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Published: 2013-06-30 00:54:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 34251; Favourites: 775; Downloads: 651
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Here's the 4th piece I designed for the 3145 Marik TRO. One of the less exciting of my batch, I still enjoyed coming up with something akin to combining a hercules transport with a space shuttle (now with guns!)
The 195 ton Caerleon Assault Craft is designed to ferry Battle Armor to and from the battlefield, but unlike it's more vulnerable cousins that must stay out of the fight, the Caerleon is suited for going in hot. It is unstable in atmospheric flight however, so requires skilled piloting.
2 Light Gauss Rifles
2 Long Range Missile 15s with Artemis IV
20 tons of Battle Armor capacity
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Personally speaking I think this is excellent!
I know Battletech is about the mechs, but I like seeing people tackle other elements of the franchise; an army marches on its stomach and something needs to get the supplies to them.
Personally I think this is more scary than any mech! Look at her - fancy seeing this swoop in?
Excellent work - especially on the landing gear and the cockpit!
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Yep, at best a pure mech show is a small raiding force delivered by a single jumpship and dropship. But most combat involves jumpships, many dropships, escort assault ships, transport craft, aerospace support, the works. I enjoy my space combat, which is why I picked up the biggest of the new Marik ships when faced with choosing that or trying some BA or tanks. The next 2 I post here will be aerodyne dropships, the big boys.
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HUZZAHH!!!! CANNE WAIT 
Love to see you do some space combat matey
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With light Gauss and LRMs, it makes an excellent long range support. Is it VTOL? Or does it need a full landing strip?
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Pretty sure it needs a landing strip, or at least flat ground. I don't think military aerodynes take off on purely forward thrust and aerodynamic lift, they'd be using some upward thrusters, but the idea behind aerodynes is that they use "some" aerodynamic lift in order to lift more, so they require forward movement.
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Since almost all battle armor can be dropped by parachute or their own jumpjets, landing to deploy is not necessary, but it limits the tactical possibilities of the craft.
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Anything that's influenced by the old 'Herky Bird' is cool by me!
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Less exciting? 
That things awesome. I love it to pieces.
Finally BA troopers get a good Battle Armor Bus.
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Battle Bus is Best Bus! :3
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Ooh, so it's sort of like an AC-130, but with battle armor capacity?
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With only forward and rear mounted weapons it's not the best at ground support, not without getting in the line of fire itself. But it is able to defend itself moving in and out of the drop zone.
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True enough, but with lrms it can still fire indirectly to hit units in cover, right?
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indirect fire doesn't apply to aerospace rules. the planes are high enough up and moving far enough that there isn't much that will block line of sight for their weapons.
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*Sigh* This is a transport. It has to land to disembark units if I'm not mistaken. Power armor can take quite a fall, I suppose, but there are still limits to the materials and engineering.
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powered armor can be airdropped. VTol capable suits can fly out, jump capabe ones use strap on fuel packs for their normal jumpjets. non-jumping PA have strap on jumpjets and parachutes.
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Yeah, powered armor -can- be airdropped, but if it's a hot lz that's not the smart way to go about it. Makes it a slow target on the way down. They ain't as heavily armored as 'Mechs.
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if it is a hot LZ, that is the best way to do it actually.. they won't 'hang' in mid air by the rules. and an aerodyne landing needs 300 meters of flat ground. that's about half a mapsheet. and the lnding unit has to slow down to a crawl beforehand or it willalmost certain crash.. making it very vulnerable to ground to air fire since it will also be coming on low to the ground where most weapons have range to it.
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it's worth remembering.. this isn't a Huey/blackhawk equivalent.. it's a Hypersonic space capable armed version of a C-5 transport.
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So...the rules are busted in this situation? Thank you for clearing that up.
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Hypothetical arguments sprouting from a legitimate question, he's pulling your chain around probabilities. Yes this ship WILL be landing often to drop troops, and CAN indirect fire.
If playing on a standard battlefield map, one unit as a spotter could call in indirect fire, however the Caerleon will still need to have that target in it's forward firing arc, as the game rules don't support firing your missiles in any direction you want.
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And an awesome job you do.
For some reason I take a Homeworld vibe from this. Then again, I absolutely love that game.
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Can't say I had Homeworld in mind on this one (one coming up has a bit more of that feeling), but it is my favorite space game so the style is there a little in most of my ships.
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I see. Pulling the conversation a little to my own experience, I notice much of my writtting is certainly influenced by the works of Arthur Clarke and the firs tBT novel sI read when I was little. This type of great influences is something that's always there, I think.
With that said, I'm eager to see what more you have in store.
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