Saw a Rouge Trader group at the LGS and they'd named their ship "Initiate Self Destruct Sequence."

I love it when you let smartasses name ships.

>>14698665
>Kol
>Pride of TEC

Nein.

"She's one of ours, sir!"

In Battletech weve got a new Mercenary company called "fucking nothing"

" so what forces defend this planet? Fucking nothing.

retribution class battleship here, TEC are faggots.

So far we've seen
The Hate Machine
White Flag
and the SS Concept Failure

>Pillar of Autumn (not a capital ship)
>not a capital ship

GET THE FUCK OUT.

Also.

I KNEW IT, KEYS IS GOING IN MANUAL

The Homeworld 2 mode Point Defense Systems have great capital ships.

They added lots of weapons and increased fighter squadron sizes.

Pictured, the Cosmic Dragon

I always call my flagship The Eadne Cloud

Best capital ship name ever?

SERVICE UNAVAILABLE. Bow before the mighty SU.

Fucking SUs. Fucking Scarabs. Fucking power claws.

>>14698854

The Autumn was a Halcyon Cruiser, not a capital ship. Though after her refit and significance in the Convenant war, she probably would've been an honorary capital ship if she'd survived.

I loved that boat. :(

OP: Both Andromeda and Halo draw their ship naming scheme from the culture books.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_(The_Culture)
LOOK AT THAT LIST.

It's My Party And I'll Sing If I Want To.
>Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall.
>Grey Area.
>Fate Amenable To Change.
>Shoot Them Later

>>14698953

Cruisers are capital ships.

>>14699011

The UNSC has carriers, which, if drawing a parallel to most modern navies, would be their capital ships.

>>14699082

God shit fuck DAMN. "Capital ship" does not denote just "the biggest" ship. It denotes big, blue-water warships. "Big" generally means "not a destroyer." I.E. ships-of-the-line.

Cruisers DEFINITELY qualify.

>>14699123
Only the big cruisers, i.e. the battlecruisers or heavy cruisers. Otherwise, they're just slightly bigger then destroyer destroyers.

I mean, have you seen ticonderoga class cruisers? They're practically destroyers.

>>14699320

Especially compared to the major ships, like the Iowa class battle... oh, wait, THOSE ARE NO LONGER IN SERVICE.

Modern navies fight with electronic warfare and missile spam. A ship that fills the "cruiser" role doesn't need to be the size of a WWII cruiser to qualify. Ship classifications have never been perfectly static, but the name generally classifies 1. what it's mission is and 2. what kind of firepower it can sling. You may as well say the USS Constitution was a littoral combat ship because they called it a frigate. Frigate in 1775 =! frigate in 2010.

Capital ships is a term used during the heydays of battleships and denotes ships of the largest class designed to slug it out with the enemy's biggest ships. So to get in this class you generally have to have 14" batteries or bigger and either be armored heavy enough to have immunity zone against your own gun or can make 24 knots+ (which would make you a fast battleship or battlecruiser depending on the armour). Ships are grouped as capital ships to simplify strategic planning without getting bogged down into the details of gun/armour/speed of each ship.

You can't really apply the term to modern day cruisers because they are different to both cruisers of the old and battleships. If anything the closest you have to capital ships these days are aircraft carriers.

I played Sins once, and named each of my ships after someone interesting
FEAR THE WRATH OF THE UNC JIM CARREY
BOW BEFORE THE TECB NORMAN BORLAUG
ALL HAIL THE GLORIOUS UNC DARA O'BRIAIN

>>14699537
>ships of the largest class designed to slug it out with the enemy's biggest ships.

In other words, anything that could stand in a battle line.

>So to get in this class you generally have to have 14" batteries or bigger

Come the fuck on, plenty of battle-cruisers didn't have 14 inch guns. I'd put the "serious ship" limit at 8'' guns.

Of course, not everything with 8'' guns is armored well enough to be a true capital ship... the British light cruisers might not qualify as true capital ships. They were more like super badass destroyers in capabilities and mission.

>>14699582
Small time. The Ernest Borgnine was feared throughout the galaxy.

>>14699616
Playing SInce Trinity one time, I got a Kol to level ten and quite literally MAXED OUT my tech tree. Completely.

Nothing, NOTHING, could stand before the raw killy shooty bangbang of the UNC RANDY SAVAGE

Cruisers are the lightest capitol ships. Ticonderoga were to be guided missile destroyers, but were bumped to cruisers because of their ability to operate independent and act as major warships. (And the Aegis system).

Capitol ships were typically deployed independently and considered to be fit to at least survive in a field with the heaviest warships. Battle cruisers and heavy cruisers were intended to, in a pinch, fight battleships on more or less equal terms, but a cruiser was intended to be able to survive contact with hostile battleships as part of a group.

>>14699650
Fuck, now I need to redownload this game.

>>14699683
My job here is done.

Thunder Child
Best battle ship name ever

>>14699582

The Norman Borlaug could be no other than an Akkan Battlecruiser!

Biodome-an! Colonizan!

>>14699721
You mean I'm not the last person on earth who knows who he was?

Wow. I'm stunned.

>Come the fuck on, plenty of battle-cruisers didn't have 14 inch guns. I'd put the "serious ship" limit at 8'' guns.

There are only two battlecruiser class that doesn't have 14" or bigger gun, one is Scharnhorst class, and that's because Hitler specifically had the navy pick 11" guns to not piss off the British while making the turret ring big enough to up gun to 15" Bismarck gun when possible.

The other is Dunkerque class, which is a fast battleship with 13" guns in all guns forward layout with balls to the wall speed (31 knots) and very heavy armour for its displacement.

Funny enough the American built the Alaska class large cruiser with 12" guns, and because the USN have so many capital ships already they don't even classify it as a battlecruiser. Instead it gets a special destination called "large cruiser".

>Of course, not everything with 8'' guns is armored well enough to be a true capital ship... the British light cruisers might not qualify as true capital ships. They were more like super badass destroyers in capabilities and mission.

No cruiser have any real armour against battleship guns, that's why they are cruisers. Any hit by 14" shell on any cruiser will be a penetration no questions asked. Cruisers are only armoured against 8" guns (even the Alaska, despite it having 12" guns itself)

Post more capital ships!

Culture was here. Best ship names of all time. OF ALL TIME.

