[OT] HG Landships (was Re: Eldar , Tau, and thanks for all the fish)

From: <Morgan_Keyes_at_...>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:32:52 +0000

Appoligies for the digression. Normally do such things direct to the individual, but thought there may be others that might find the info interesting.....

http://www.star-ranger.com/images/HGfleet.jpg

To give an idea of their size (in game) the Vortex-class carrier (V-shaped flight deck carrier on the right of the pic) is:

Length: 285m
Weight: 50,000 tons
Speed: 36 kph
Weapons:
  1) 6x250mm cannons (in two triple turrets)
  2) 4x Missile Launchers
  3) 8x Laser Cannons (long-range point defense and ASAT/ortillery weapon)
  4) 3x 10mm Point Defense Turrets

Embarked Forces (battalion-strength):
  Gear Company (62 Heavy Gears)
  Infantry Company
  6 helicopter gunships and scouts
  4 air superiority fighters
  8 strike fighters
  4 light ranks
  4 main battle tanks
  2 striders


Khan-class Landship (on the left)(arsenal ship)
  Length: 260m
  Weight: 40,000 tons
  Speed: 42 kph
  Weapons:
    5x 150mm Cannons (independent, casemate mounts)
    14x Heavy Missile Launchtubes (72 missiles in magazine)(think Tomahawk missiles)
    2x Laser Cannon
    4x Point Defense Guns

  Embarked Forces
    Gear Company (30 Gears)
    Infantry Platoon
    1 light tank
    1 main battle tank
    2 striders

And we now return you to your regular NetEpic discussions....

--
Win the Mind, Win the Day 
Airborne All The Way
-------------- Original message -------------- 
> 
> Thanks! I'll have to take a closer look of the HG 
> products. 
> 
> Jyrki Saari 
> 
> --- Morgan_Keyes_at_... wrote: 
> > Heavy Gear's Terra Nova is rather "water poor" with 
> > near the whole equatorial region being dominated by 
> > a vast desert-to-badlands region. Landships are the 
> > various powers equivilant of naval vessels, and move 
> > about with a combination of vectored thrust and 
> > magnetic repulsion. They run the gamut of types 
> > from escorts (destroyers and frigates) to gunship 
> > cruisers and missile-armed arsenal ships and up to 
> > battle-carriers and battleships. 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Win the Mind, Win the Day 
> > Airborne All The Way 
> > 
> > -------------- Original message -------------- 
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- Brian Dean wrote: 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I like these units for discussion on the 
> > "knights 
> > > > idea" for heavy 
> > > > gear mecha: Northen guard:Kodiak custom. 
> > Southern 
> > > > Militia: naga 
> > > > strider custom,, king cobra custom, Spitting 
> > cobra 
> > > > custom, Black 
> > > > Adder and the Jager custom. 
> > > > These can be found here ,, 
> > > > http://www.dp9.com/Products/decalminisHG.htm 
> > > > also i am thinking about using the fleet scale 
> > as 
> > > > subs for 
> > > > broadsides and crisis suits... 
> > > > 
> > > [snip] 
> > > 
> > > Landships? Sounds promising. Could anybody more 
> > > educated in the Heavy Gear universe educate me 
> > about 
> > > those. Are they the praetorians of Heavy Gear 
> > universe 
> > > or what? 
> > > 
> > > Jyrki Saari 

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