Bretonian Dreadnought Development Thread

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Model it and lets see the result.

I hate to be blunt, mate, but that's a LOT of work to do for you to decide if you like it or not. Big, complex, texture-heavy ships - especially Bretonian ships - need to be planned on and decided on before they go into production, because once that model goes up and I've got it all nice and detailed and somebody decides they want something changed, I am going to be very, very unamused. The unusually detailed pictorial was provided for such a reason (although apparently I didn't detail the bow enough, of all things).

As for the matter of that bow, yes, it was very specifically designed to emulate a mouth, keeping in line with the Bretonian Giant Sea Monster bit. Think of a giant grinning whale. With big, sharp teeth.

As for the tail, well, it's supposed to look kind of weird, but I think it's very Bretonian. I originally stumbled on that when I was doing the first Bretonian Dreadnought; I figured the rear looked kind of odd and I needed something that would hold more than one Bretonian Battleship engine, so I devised something similar to that. They're like fish fins arranged into a sort of three-dimensional shark's tail, with two or three engines assembled under its folds, and two more partially underneath it attached to those little Bretonian fishlegs. Giant Fish + General Tail Shape Like Current Battleship + Bretonian textures and ridges = Profit!

As for whether or not the Bretonians need a heavy Dreadnought, I would say it's certainly a natural thing for them to do, because:



As you can see, while the Shankopotamus is obviously larger than the Crustacean, it's not any wider, which gives it a surprising agility in a joust. Head on, (which, as Jinx so wisely reminds us, is the most important perspective) the Shankopotamus is a good a dodger as the Bretonian Battleship, whilst being able to withstand way, way, way more damage than the Bretonian BS (1280000 base armor to the BretBS's 800000, and 2000 b/b to its 1600) and dish out WAY more damage (18 guns as opposed to 14, only ten/eleven of which fire forward), gives it the power to shred the Bretonian BS on the initial run - what happens past then is irrelevant because the Bretonian BS has already lost so much hull that it can't hope to drop the Kusari BS even if it can outfly it. It makes sense to me that the Bretonians would then come out with something even bigger and nastier, with so much armor and firepower it can beat the Kusari BS at its own game, something nearing on Zoner Juggernaut scale. It's just filling a deficiency in their lineup - if something big and nasty crawls out of the woodwork it's good to have something that's even bigger and nastier handy.

EDIT: Also, the opinion of the BAF is going to be valued much, much more highly than anybody else's. Their members asked for it, the intended customer should get the most say. Just saying.

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Quick comment - we thought that Panzer was the Leader, Swift. -Agmen

Which Dreadnought was that?

One of your nine.