HWPs Suggestions

[moriarty]

because a post in the new weapon idea thread got me thinking about it, here the same thing in the right thread:

I think it might be nice to have an unarmed but heavily armored support tank. the idea would be that your troops can use it as mobile cover (or, of course, you might use it as a scout/spotting unit). it would have something like 5-10x the armor value, but no weapon of its own.

it would only make sense as a Tracked Chassis unit, I think. if you want to prevent its (mis)use as a scout, you could also limit the speed.
I would primarily use it for slow advances in open areas... for example the street in a terror site. I hate it when half my team dies because a pack of cyberdisks lurks in the shadows on the other side.

[Chiko]

Hmm... It's an original idea. I'll see if I can do something with the sprites.

[luke83]

Been thinking about those walker of your as a Terror unit for one of my Gangs ( since there in league with the aliens) Have you got the entire sprite set of them completed ?

[Chiko]

Well, not really. The different sections for Unit sprites, specially the big ones kinda confuse me. I have tried to move to unit sprite sets but it makes my head hurt by just looking at them.

I can only make example sprites for now.

[luke83]

Thats cool there's no rush , i know what its like when you sit down to modify a entire set of sprites its a huge job ( especially when your note getting paid ).

[papamaanbeer]

i have red" this yesterday,
and today couldnt stop thinking about the heavy armor tank to take cover behind.
(at first i thought it was to bulky and would have to move to slowy (because of its armour)
and with slow speed it wouldnt realy do a good job)

i would like to ad to this idea, to give it a smoke grenade launcher
and the abilety to create a smoke screen around its self.
it would not need to have ridiculous armor strenght.
and still provide cover.
smoke does actually impair aliens vission right?! 

[Warboy1982]

i've got this semi-working in my fork, but the turret placement isn't quite working out right, i guess i have no choice but to redraw some sprites, but i've got a draw routine in place for it. i'm gonna try to work on the sprites for it today, get it looking just right, thankfully, because of the way it is drawn, the turret can appear "embedded" in the chassis rather than superimposed. i'll let you know what level of success i can achieve, this idea is well worth the effort.

[Warboy1982]

k, so....

please note: these are in-game, and not mock-ups.

raw sprites:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/47596892/tank2.rar

.pck format:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/47596892/tank2pck.rar

[luke83]

Nice work , When you get time you should add them to the Mod site for Long term storage

[Yankes]

MechWarrior Now only add pilot that need operate it (when destroyed he can exit it or die inside) and allow equip different weapons (only before fight).

[Chiko]

Nice to see someone managed to make the human-created sectopod real. Only thing we need now is having the HWPs and cannons/launchers as separated items already. :3