Lapsed Pacifist
Frank Exchange of Views
But What Are The Civilian Applications?
Look What You Made Me Do
Experience A Significant Gravitas Shortfall

Sword of the Star's 2. Hopefully they will have less randomness in the tech tree and more hilarious AI rebellions suddenly fucking over half of the players in a game, forcing them into a desperate alliance to fight the machines.

>>14699841
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>>14699841
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>>14699841

THIS!!!!!!!!

# Consider Phlebas

* Nervous Energy (GCU)
* Prosthetic Conscience (GCU)
* The Ends Of Invention (ex-Culture GSV)
* Eschatologist (GSV; temporary name)
* Irregular Apocalyse (GSV)
* No More Mr Nice Guy (GSV)
* Determinist (GSV)
* Bora Horza Gobuchul (GSV)
* Profit Margin (LSV)
* Trade Surplus (ROU)
* Revisionist (ROU)

# The Player of Games

* Screw Loose (Clipper)
* Flexible Demeanour (GCU)
* Just Read The Instructions (GCU)
* Of Course I Still Love You (GCU)
* Limiting Factor (GOU)
* Cargo Cult (GSV)
* Little Rascal (GSV)
* So Much For Subtlety (GSV)
* Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence (GSV)
* Youthful Indiscretion (GSV)
* Gunboat Diplomat (LOU)
* Zealot (dROU)
* Kiss My Ass (Superlifter)
* Prime Mover (Superlifter)

# Use of Weapons

* Just Testing (GCU?)
* Xenophobe (dROU)
* Very Little Gravitas Indeed (GCU)
* What Are The Civilian Applications? (GSV)
* Congenital Optimist (GSV)
* Size Isn't Everything (GSV)
* Sweet and Full of Grace (GCU)

>>14699859
MFW 3 human players get fucked by AI rebellion and nobody gets access to AI Virus or Slaves.

>>14699867

My favourites:
Just Another Victim Of The Ambient Morality
Ethics Gradient

>>14699895

The State of the Art

* Bad for Business (GSV)
* Arbitrary (GCU)
* Cantankerous (GCU)
* Only Slightly Bent (GCU)
* I Thought He Was With You (GCU)
* Space Monster (GCU)
* A Series Of Unlikely Explanations (GCU)
* Big Sexy Beast (GCU)
* Never Talk To Strangers (GCU)
* Funny, It Worked Last Time... (GCU)
* Boo! (GCU)
* Ultimate Ship The Second (GCU)
* It'll Be Over By Christmas (GCU)
* A Ship With A View
* Ablation
* Arrested Development
* Credibility Problem
* Dramatic Exit
* Excuses And Accusations
* God Told Me To Do It
* Halation Effect
* Happy Idiot Talk
* Helpless In The Face Of Your Beauty
* Heresiarch
* Just Another Victim Of The Ambient Morality
* Minority Report
* Not Wanted On Voyage
* Perfidy
* Sacrificial Victim
* Stranger Here Myself
* Synchronize Your Dogmas
* Thank you And Goodnight
* The Precise Nature Of The Catastrope
* Unwitting Accomplice
* Undesirable Alien
* Well I Was In The Neighbourhood
* You Would If You Really Loved Me
* You'll Thank Me Later

>>14699930

Look to Windward

* Winter Storm (Chelgrian)
* Piety (Chelgrian temple ship)
* Nuisance Value (ROU)
* Vulgarian (Superlifter)
* Sanctioned Parts List (GSV)
* Resistance Is Character-Forming (VFP)
* From the conversation:
o All Through With This Niceness And Negotiation Stuff (OU)
o Someone Else's Problem
o Lacking That Small Match Temperament
o Poke It With A Stick (GCU)
o I Said, I've Got A Big Stick (OU; you have to say the name quietly)
o Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again
o But Who's Counting?
o Germane Riposte
o We Haven't Met But You're A Great Fan Of Mine
o All The Same, I Saw It First
o Ravished By The Sheer Implausibility Of That Last Statement
o Zero Credibility
o Charming But Irrational
o Demented But Determined
o You May Not Be The Coolest Person Here
o Lucid Nonsense
o Awkward Customer
o Thorough But ... Unreliable
o Advanced Case Of Chronic Patheticism
o Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory
o Conventional Wisdom
o In One Ear
o Fine Till You Came Along
o I Blame The Parents
o Inappropriate Response
o A Momentary Lapse Of Sanity
o Lapsed Pacifist
o Reformed Nice Guy
o Pride Comes Before A Fall
o Injury Time
o Now Look What You've Made Me Do
o Kiss This Then
* Grey Area/Meatfucker
* Soulhaven (Chelgrian temple ship)
* Lasting Damage (GSV)
* Lasting Damage I (GSV)
* Lasting Damage II (GSV)
* Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall (GSV)

Never forget.

>>14699937

After reading this list you will have gathered that Culture ships tend to name themselves whatever the hell they like. However, you may be puzzled by the recurring appearance of the word "gravitas" in there. We've got the GCU Very Little Gravitas Indeed from Use of Weapons, the GSV Zero Gravitas in Excession, and the GSV Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall from Look To Windward.

Spotting this trend, a number of people questioned Iain M. Banks, the author of the Culture novels. He responded saying that it is basically a running gag within the Culture itself. One of the Involved civilisations (i.e. different civs which have an involvement with the Culture) found it a little surprising that ships with such awesome power and intelligence would be given names like I Blame Your Mother and Space Monster. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to choose names with a little more gravitas?

Supposedly one of the Culture ship manufacturies immediately responded to this by beginning to name all their newly-created ships No Gravitas Here, Dwindling Gravitas, Absolutely No You-Know-What and the like, and continued to do so for quite some time.

Banks claims to have a growing list of about 20 "gravitas" ship names at home, but no way to use them up until his next Culture novel.

Hope someone enjoyed, now go read the culture novels. I didn't write all ^ that btw. http://qntm.org/culture

>>14699983
man I loved the ships in the beginning of that game, I was a little irked when all the ships became your standard sci-fi affair later in. There are not enough hard sci-fi ships in video games.

What about the Litanty of Litanys Litany and Maximum Fuck for the greatest ship names of all time?

