Need anti-air or anti-air-looking units for AA

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 24 Jan 2006, 00:03

Finally decided to cave in and try to add a balanced L2 anti-air kbot to AA. But I can't find any that don't look like crap. Any suggestions? Even if the unit isn't currently an anti-air unit, I can make it one... I just want it to be visually appealing really, I can do the rest on my own. (I could make them from scratch but that would take a long time and I'd like to have them in 1.42)

Chocapic · Post by **Chocapic** » 24 Jan 2006, 00:14

what about the conversation over that in the past about making ppl going through diferent plant types to have all they wanted ?

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 24 Jan 2006, 00:30

Well, this unit would be nothing compared to a real flakker tank, just a longer ranged crasher-type thing with a bit of extra firepower.

I don't really think it's needed, but a lot of people were asking...

hrmph · Post by **hrmph** » 24 Jan 2006, 00:50

I imagine a tank with large treads and the head of a Raven from XTA. Atleast I think thats the name of that terrain-only-firing kbot. Or a kbot with the same head but a differing body. Just my 2 cents,

Masse · Post by **Masse** » 24 Jan 2006, 00:51

but he wants kbot

Corncobman · Post by **Corncobman** » 24 Jan 2006, 00:56

You could try the Pom-Pom from Terror Maps and Units

http://tmu.tauniverse.com/?p=units

Chocapic · Post by **Chocapic** » 24 Jan 2006, 01:04

Caydr wrote:Well, this unit would be nothing compared to a real flakker tank, just a longer ranged crasher-type thing with a bit of extra firepower.

I don't really think it's needed, but a lot of people were asking...

its not that im opposed to the flak kbot , i like it but ive seen a lot of the "we dont need that"

Just make it not very powerfull (less powerfull then the mobile flak from the adv vehicle plant)

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 24 Jan 2006, 08:33

I"m not going to bother with the idea in 1.42 after all. Even the very best ones I've found or had people show me are positively hideous.

Decimator · Post by **Decimator** » 24 Jan 2006, 09:30

Heh, I tried.

FrostySalamander · Post by **FrostySalamander** » 24 Jan 2006, 10:31

That Pom-Pom looked great for a flak bot.

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 24 Jan 2006, 18:02

The only problem with it is that it's missing a midsection. It was designed strongly with OTA in mind, meaning that anything you can't see in OTA is not there. It basically has no torso, just a big gaping hole.

Kelson · Post by **Kelson** » 24 Jan 2006, 20:42

Not everything players beg you for is a good idea to add. Players rarely know what is best for them - hell, most would like to pump out orcones from a l1 lab and duke it out that way.

I go kbot fairly often and rarely, if ever, have a problem dealing with air. An adv con kbot with farks can build more than enough flak (and on the core side, a group of freakers) - and if I really need roving antiair, I'll pick up l1/l2 fighters to deal with them. The mobile flaks are pretty garbage as of now anyhow. That is, after all, why people often kill them with brawlers.

Chocapic · Post by **Chocapic** » 24 Jan 2006, 20:46

I think its sorta "usefull" so to speak, in some very specific situations when you dont want to spend res doing another plants and want a moving flak on the fly (and it would be cheaper then the flakker).

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 24 Jan 2006, 21:10

Ah but people so dislike being told they don't know what's best for them

aspa · Post by **aspa** » 25 Jan 2006, 10:43

I want an AA kbot that looks like this:

[edit]seems they removed the pic. The original page is http://world.guns.ru/machine/mg08-e.htm
OK put the image on my page:

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It would shoot bullets instead of flak... or maybe rapid fire weak flak shells. A cheap or fast-to-build unit that's supposed to be used in groups.

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 25 Jan 2006, 17:03

aspa wrote:I want an AA kbot that looks like this:

It would shoot bullets instead of flak... or maybe rapid fire weak flak shells. A cheap or fast-to-build unit that's supposed to be used in groups.

omfg teh pwnz0rz!!!
oh wait, I don't see anything...

Decimator · Post by **Decimator** » 25 Jan 2006, 17:34

The white box of dewm!

forbidin · Post by **forbidin** » 25 Jan 2006, 21:14

You can prob take some RUMAD units from MADTA. They have a few rocket kbots that could be used to fire AA missles in volleys (like the AA ships)

Corncobman · Post by **Corncobman** » 26 Jan 2006, 01:33

Caydr wrote:The only problem with it is that it's missing a midsection. It was designed strongly with OTA in mind, meaning that anything you can't see in OTA is not there. It basically has no torso, just a big gaping hole.

Just ask the guys at TAU to see if they can remodel it. Quite a few people are still making units. The original unit creators might still be there.

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 26 Jan 2006, 14:14

Whats wrong with aspa image? have you tryed right clicking and going properties and nicking teh url. If it don't show i suggest you do that.

Acctull I quite like the idea of a rapid fire gun style one. would be a nice point of difference. and would look kinda cool, like the sort of crazy 1 man army guys you get in films with two machine guns under each arm...

aGorm

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Need anti-air or anti-air-looking units for AA

Need anti-air or anti-air-looking units for AA