Units

[lukeiamyourdad]

Hmmm I didn't notice that. Maybe it's an error.

[romano]

I think the question thats going throught everyones head is............ what happened to jangos head!?!?!?

[lonepadawan]

yeah... but thousands of battledroids are also seen being cut down... they're not there either... so it's just Lucas' stupidity...

[FroZticles]

There are still droids littering the arena but the Jedi bodies are gone. I hope Episode 3 can explain this otherwise it will be sad to see holes through the story.

[Dragonball Fan]

Vostok, EU is here to give a more variety to the game. If we only had the Imperator Mk I and Super Star Destroyer for the imps what fun would that be? The rebels would have jack $hit, except for their capital ships and air units.

 

Yes, the TIE Crawler sucks, but it's there probably as an early-game unit that's cheap and packs a punch against early infantry. Also, what the hell's with the Bulwarks? Those are as powerful as Super Star Destroyers and in the screenshots there are about 2-3 of them...

[lukeiamyourdad]

Uh Vostok has said nothing against adding EU units in general. Only the ones that goes against the movies like the Tie Crawler. Others like the Victory Class Star Destroyer or the AT-PT fit in nicely.

[Dragonball Fan]

I would love to see a special appearence by the Vong just to piss a bunch of purists off.

[lukeiamyourdad]

I don't think anyone would be pissed by a Vong easter egg or a small appearance. It's when they start getting a big role in the game that it becomes a problem.

 

Oh, and you don't need to be a purist to hate the NJO.

[Dragonball Fan]

I know, I know. But it would be sweet to have a Vong worldship or something as a cheat unit in single player.

[Admiral Vostok]

Vostok, EU is here to give a more variety to the game. If we only had the Imperator Mk I and Super Star Destroyer for the imps what fun would that be? The rebels would have jack $hit, except for their capital ships and air units.

*Sigh* I seem to always be misunderstood in this regard.

 

I am not saying the game should have no EU units. Nor have I ever said this. But those EU units the game does have should not completely contradict the themes and styles of warfare for the army in question. The TIE Crawler does this because we've seen in the movies that the Empire has always only used walkers as ground vehicles, stretching right back to the first battle of the Clone Wars when the Empire was still the Republic.

 

Please, I ask my critics to understand that although I dislike EU I am fully aware you can't make a game without it.

[Jan Gaarni]

Vostok, then please understand this, that if this would be the case, then the Empire only use star destroyers as capital ships. What fun is that?!?

 

The movies have always been very general about stuff.

[FroZticles]

I agree the Tie Crawler looks a little lame but it adds variety I think the game would be dull if Empire only had 2 mechs the at-st and the at-at.

 

Why would you want a Vong easter egg if you don't support the story behind them?

[lukeiamyourdad]

Nobody wants a Vong easter egg(at least I don't) but nobody would be bothered by one in the game.

[El Sitherino]

I would. The vong have no purpose or reason to be in the game, regardless of it being a cheat or easter egg or otherwise.

[Heavyarms]

 

If anyone notices in this picture, there's the interdictor cruiser.

[SirPantsAlot]

You know, you COULD post it in the other thread instead of making a new one...

[Heavyarms]

I did actually look there first to post it there, but thought it was not a good idea because they were off on some tangent. Didn't think I should disrupt it.

[Jan Gaarni]

Doesn't matter, if they lose track of what they are discussing, so be it.

 

 

*yoink*

[OverlordAngelus]

I have spotted a new TIE design.

 

Screenshot

 

There are three of them towards the bottom left of the screenshot.

 

They look fairly bulky. Maybe they are a bomber that proceeded the TIE Bomber?

[DK_Viceroy]

not new it's the TIE Scout looks like we have that scout unit.

[Jan Gaarni]

Like Viceroy said, not new, they are TIE Scouts, and they are that huge cause they are packed with sensor equipments and communication arrays.

 

Wether it's hyperspace capable I don't know, but I would assume it is.

 

Does anyone think it looks kinda small though?

Isn't it supposed to be nearly 30 meters in lenght?

[OverlordAngelus]

Ahh! I had only seen them from the front before so I didn't recognise it.

 

I remember them from the SWCCG.

[Admiral Vostok]

Originally posted by Jan Gaarni Vostok, then please understand this, that if this would be the case, then the Empire only use star destroyers as capital ships. What fun is that?!?

 

The movies have always been very general about stuff.

Jan, you seem not to have read my rant properly. I say again that I am not saying there should be no EU in the game. Just that the EU fits in nicely with the movies. So of course the Empire wouldn't just have Star Destroyers, they'd also have smaller cruisers (such as the Acclamator which they do have in EAW) and Star Destroyer variants (like Interdictors... although I have to ask the EU buffs why there were no Interdictors at Endor when the Rebel fleet needed to be contained...)

[FroZticles]

Looks to me like those 3 Tie Scouts are apart of a batallion suggesting that they have combat capabilites.

[Jan Gaarni]

The interdictor you're thinking of, Vostok (or probably not, but this is the only star destroyer I know of that has interdiction capability, save the Eclipse-Class), is the Dominator-Class Star Destroyer. Looks sorta like an ISD, but has those recognisable domes on the hull that signal it as an interdictor.

 

Haven't seen that one in the game though, but I did see the Immobiliser-418 (which is not a star destroyer, just has the same general look by the way) cruiser.