>>14699441

>Modern navies fight with electronic warfare and missile spam

Fuckin' Caldari


also, Nostalgia for Infinity from Revelation Space

It's One Of Ours, Sir!
Seriously, if ANYBODY put that name for a ship in a sci-fi story, I'd buy it. If only because anything involving a name like that would be awesome.

For my more serious considerations?
Brigand's Bounty
The Piercer Of The Dark
The Deal-Breaker
Sol's Sovereign
Victory And Truth
Star Wanderer

>>14699441
>>14700063
US uses carriers. Only second-class navies use missile spam.

>>14700162

WOOOO Galente

i always had a blast build capital ships in Gal Civ 2

could make some beastly fucks if you had an imagination

>>14700065

Mhm, that reminds me of another two names I enjoy.

Truth and Reconsiliation from Halo and Litany of Fury from WH40k.

This is probably the nerdiest thing I've ever said, but I'm particularly proud of the name I came up with for the capital ship of a story I'm writing, the Destiny's Advent.

>>14700254

That is a pretty nice name.

On a side note, in the WH40k universe, do smaller vessels like Valkyries usually have names? I wouldn't imagine so since they're just transport vessels, but I've never really heard it one way or the other.

You could always just pick random names out of your favorite mythology

>>14700275
The crew probably have a name for it, but on official navy logs they're probably known only as the "BF Scarus NF3694-032" and the like.

But like everything with 40k fluff, it varies by the writer, which in-universe means it varies by the system and sector.

Lucifer here your all fucking dead!

>>14700331
Naming things after mythology is completely overdone; these days it's pretty much reserved for shitty fanfiction or things that actually reference the myth in question.

>>14700344

Heh. And I don't imagine the crew comes up with very flattering names, either; unless maybe the ship has carried them from the gates of hell on more than one occassion.

LOOK OUT, IT'S THE FLYING SHITBUCKET.

>>14698665
I tend to name my Kol Destroyer
Necronicus
Because... well... because of the gauss weapons, and I always go with that neon green army colour.
And I usually have it surrounded by a bunch of Hoshikos like a swarm of scarabs.

I built one of the homies a fleet for his upcoming Black Crusade game.

It consists of:

Stun Gun, a Meritech Raider with a pair of disruptor macrobatteries
And We're Just The Escorts, a Falchion Frigate torpedo boat
Clown Car, the Defiant Light Cruiser built for nothing but boarding actions
Super Dimension Fortress, the Tyrant Cruiser built around the Voidsunder Lance

They're excellent ships, have BS and ratings higher than most players thanks to the way he asked me to build them. I found naming them hilarious.

>>14700413

>Tyrant Cruiser built around the Voidsunder Lance

This gun...needs to fly.

>>14700413

...Who the fuck let Mr. Karate have a space fleet.

What, did Akuma get one too? That's the only reason I can think of to allow this.

>>14700201
Damn supercapitals. Not allowed in wormhole space, so I never actually run into them. I should be thankful of that though since those are pretty nasty and rarely deployed without a nice sized support fleet.

>>14700428
You mean we strap the gun to a ship?
No. We strap a ship to the gun. The ship is an accessory.

And everyone's mind was blown.

>>14700428

The Macross Cannon hits under a 75, I believe, provided you use the appropriate orders. Stun Gun actually hits under an 80. Clown Car makes boarding torpedo hits at a 75 and command tests at an 80. And We're Just the Escorts makes torpedo tests and regular hits at a 75, I believe.

Fine ships.

Vasari here.
TEC and Advent can suck it.

Pic related; pride of the Exodus Fleet: The Kortul Devastor Tulkorsari - or in your primitive tongue, the Killfuck Soulshitter.

>>14700065

Done it, did it, waiting on the publisher.

"Pillar of Autumn" doesn't really make any sense as a phrase. What would a pillar of autumn do? Hold it up?

>>14700489
Isn't that the general idea behind most dreadnoughts though? They do that in Mass Effect, Star Trek(a mirror universe dreadnought made from a Galaxy Class), and a few others.

>>14700535
You make poets cry.

Not that I'm praising Halo's writing staff that highly, but they admit to taking their cues from Iain Banks. It's a evocative title, if nothing else, like a well-chosen Exalted name or Abyssal title.


Abyssal titles thread, anyone?

>>14699706
Fuck yeah, the Thunder Child.

Martians fucking up your shit? Shooting heat rays and generally one-shotting all attempts to repel them?

FUCK THAT, RAMMING SPEED

Well, in GalCiv, I often make my largest most powerful ship class the "Compensator".
And then I make as many Compensator-class ships as I possibly can.

Shivans here. Our Sathanas class Juggernauts are prepared to fuck all your shit.

>>14700563

>Abyssal titles thread, anyone?

Why Is My Name Longer Than God
My Life Was Hell In Kindergarten
Mommy Didn't Love Me or She Would Have Named Me One Syllable
Batman Bin Superman, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learn My Own Name

I agree with you OP. Also, Forward Unto Dawn. I get shivers every time I hear that name.

The Shadow of Intent gets an honorable mention.

I'm still partial to the SCS Launch All Escape Pods

>>14700662
>Mommy Didn't Love Me or She Would Have Named Me One Syllable
Abyssals pick their own names.

>>14700662

I remember that I once had an abyssal with a 347 word name/title.

Formal duels for a lot of things required a full recitation of your title before begining.

This became the only reason for his dishonorable tactics: he hated standing there listening to someone blathering on about some sort of emo crap for 20 minutes.

He was actually a pretty cheerful person on the whole, other than the back-stabbing harbinger of doom thing.

I tended to name my battleships in Eve either "Dulce et Decorum Est," or "Ultima Ratio Regum."

I really like "Furious Purpose".

>>14701049
I like "Furious Porpoise" better.

>>14701020

ooo. The english translation of Ultima Ratio Regum would be a pretty nice name for a ship.

The Last Argument of Kings

Albeit a bit lengthy.

>>14700162
>implying the Caldari State has a second-rate navy, you filthy Minmatar scum.

I remember someone posting a link to a seventh sanctum name generator for ships. I had Symphony... something. I was no longer a captain, I was a Conductor.

And someone got Action Panda, shit was awesome.

>>14700162

Actually, no, missiles are better than aircraft.

Also real men operate submarines. Submarines fucking everywhere.

