. Tau will surely go DO WANT, IM will go Not Sure if WANT, Necrons? Eldar? Surviving Old Ones?

>>3669757

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i had a hearty laugh.

>>3669757
HOLY SHIT HOW DID HE DO THAT?