Author Topic: Aerial Doings (Read 5905 times)

leadfool · « **Reply #15 on:** August 13, 2014, 09:15:44 PM »

I have this weird idea of a small zeppelin controlled by a Babbage engine with an arc generator, shooting Pathans. it would take orders via a heliograph. call it something like a steam drone. the prototype would be named HMSD Obama.

copeab · « **Reply #16 on:** August 14, 2014, 06:18:25 AM »

Let's not muddy things with modern politics. I'm sure there are period politicians and soldiers we can use.

Craig · « **Reply #17 on:** August 14, 2014, 07:19:36 AM »

Like that Prussian concept of Aerial Bombardment such an idea would be considered barbaric by Her Majesty's Government

No civilised nation would stoop to such a diabolic scheme!

Dewbakuk · « **Reply #18 on:** August 14, 2014, 08:03:33 AM »

Coming out later this year:

Craig · « **Reply #19 on:** August 14, 2014, 08:32:49 AM »

Very pretty but definitely Pulp/Dieselpunk rather than VSF methinks.

vsfguthroth · « **Reply #20 on:** August 14, 2014, 11:00:32 AM »

Agreed. And it's out of scale. Either the gun is too big or the bag too small.

Conquistador · « **Reply #21 on:** August 14, 2014, 01:20:23 PM »

Quote from: copeab on August 14, 2014, 06:18:25 AM

Let's not muddy things with modern politics. I'm sure there are period politicians and soldiers we can use.

Agreed.

Gracias,

Glenn

Conquistador · « **Reply #22 on:** August 14, 2014, 01:28:20 PM »

Quote from: vsfguthroth on August 14, 2014, 11:00:32 AM

Agreed. And it's out of scale. Either the gun is too big or the bag too small.

Edit: The bag is really a polyhedral box.

The box is made of liftwood and the contents are ballast, not hydrogen?

Edit: The ballast consists of the rare metal "Varium" that temporarily gains mass/weight when electricity is applied.

Gracias,

Glenn

The_Beast · « **Reply #23 on:** August 14, 2014, 01:31:30 PM »

Quote from: Conquistador on May 16, 2014, 09:33:11 AM

Quote from: vsfguthroth on May 15, 2014, 08:40:39 PM
The deck plan of such a craft might be a skirmish arena, but I'm more interested in the 'fluff' in this area.
Both of those aspects would be very interesting, especially the latter.

Whereas I'm more interested in the former; nice tight quarters for a mixup.

Quote from: Craig on August 11, 2014, 08:24:04 AM

Honestly we haven't put too much extra fluff out there as we wanted people to not feel constrained by it.

Frankly, I thank you for that. Yet to see paint, I've still several GW Birdmen of Catrazza for Hanoverian light drop truppen, and a Hallmark Nautilus that still dreams of being a totally insane armored dig.

Still planning same for a nice big G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T. dust up, but could add interesting color to the intrigue of an IHMN game. I like the breathing room to add them as I will.

As for the Gun Dig, I don't see a gas bag, I see a rocket...

I'm with Craig on the Pulp sense.

Doug