Halo had some great Ship Names, always sounded like they had a story behind them

Truth and Reconciliation
Litany of Fury
Iron-Clad


I loved the Halo Ship Names.

>>14701784
>litany of fury
>halo

>>"Hail humans, and take heed. This is the carrier Shadow of Intent. Clear this sector, while we deal with the Flood."

The Furnace of Wrath
The Proof of Malevolence
The Temporary Solution
The Gift Horse
The Celestial Dragon
The Rampant Profligacy
The Falling Hammer
The Hairy Unwelcome Balls

A Vague Sense Of Disquiet
Did You See Which Way He Went
Its Easy To Criticize

If nothing else, I like Banks simply because his AI-controlled megaships name themselves such great things.

>>14700108

MOAR DELICIOUS SOVIET SPACESHIPS!!!

>>14700162
Carrier battle groups are great for dick waving contests. Submarines are good for getting the job done.

Naval vessels are either submarines, or targets.

The battlecruiser UNC John Bonham.

Crew's personal nickname: 'The Beast'.

The hangar decks house the veteran, indestructible Bonzo Squadron.

>>14702003

The Proof of Malevolence is pretty nice. I imagine it a dreadnought with a sister ship Proof of Benevolence. Probabily a cruiser.

>>14698711
>>14699650
>>14698665
16 SOVA CARRIERS REPORTING!

>>14704032
Yeah, 16 carriers at level four could more or less grease any target, unless the target had an equivalent number of capitals. Or a very well-placed minefield.

>Sins of Solar
Favorite thing I love to do is generate the biggest map possible and build one Kol class and explore it like I'm captain of the Enterprise or something. Also
>yfw you accidentally enter a pirate base

>>14704032
>>14698665
if you've got enough distance or if you've spent your points right your 16 carriers can take 16 other caps just fine, all. the bombers will usually take out a cap on every other pass if not every

I prefer the Homeworld: Cataclysm capital ship names.

"Kuun-Lan, “Purifying Flame”, Fal-Corum, “Silent Wayfarer”, and Clee San, “Truth Seeker”..."

>>14704117
I love when that happens. So much free experience.

>>14704183

remember the time when they strapped a SIEGE CANNON on a mining vessel?

Warbastard.

Warbastard is always my flagship. Be it Galactic Civs 2 Hearts of Iron or anything else beside, Warbastard is there bringing the fight.

>>14704297
Even when it's a giant space squid.

whore mcdickduster
fagballs smith
faquarl LaRattlebane
candlesniffing fuckfest
bob
Fridge Largemeat
Punt Speedchunk
Butch Deadlift
Bold Bigflank

Splint Chesthair
Flint Ironstag
Bolt Vanderhuge
Thick McRunfast
Blast Hardcheese

Buff Drinklots
Trunk Slamchest
Fist Rockbone
Stump Beefgnaw
Smash Lampjaw

Punch Rockgroin
Buck Plankchest
Stump Chunkman
Dirk Hardpeck
Rip Steakface

Slate Slabrock
Crud Bonemeal
Brick Hardmeat
Rip Sidecheek
Punch Sideiron

Gristle McThornBody
Slake Fistcrunch
Buff Hardback
Bob Johnson
Blast Thickneck

Crunch Buttsteak
Slab Squatthrust
Lump Beefrock
Touch Rustrod
Reef Blastbody

Big McLargeHuge
Smoke Manmuscle
Beat Punchbeef
Pack Blowfist
Roll Fizzlebeef

I think I will try using captcha to name my ships

>powerful stlyeat

fuckyear

>>14704365

We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese!

Kitesfear
Post Dated Check Loan
Serial Peacemaker
Touch and Go

I wonder who's going to get the reference.

>>14704449

Shit yeah Schlock Mercenary!

>>14700353
>>14700652
The Lucifer and the Sathanas were great, but they just couldn't beat the good ol' Colossus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7e_JLfW0w8
Skip to 5:20. So much beam spam.

rolled 5655 = 5655

Unrestrained Fury
Abaraxes
Hallowed Protector

>>14704514
Ah, freespace 2. Best space battle sim of the 90's, no questions asked.

>>14704710
Has there been a better one in the 00's?

>>14704715
...no

My Paladin in EVE online is called "Lawful Good"

YOU ARE HUGE, YOU ARE HUGE EVIL, SMITE AND CLEAVE!

I don't use my Paladin for combat though I usually go with a Hurricane called Occam's Razor or an Armageddon called the Void Hatred.

>>14704715
No. Space sims are still crap on consoles, so no "action" game maker is willing to try atm.

Your best best is probably EVE, but even that suffers from excessive MMO design, eg grinding.

>>14700353
>>14700652
>>14704514
>>14704710
So much nostalgia.

"DIVE DIVE DIVE PILOT!"

>>14704830

I do miss the advent of the strafe-drive in games since it, but Freespace 2 remains pretty much the king, especially since it had it's source code released for people to make free total conversions on like The Babylon Project.

Stuck with X3: Terran Conflict these days for a good space game that isn't a strategy game.

>>14704941
DIVE DIVE DIVE HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT

>>14701784
Long Night of Solace
Forward Unto Dawn
Say My Name
The Heart of Midlothian
Red Horse
Mona Lisa

>>14704955
Man, I gotta replay that. Even messed up the quote.

Last time I played Sins, I got my ass whipped, brutally, by the AI. Was the good ol' TEC, fighting against dirty aliens. Was funding the pirate base to go slap their shit, and it seemed like that was working, although I never could see the results proper. Had a modest fleet, good income, was getting a second planet and researching away. I was all set for defense and preparing for steamrolling.

Then, suddenly, FATASS FLEET OUT OF NOWHERE HOLY BALLS THREE CAPITAL SHIPS.

That's alright, I can handle this shit, got a Kol and PLENTY of supporting missile boats & expendable other light ships to their three caps & fewer support vessels-

WHAT THE FUCK DOZENS OF PLANETARY BOMBARDMENT RIGS WHY WON'T THEY DIE FUCK YOU STAND AND FIGHT-

Or in other words, my fleet proper gets its shit wrecked trying to defend two worlds because the AI doesn't seem at all interested in fighting or defending itself. I went on an offensive, and a fuckton of bombardment vessels warped straight past me. Return home, they just keep firing and then run off before I can do any damage. Then they somehow pull a jackassedly huge fleet out of nowhere and fuck up my shit, while continuing to be giant fucking cockmonglers by terror bombing my colony with no regards for their own safety.

