Alternate Weapons of War thread...
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An Alt American Ironclad river boat
(*Sorry, i dont really have a backstory with it)
(*Sorry, i dont really have a backstory with it)
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OOooo nice dont see enough alternate ironclads here
makes me want to get into shipbucket
Don't do what I did and start with an aircraft carrier. Start with something small.
Personally, I couldn't figure it out.....
Can we get some form of reference? Sci-fi universe for example?
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A declassified document showing a human model of a craft. This is a craft made by humans after reverse engineering the original craft codenamed OK-M0 in 1967. There were three versions before it. Imagine a human version of an alien craft synthesized with human elements. This version will be refitted to appear human after many called it alien and not human enough. It is composed of extremities called arms connected by magnetic links. The controls are odd, so the New Guard Program was initiated to train a new generation of pilots.
The British answer to the French Ironclad
The Ironclad HMS Unicorn was bigger, faster and could travel further but its main guns (even if equivalent to its French counterpart) were mounted on casemate due to their failure to copy the French turret, which forced them to put side guns on the bow to cover its broadside. Its name was a reference to its ram, an addition to take advantage of its powerful engines.
The Ironclad HMS Unicorn was bigger, faster and could travel further but its main guns (even if equivalent to its French counterpart) were mounted on casemate due to their failure to copy the French turret, which forced them to put side guns on the bow to cover its broadside. Its name was a reference to its ram, an addition to take advantage of its powerful engines.
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In the depicted scene, the First Armored Brigade of the Texacoran Third Amphibious Division, also known as Mouton's Armored Brigade, is visible at anchor towards the left. From left to right are the picket treadnought Ranger Apache, the heavy capital treadnought and flagship Great Southern Way, the picket treadnought General Arsenault, the line treadnought Greyjacket, and the line treadnought Ivory Shoals. The Third Amphibious Division is one of two Texacoran divisions permanetly stationed north of the equator and often provides expeditionary forces for Texacoran punitive campaigns and military interventions in the Djong-Kok pirate kingdoms and in the outlying Red tributary states. During peacetime, the armored brigades of the two Amphibious Divisions are regularly rotated through Two Wind Bay for refitting and repair, ensuring a continuous presence in the port city to show the flag to Kommersant and Red alike. The treadnoughts of Mouton's Armored Brigade display peacetime colors of overlaid yellow trim that would be stripped off in the event of action to reveal the camouflage underneath. Only the flagship is permitted to fly the national ensign when in port, in observance of the diplomatic protocols concurrent with the visit of any foreign fleet to a nominal capital of the People's Liberated Territories.
Visible at the right foreground are the Kommersant gun-clippers of the 59th Mobile Squadron, a convoy escort detachment of the 16th Expeditionary Combat Fleet. Visible from left to right are the flagship frigate Free Market IV, medium frigate Grand Korolev, escort frigate Prosperity II, heavy frigate Gagarin's Folly, medium frigate Wealth of Nations, and the heavy frigate Free Trade. Unlike the more self-sufficient treadnoughts of the Texacor armored brigades, the gun-clippers of the Kommersant, which still officially styles itself as the Provisional Interstellar Commerce Authority, can only effect minor repairs and refit work with the limited shore facilities, shipyards, and drydocks available at Two Wind Bay, requiring a return to the great port cities of the Kommersant's southern domains for complete overhauling. Nevertheless, the Kommersant is obligated to maintain a permanent fleet presence at Two Wind Bay to guard its diplomatic legation and keep parity with Texacor at this strategically vital refueling waypoint in the heart of the Great Red Empire.
Visible in the far background is the surface cruiser Oranje-Senekal of the Transorbitaal Republiek, a mercantile republic of the Vieurkleur Konfederasie. Although Two Wind Bay lacks the immense commercial opportunities it once enjoyed as one of the Red Empire's dual capitals, the city still represents a reliably profitable terminus for the nanodust trading routes of the mercantile Orbitaaler-Berger clans as a result of the permanent presence of the Texacoran and Kommersant fleets and their insatiable hunger for high grade fuel.
In the depicted scene, the Marines of the Third Acadien Regiment are armed with the standard Texacoran issue Pattern '57 Port Faulkner Rifle-Musket. Capable of firing either standard expanding ball projectiles or heavy armor-piercing slugs, the Port Faulkner rifle-musket is a versatile and accurate single-shot percussion arm suitable for both shipboard and infantry use, though in order to fire armor-piercing rounds, its delicate breechloading block must be temporarily locked into the fixed muzzleloading configuration in order to withstand the heavy powder discharge required for hypervelocity slugs. Each rifle-musket is issued with a matching Model '51 sword-socket bayonet, a multipurpose implement that is often pressed into service by Texacoran Marines and Militiamen as an entrenching tool and cooking utensil among other things.
The Third Regiment's commanding officer, a major of the Old Breed officer-aristocracy's Acadien branch, is armed with a ceremonial Mameluke sword and a Lefebvre Heavy Frame Revolver, both of modern manufacture. The Lefebvre revolver is an eight-shot percussion revolver, capable of firing either standard heavy ball, anti-armor impact slugs, or powder-and-shot canister cartridges. Although the more traditionalist officer graduates of the Texacoran Tactical College prefer to set an example in rifle-musketry proficiency for their men by carrying ancient automatic carbines and smart rifles into battle, not every Old Breed officer is fortunate enough to inherit such a prized ancestral heirloom in functional condition and even fewer can afford the exorbitant expense of procuring stocks of surviving ancient ammunition. For these less fortunate Texacoran officers, the Lefebvre revolver offers a practical modern alternative for self-defense on the battlefield.
The “Revolución” Crusier was commissioned and built by the Anarcho-Syndicalist CNT-FAI following the Spanish Civil War and defeat of Bourbon and Carlist forces. The ship would see action in the Siege of Tangiers, the Battle of Taranto, and the assault on Tunis. She would also safeguard the French Communard troops as they stormed the beaches of North Africa. Her long and fairly distinguished career would sadly end in 1947 when she received a torpedo in the front bow from a Canadian submarine.
The “Revolución” would sink with all hands, and she would be lost in the dark Atlantic for 49 years, until the American Marine Explorer Robert Tuchman discovered the wreckage in 1996 off the coast on Cape Verde. Eventually, in 2001, she would be partially lifted off the ocean bed and displayed in the People’s Weltkrieg Museum in Chicago.
I took a design from http://www.shipbucket.com/ and edited it a bit, but my desired flag on it and wrote up some text in the corner classifying the ship. It’s a pretty nice website if you haven’t checked it out yet, lots of pretty designs.
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Can someone do a 1984 floating fortress base off of this?
Sorry for the low quality
Sorry for the low quality