Decided to try to model a design that had always left me stumped. I've always had trouble really gettign started on this one, but after really sitting down and just working at it, I pulled it off better than I could have imagined!

Here's the AGA Assault Transport, designed for carrying cargo, hovertanks, biped mechs, and troops into and out of planetary assaults. It sports 3 anti-starfighter guns and four anti-infantry guns for use when landed. Four additional light guns are located on the wing/tank brace. The transport can carry in two AGA Hovertanks (and can easily accomodate Unity hovertanks and ground transports as well). Two hatches on either side drop down as ramps to the ground to allow Biped mechs and troops to pour out.

I didn't really realize going into the modeling how large it truly needed to be. In the novel, on a raid on Milenthwayii, The Assault Transport Battleaxe drops down to retrieve teh raiding party. I stated that they piled 3 Unity hovertanks into the ship, leaving little room among the cargo and tanks for the soldiers. When I sized up the hovertank, I realized it was much longer than I had remembered and I could not fit that much in the hold unless I made it frigate-sized. So I decided to utilize the wings to house braces for carrying two tanks. I'm going to have to have one left behind in the novel, however. As it is, it's about 2/3 the size of a gunship, which isn't really too bad. The next objective is to make the side hangars on the Goliath lage enough to house one of these each.

Without further ado:

dude, those are insanely awesome. You have serious talent.

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That is AMAZING. I can't wait to buy XWA and play this.

You are a monster. I love all of your designs.

Not for XWA. But XWA rocks anyhow :). You won't see these ingame for quite a while, I'm afraid. Not until I get the time and resources and drive to put a game team and game together.

Well, they certainly would rock in-game. I could see them in some sort of space-battle RTS.

Yes, awesome indeed.

Your stuff's pretty cool. Keep up the great work.

Hrm.

Are you using 3D Studio MAX?

I believe he's stated he uses Jed to make all these models...

That's freaking cool.

A new space strategy game...yesyesyes. I buy it. It has to include:

- mission-based multiplayer mode instead of the dull deathmatches common in this genre
- true full 3d space with all it's side effects (no orientation on plane, please)
- clever recon and reinforcement system
- minefields
- stations
- deployable warpgates
- kamikaze attack mode for smaller ships
- fluffy particle clouds
- destruction of ships leading to space wreckage

And most important of all:
- no stupid resource gathering/real time manufacturing of combat units while in a tactical battle

I'd also buy a space flyer (Freelancer like). But I don't think the mass of capital ships you have are suited for cockpit-action gameplay.

This sounds pretty close to what I'd like to one day do. That or an XWA-type flight sim