How I into Sins, /tg/? The pirates were growing with my funding and presumably raiding the shit out of the AI, my fleet was all set, yet the AI had a massive fleet despite the pirate harassment, bombed me to hell, didn't bother defending itself, was full on pants-on-head retarded, and yet STILL cut my fleet to ribbons while doing nothing but passively firing on me while it terror bombed. What do?

>>14705186
Which version of Sins are you playing? Any Mods?

In any case, here's what I do:
Build an Akkan BC as first cap-ships, because colony frigates are worse than useless for anything other than capturing neutral resource points.

Colonize the asteroid that is always next to the planet you begin with.
Remember to build one of each research station on your homeworld.

After capturing, asteroid, fill that it's logistic with Military labs (especially if it only has a two way phase lane between it and your capital).

Continue expanding, and make sure you research health and armour upgrades (seriously, good armour means that your capships might be able to survive escaping to the end of a grav-well while under fire by a small fleet, and live).

Once you are able to get starbases, research that shit, then build those fuckers all over the place when you have the economy to do so (if you are playing TEC and don't have a good economy, you are failing), even in places that don't have.

Put Aux-government on all starbases that guard planets to force the AI to attack it. If they attack a fully upgraded starbase (armour and weapons), they are either slaugthered or take heavy losses, and in a worst case scenario might delay them for long enough for your fleet to arrive.

That's the tactic I use all the time anyway, it's not a surefire way to win, but it helps.

>>14705434
Think all I've got is vanilla Sins at the moment, so no unassailable defenses for me. I'll have to rectify that.

But, in a nutshell, I need to get the expansions to balance the game out, swap from the Kol to the Akkan as my first capital ship, and continue with my turtle-booming tactic? That's it?

>>14705474
I found turtling pretty useless in Vanilla, but yes use the Akkan as first cap-ship, the Kol is horrible as a first choice (a level 6+ Kol in combination with a level 6+ Dunov becomes a monster of enormous proportions though, because it can spam flak field and Gauss cannon like no other).

Also, a pretty good idea is to build a trade station on almost every world you get, the amount of income you can get from trade can be insane.

>>14705565
THAT much (trade center wise) I already knew. I thought the Akkan's colonization ability to be redundant or useless and instead opted for the heavy hitter that is the Kol, to smash the shit out of any early or midgame assaults until my economy could handle more capital ships.

I was pretty sure this'd take a huge retooling of tactics, but instead all I need to avoid a clusterfuck of massive proportions is an expansion, a different capital ship choice, and maybe a different path for early research.

>pic

OH GOD NO

I THOUGHT I WAS SAFE

>>14705186
>>14705474

Amen, use the Akkan for your opening capital ship, and go capping new planets as soon as you eliminate the underdevelopment penalty for a planet.

Oh, and goddamn pirates! I was playing trinity on a huge game against AI. Game ran for 10+ hours and the pirates were still alive. Their stats scale up the longer the game goes, so by that time my entire 2200 supply fleet had no chance against them in a straight up fight.

Luckily TEC gets the Nova cannon, 2 shots at the pirate base and that ended their coordinated attacks. I still can't take that base though, 4 of their frigates can take down a starbase.

>>14705710

Early game, the TEC are by far the weakest race. Midgame, they're meh.

Oh jesus tits did you let a TEC player get to the endgame? The end of their tech tree looks like death. If they put down the economy they had the ability to, and the techs they needed, they're simply going to make it rain ships. You will not be able to outproduce them. Just not gonna happen. And, then there's the nova cannon. It's funny if they have one, kind of a pain, you know you need to kill it. When they have six of them, and they're popping three planets every recharge? You know you're boned

>they still haven't played homeworld 2 complex mod

You guys really should. It becomes a whole new game

>>14700063
>shield tankan
>missile spaman
>everybody being jellyan

>>14698880
As a former member of the PDS dev team I thank you for the endorsement.

That being said that mod got way too out of hand starting with version 7.1

>>14705774
For some reason, hw2 runs like shit on my radeon. No idea why.

I'd also like to know if there are any good mods for sots out there. The ones I found are either dead or still in production.

>>14705798
Didn't they stop releasing versions at 7.2?

>>14705812
Sots? What's that?

>>14705828
Nope. Last version is like 13.something. It gets sort of out of hand. On the smaller 2 player maps you will have cap ships exchanging fire right from the very beginning of the map.

>>14705812
There is no support for higher end newer hardware from what I understand. I dont know the details but I think the i5 and i7 cant run and Im sure there are problems with newer graphic cards and processors. I have to use a german exe crack to run it on windows 7. That said the Complex mod team actually petitioned Relic to make a patch for newer systems which I guess some devs are working on. Its all in their forums.

>>14705833
Sorry. I keep mixing up Sword of the Stars (sots) and Sins of a Solar Empire (soase). They came out at nearly the same time, so my mind seems to have archived them next to each other.

So, are there any good, and released, sins of a solar empire mods?

>>14705963
I see, thank you.
I'm also not in the mood of searching through their forums for this, but do you remember if there was any eta for that patch?

>>14705963
> That said the Complex mod team actually petitioned Relic to make a patch for newer systems which I guess some devs are working on.

... Is this real life?

Pic unrelated

>>14705186

>Had a modest fleet, good income, was getting a second planet and researching away.

Like it was noted, that is not how you play Sins.

You play Sins like EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND, then TURRETS AND STARBASES FUCKING EVERYWHERE, and THEN you start balancing your research away and building up an asskicker fleet.

Hull and armor upgrades, metal and crystal upgrades, population cap upgrades and whatever turret upgrades you have are however a must in early game.

>>14705972
Well I know some.

Distant Star: http://www.moddb.com/mods/distant-stars
This is the one I am currently playing, adds fantastic music, and does a lot of balancing, as well as making some additions to the research tree.
Also adds several new planets.

Stars: http://www.moddb.com/mods/stars
Adds a lot of new planets, does some balancing, makes weapons fire more visually impressive and adds some research.
Also adds fantastic music.

And while I know you asked for released MODs, here are a few that are still in development, but are going to be awesome:

Sins of The prophets: http://www.moddb.com/mods/halo-sins-of-the-prophets
A full conversion of SoASE. It's looking pretty damn awesome.

Dawn of Victory: http://www.moddb.com/mods/dawn-of-victory
A full conversion of SoASE.
Allies, Soviets and Nazis IN SPACE! This will likely be THE best SoASE mod ever made once it's released.
Seriously, just go look at the screenshot section, it speaks a million words.

>>14705792
>the Drake outperforms most battleships
>mfw when I went Amarr

I always named my ships after battles in Sins.

Thermopylae
Trafalgar
Midway
Iwo Jima
Coral Sea
Normandy
Marathon
Gettysburg.
Never, EVER, Waterloo.

>>14706250
Why never Waterloo? It was a clusterfuck for the French, sure, but who says you're the French?

>>14706205
Just as planned

>>14706250
The Marathon was ALWAYS an Akkan class.

>>14706290
Because I think it'll get all the AI allied against me to kill me.
Just a minor superstition.

>>14706130
Thanks. I'll give distant stars a try as soon as I've acquired the most recent sins version.

>>14706327
In that case, get a better economy than the AI and name a ship Galipoli. Both sides are completely annihilated and you build yourself back up more quickly, then you slap the AI's shit.

>>14706205

Nope. Artybaddons, Hellcats, a Firewall/Fireline or a well done Alphafleet will nuke most drakefleets. Solo, drakes are beasts, but you only ever see them in scrub alliances who can't afford or don't have enough average SP to field an alphafleet.

>Sins of a Solar Vampire

no lexx been mentioned, that ship was fuckin ace

>>14706643
And the show horribly depressing and BORING!

>>14706705
depressing and... wait.... were we watching the same show?

>>14706539
The Necron mod is out? Sweet, got a link?

>>14706760
If only this was real.

>>14706741
Most likely. FUCK it sucked so bad! I hate TV shows.

>>14706205
You just have to know the strengths and weaknesses of drakes to know how to deal with them. Fist, they can do one of two things: tank or DPS, not both at once. You can either ignore them(if they can hit you at 50km they're either rookies or tanks) or just stay out of range and gun them down.

Case in point, one of the guys in my alliance was bragging about how good his drake was, so I challenged him with my Rattlesnake(he thought I was bringing out a scorpion at first). Hit him with a pair of webber drones and a trio of Ogre II's, backed away and torped his ass until he was in armor(didn't take long).

Later on he challenged me to a rematch so I used my Proteus(still in a C6 pulsar mind you) and still knocked him into armor before he got much past my shields.

Drakes make good blob ships if your FC doesn't want to worry about tactics, but as a whole, I'm not impressed with them.

>>14706944
Agreed, although they can tank pretty damnned well. I keep seeing pairs of drakes one tanking (and inevitability the first to warp in) and one DPS boat.

Good news is unless the first one has HAM's, you can ignore it and fuck up the DPS one.

Annoyed at some of my corpmembers at the moment for losing a tanked drake, twice. because they cant tackle for shit....

Follow though a wormhole and their excuse is "he instantly warped off after decloaking"

Oh and i'm going to bitchslap one of my newbies, he's two months old, flying a myrm with faction fittings.... and has almost no drone skills...

/rant

>>14707022
Send the myrm guy to my part of space. I'll teach him what a drone boat is supposed to do. I won't pod him though. That's just mean.

I name all my capital ships after their role, so I can keep track of them.
It sucks to have 100s of dreadnaughts sometimes.

>>14706944

you took on a Tech 1 Battlecruiser in a Faction Battleship and a Tech 3...

BIG MAN.

So is Sins pretty good? I've seen it mentioned in passing and I've been really wanting to find a good space fleet/space combat game that isn't just flight sim in space or whatnot.

>>14707245

Play the Homeworld series if you havent already :)

Shit is sooooo cash

how old is the Homeworld series? I have a tough time playing older games for some reason. I can't even play Diablo 2 for very long because of its age. I'm willing to give it a shot though.

>>14707226
Tech 3 armor tank in a pulsar thank you very much.

I'll give you that the Rattlesnake was a bit underhanded since that thing can tank a Revelation in siege mode, but ow well.

If you talk shit, especially to older players, don't expect them to show mercy on you. I didn't kill his drake anyway.

>>14707245
Sword of the Stars is good if you also have a 4x itch to scratch.

what does 4X mean? Most of my strategy experience is with RTSs

>>14707226
If you ever see a fair fight in Eve, tell me. Been playing almost 2 years and haven't seen one yet.

>>14707245
It's really good. You can spend HOURS without noticing it, it's that addictive.
Combat is sort of straightforward, with micromanaging not being all that important.

One thing I like about it is the culture system. Essentially you build a special building type, which then starts broadcasting propaganda/commercials.
If your culture goes uncontested for long enough, a planet will rebel and overthrow whoever is owning it, making it ripe for the taking.
(I also think it's funny how the TEC are capable of making commercials that are convincing enough to cause revolutions on a planetary scale).


Also, like someone else mentioned, try Homeworld if you are able to.

>>14707365
eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate.

>>14707369
>fair fight in eve.


it happens occasionally, when the sides both have an intel cockup.

I still have fond memories of the fight a friend and I had, because he was boasting about his tanking skills...
me in a t1 kestrel, vs him in an t2 Flycatcher..

would'nt have thought an interdictor could go from undamaged to structure in one volley from a frigate, but I managed it. unfortunately for the poor guy, by the time the first volley hit, the second and third volleys were in the air....

lets just say he stopped laughing at me for flying t1 frigs at that point.

It's easy to come up with names when your ship is a space dick.

>>14707480
Ah yes, the Syreen "Penetrator".

ITT: unoriginal faggots

>>14707435
Killing a dictor with 2 volleys from a T1? How in the hell did you do that outside of WH space?

Funniest fight I heard of in Eve was a fleet of 30 or 40 people taking on a tengu(fully officer/plex fitted with high grade crystals and high grade boosters). The Tengu killed their interceptors, ignored the rest of the frigates, and proceeded to pop 3 battleships and several cruisers before they got smart and ran.

So I heard you guys liked capital ships.

I tend to name my battleships after the setting's gods if they're the most powerful ships in the fleet, or legendary heroes otherwise.

Carriers, on the other hand, tend to get the names of birds and other flying creatures.

For example, the Jannath-class battleship Kiari and the Peregrine-class carrier Oriole.

>>14707305

Yeah :) the rattlesnake is awesome.

but it is to be noted that siege mode dreads will NOT hit anything sub Capital ship unless its somehow got an insane signature radius and is stationary because your tracking and explosion velocities take a HUGE hit...

Dreadnaughts are designed for POS bashing and anti-cap fights.

>>14707581
Funny you mention that. I was stationary and my sig radius is about 1.2km across thanks to the pulsar.

My corp-mates wanted to test it against an alpha strike from the POS guns, but I wasn't going to try that with a T2 rigged ship.

>>14707559
4x t2 launchers with T2 missiles, a MAPC in the lows to squeeze the power needed out of the kessie....

and 56million SP including maxed out missile skills.

it was rather a WTF moment for me too, to be honest. I expected to bite his sheilds pretty deeply but somehow, blew right through and well into armour in one volley.
Think I was doing something like 240 damage per missile. but its been a long time since I was a player, so cant really remember details.
might've actually been the second volley that blew through shields, in hindsight. what is certain is it was over in about 15 seconds, with me trying to stop firing and realising the missiles were already in the air.

I've got a Curse named "Harlequin of Hate"

Trusty frig-load'o'guns, the vanguard of the 8th fleet's "diplomacy" core.

One of her greatest acts was extinguishing a rebellion on one of the largest production worlds in the alpha-sigmata sector - the planet rebels, the organic inhabitants managing to interrupt the automatic processes and causing all production to grind to a halt. We had a contingent of adepts with us who could restore the planet back to proper form but they would be killed if they landed, and the rebels started turning their fancy new weapons against us. They'd also fucked up the power generators in such a magnificent way that if nothing was done soon the entire sector would go up in flames.

Situation:
Rebels on the planets surface, stopping any attempts to get the machines back to working order again, can't be taken by normal force since they're all over and in the planet.

The solution:
Use the vast abundance of shooty-sticks mounted to the hull to create a null-point meta-hole (pimped up local blackhole) in space away from the planet, then, whilst still fighting off whatever the rebels could chuck at us via the planet, attach gravity tethers to said planet and haul its ass over to the hole.

Due to the fancy way it got created it was only big enough to consume a single human at a time, leading to the next four days of spinning the planet across and through this tiny area of nothing until every single organic being on the planet was gone - not even being buried near the core could save them. After this, adepts landed, system restored etc.

(Physics took a back seat in this for sheer amusement factor).

>>14707365
Sins of a Solar Empire is both 4X and RTS. You may be interested in that if you love Real Time.

>>14707802
That's one of the stupidest things I've heard in 6 years of 4chan

trying out the demo for Sins, having a lot of fun so far! Pretty cool game. Are the expansions worth picking up along with the game?

>>14709532
Very yes, but don't bother: order Sins Trinity, which gives you a small package discount, and do it direct from Stardock Impulse.

Right on. So far I have a fairly good fleet, with a Kol and the dreadnought capital ship with some LMR and destroyer supports. Are there anything I should know about the ships or some tricks to pull? I opted for the Kol since most planets I met were owned by enemies.

>>14709602
Well, an escorted Kol only gets tougher with upgrades and levels, while AI that inhabit neutral planets are always static in terms of stats, while enemy skirmish AI ships will get tougher too. Also, build an Akkan battlecruiser as fast as possible since it can autocolonize.

>>14709633
Is the Akkan still glitched? It used to suck ass. I usually roll with 4 Kol, 4 Sova, 2 Dunov, and 6 Marza

If advent, 4 Radiance, 6 Halcyon, and 2 of each of the others.

But then, I am a little OCD about having my fleet ships come in even numbers, and I usually split my capital ships into 2 separate identical fleets for greater tactical flexibility.

Don't play vasari much

>>14711354
Glitched? Dunno. They're supposed to be the weakest possible TEC capital ship though.

When did this go from "capital ships" to "video games featuring capital ships"?

Some of the ship names I have come up with, or if i stole them i did it and forget to make a note about where i stole it from.
Concord Dawn
Angel Spectrum
Silhouette Mirage
Silent Virtuoso
Scarlet Priscus
Velvet Tomorrow
Tesseract Chaser
Lever of Archimedes
Air and Darkness
Dyad
Elsewhere
Raybender
Uplift
Moonstriken
Absolute Power
YuYu
Tragically Fated
Eon Hawk
Blackout
Rise
Tenth Righteous Man
Revivify
Phantasmagoria
Bad Seed
Ultima Ratio
Second Star
Lunar Rain
Reverie
October Hope
Crime of Passion
Mata Hari
Back of Beyond
Bassline
Iron Priest
Resurrection of Steel
Witchdoctor
Bandersnatch
Novus Ordo
East of Eden
Benediction
Ace of Swords
Red Queen
Somnium
Beautiful Child
Steel Bodhisattva
The Sand Reckoner
Paramour
Almagest
Omicron Velorum
Sidereal
GLORIOUS!
Pinnacle
Fashionably Late
Ghost of the Somme
Fierce Radiance
Sashay
Rock Steady
Get Loose

Fateful Lightning
Grapes of Wrath

my personal favourite
Terrible Swift Sword

These names are all shit and you should all feel bad.

>I've always loved capital ships and the sort of protagonist role a lot of them play in science fiction.

Look no further!

>Don't mind me, just unleashing a terrifying ancient plague on the galaxy, and then tracking it down and beating it like a red-headed step child.

Whenever I play Sins I always pick a naming scheme and continue it. Either they're named after emotions or songs... it's less emogaylol when I'm doing it. My favorite set so far was name after songs by The National. I had the:

Bloodbuzz
High Violet
Sugar Wife
Trophy Wife (Destroyed)
Sin-Eater (Built to avenge the Trophy Wife!)
Water Wall
Vanderlyle
Cherry Tree

It was a lovely sight, my ships singing the funeral dirge of my enemies.

I am partial to Sins more than to Sword of the Stars, mainly because of the TEC being free trade masters while the Human SolForce in SotS is by the fluff creators decree a totalitarian orvelian nightmare. With food and water rationing and even work rationing.

And yes the Akkan is the first thing to take as a cap ship due to the large antimater reserves and fast expansion it can provide Killing NPC guards and colonizing planets so fast its not even funny.

Also the TEC political and economical research trees are beast.


As for ship names I am quite fond of the three name scheme in the Halo series...

bump

I have a 4X scratch. Does Sword of the Stars compare at all to MOO2?

And Sins, is it fun? I want to play a space game and I like RTS'.

General offensive unit Problem Child

>>14714715
sins is great.
SotS is also great but havent played only with humans due to the cursory similarities with Sins gameplay with the lines...

The General Service Vehicle Quitely Confident

When I'm playing 4x games by myself, I tend to call them ridiculous things like Dickfucker, Hatemurder, Zornfaust, Starfucker, Ragetrain, Cyclone of Bleeding Entrails and Scimitars, but when it's for an actual setting or among others, I tend to just give them very bland names.

>>14714745
>>14714763
Ian M Banks is the god of starship names, also Offensive units A frank Exchange of views and Attitude Ajuster

My capital ship names:

Unstoppable
Immovable
Breaking Dawn

Comet
North Star

Storm Queen
Valkyrie
Griffon

This thread made me order Sins, Swords, and GalCiv 2 (because why not, it was five quid).

Thanks /tg/.

>>14698956
>>14714784
Abbominater-class Picket, Falling outside the normal moral contraints, it gets bonus points for being Sentient and just a bit omnicidal

>>14714804
>GalCiv 2
lol for custom ships, Facefucker-class fighters,Shitwrecker Covettes, Omniciderator Frigates, Sunshine class hugbringers and Pony Class Smoochers

"Sir, we have a large contact at 30 parsecs... It's huge!"
"Do you have identification, ensign?"
"According to the ID signal, it's... Your Mom, sir!"

>>14701020
I've always been partial to "Ultima Ratio Railgun"

Which is, i suppose, why i'm not allowed to name the ship anymore.

>>14714757

Humans are the only ones who get those lines naturally, other races have to slog through space in different ways. One race makes its own high speed paths similar to the ones humans use, except they can choose where they go too (humans can't, they have to use the ones that are already there), another gets speed boosts the more ships are in one fleet, one uses a gate system that they have to set up manually, and I forget the other 2 but they're different too.

>>14714757
> and I forget the other 2 but they're different too.

One has a drive that gets faster/more manuverable the further you're away from any stars. Then there's the race that gets the standard scifi drive. Average speed in a straight line.

>>14714784
>A frank Exchange of views

My favourite.

>>14715701
>One has a drive that gets faster/more manuverable the further you're away from any stars

Oh yeah the space dolphins have that one don't they? I can't remember really, I only play humans primarily because I can't stand the voices of any of the other races.

That said, I prefer SotS over SoaSE, mainly because of the larger tech trees and ship customisation options; though I hope SotS2 has more customisation options and some way for missiles to last beyond the early stages of a match - by the time I reached cruiser stage, I usually just filled all the small weapon slots with point defence guns (usually lasers for better accuracy) and filled all the other slots with guns.

>>14715791
You're correct. The dolphins get that one.

I have to admit, the voice acting for all races is pretty horrible. As far as I know, the devs and their families/friends did most of them to save money.
I'm a bit wary of Sots 2 because they already said that they've got 2 addons planned again. And sots 1 wasn't really enjoyable until the second addon.

Humans are my favourite race as well, so I only keep using missles on defense satellites. Their ships' small mounts aren't really useful for anything but pd.

>>14715842

I'm surprised you use missiles (or defence satellites for that matter) at all, I've found little use for them. Though the big question is: Ballistics or lasers?

>>14715791
>I only play humans primarily because I can't stand the voices of any of the other races.
...and the human voices are good?
[camp]No fuel here, commander! We aren't going aaanywhere.[/camp] Also the borderline racist accent impersonations.
The Liir/Tarkas probably have the best VA, because they don't feature horribly forced 'strangeness' (HTHEERE HIS NO FHUEL HERE, MORRO-QU'AAAAAHN/Fooorgeeeve us, my qweeeen- we were sloooow, but successsssful).

Maybe Zuul. The universe heals itself, my lord- shall we wound it anew?

Anyway, I just hope to god they hire some VAs- the SoTS 2 trailer had the same 'gather the office staff to record it' voicework:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDOtzyJmx40
At least the new human ships look a million times more awesome.

>>14716000
Ballistics are awesome if you get impactors. So I usually try to go down ballistics first.

>>14716073
>The uploader has not made this video available in your country
>My face when

Motherfucker. Is there another source on this trailer? I wanna see me some Sword of the Stars 2

Also, I liked the Zuul's VA. Agreed on all the other races, though

Also, did they change the ring-engines of the humans in SoTS2? Because I liked those. They looked distinctive and kind of cool

That was one of my favorite things about SoTS, actually. Every race had such immediately identifiable ships, such highly distinctive ship designs. In terms of aesthetics I loved the.. Morrigi I think they were called? The bird-dragon things. Shame that their voice acting was so atrocious

>>14716243
Here you go:
http://www.paradoxplaza.com/games/sword-of-the-stars-2

From what I've seen, the ring engines get a bit more compact and armoured, but will mostly stay the same.

>>14716073

Relatively speaking, yes. Though the research guy's voice gets a little grating, I'll admit.

>>14716098

I prefer lasers personally, they seem to have a better range, but you can't get point defences if you don't do some ballistic research, so there's that. Ballistics also have that planet cracker cannon, or whatever it's called. Dreadnought sized revolver used for smashing planets, fuck yeah.

>>14716371

Thanks. And that's good. Looking at only a little more than 4 months until it's release date, too. Cool!

>>14716448

Yeah, lasers were almost invariably better than missiles and guns. Most of the really good gun tech was pretty early, as soon as you got armor penetration rounds. Otherwise it was just kind of eh. Missiles became useless way too quickly. I never really found a way to make them work. Then again, I played Morrigi and Zuul, so that may be why since birdfags favor lasers and the glorious Zuul empire favors whatever decent dakka we can get our hands on the fastest

>>14716533

I found lasers work really well for human ships too, especially when you're assaulting an enemy planet. You can just park your ships in front of the planet, use the HC lasers for orbital bombardment, and use the rest of the lasers to take out any incoming defence ships. You'd think the AI would learn to shoot at the engines of human ships...