Yeah, the Necrons use some sort of tech that allows them to delete the laws of inertia and gravity around their ships so essentially they can accelerate FOREVER (they can also stop precisely when they mean to.) I suppose this would make them the most travel advanced race.

Rule-wise I think the Necrons are beast because they have freakin 21 strength weapons,extreme armor, and various other perks that make them an extreme force to be reckoned with (even with a large Imperial Fleet!)

okay thanks i just wanted to know

The thing about necrons is that they have to divide their gauss particle whip strength at their targets, rather than getting set batteries. While that means that a Carin will be zapping away at one ship at a time with its full 20 GPW strength, it will get no other shots. Compare that to an Imperial Dominator cruiser, wich gets two weapons batteries of str 12 each, for a total of firepower 24. Yes, I know I'm not factoring the Cairn's lightning arcs, but regardless, their big thing in BFG is firepower distribution. That may or may not be practical in this mod, but that's what defines them in the rules of Battlefleet Gothic.

Yeah, we're having a very hard time getting dorsal weapons to work properly, but we think we might be able to get a custom firing arc defined when the mod tools arrive, so that'd work for the necrons too. It's really a problem with multiarc weapons rather than just necrons. And for the record, I would much rather have 20 batteries I can shoot at any target I want than 24 I have to split if I'm good enough to get it between two ships or fire at half strength if I'm not. However, necron weapons are just beastly, and the numbers are skewed by the special rules.

I see Its a shame that gamedevelopers allways say "oh and we'll release modding tools etc etc etc" and then they don't :I

again great work this far, really nice models n all so big cred for that!

would it be possible to change the "bombarding of planets" animation into a sort of drop-pod invasion kinda animation? or perhaps do a little bit of both? I just feels weird to me that you take over a planet by shooting at it

also I think that the battles are a bit slow so perhaps it would be good for the game if a) the ships weponry did more damage or the ships wouldn't be able to take such a beating.

These are just suggestions, and perhaps they've been discussed before and if so I apollogice, I haven't been able to go through all the posts yet

Keep it up, I'll pray for the mod tools or something

Combat mechanics (as of now):

No shield mitigation. Instead, the ship's entire shield strength regenerates in 20 seconds (which is how long ships take to fire their guns, as well). Firepower got boosted hard, so once you focus two ships' fire on one, it'll start taking serious hull damage. This is partly because battlefleet gothic the tabletop game is all about maneuver, so we really hope we can put in minimum speed, or otherwise this system will be more about gathering overwhelming force than about outmaneuvering your opponent. Well, that and being willing/able to get in close enough to fire both sides' guns, although longer ranged fleets may bring back maneuver to try and avoid that.

EDIT:
For now, you'll generally need two ships of a given class to kill a single ship of that class, and they will do so in 80 seconds. It'll take a while, but not all that long. If you make it into three ships pounding on one, then the (poor poor pitiful) one ship will go down in 40 seconds, which is a pretty big decrease. Basically, the shields will take away the first ship's fire, so once you can focus fire on a ship it's going down. Also, keep in mind that I'm using the 20 second recharge for the first shot as well, so in most situations, two ships will be able to kill a ship of the same class in about a minute. However, keep in mind that this is all based off Imperial Navy firepower and shields, so this may vary. For example, chaos gets more guns that can fire to the side in exchange for the Imperials' prow torps (which aren't included in the previous figures, and are pretty nasty as they can punch through shields), so they can finish a ship off more quickly, while tau get a lot of fighters and can fire all their guns prow, so they can kill ships very quickly, although they suffer against larger numbers of ships where their lower overall firepower starts to be a bigger disadvantage.
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And the troops business (at least my understanding):

Ships with lances or bombardment cannon can bombard planets, but it isn't all that effective. The real power in attacking planets is troop transports, which are basically space tin cans stuffed full of troops (except for the exceptions, but they won't be in the first group). These are filled with troops from your planets, so even though they're relatively cheap, they need protection, and throwing them away compromises your own planetary defenses. So instead of pounding the planet into dust, you send in troops to retake it, and transports' cargo is valuable enough to make spamming them a bad idea while leaving them cheap enough to use in large numbers, just not waste.

Sorry I was so verbose, if I got anything wrong correct me, if you get any ideas, please suggest them.

We're still debating how to deal with exterminatus, we're trying to see if we can make them change planet types, so you have virus bombs change an agriworld into a desert planet, and some of the nastier stuff to make it into an asteroid, but if you want the planet, troops are the way to go, exterminatus is more of a planet denial weapon. They're different weapons for different tasks.

And I wrote this while you posted, so here it is:

About torpedoes:
As of now, we're using (awesome looking) placeholders for torpedoes. Instead of an ability that chucks them out into the void on a user-specified course, normal torpedoes are missile weapons that punch through shields 100%. Tau torpedoes will be seeking long range weapons that are triggered as an ability, though, because that's more like they behave in tabletop, and tau need the standoff weapons before they get into a close range slugging match.

I thought of a few things. first up: The resource system, In my oppinion this needs an overhaul, If possible you should change it to just two - natural resources which is gained from mining astroids (get rid of those cheese crystalthingies!) and planets. Apart from the natural resources there should be some type of "cash" or credits or whatever its called for the diffrent races (perhaps "energy" for the necrons) which is collected from colonized planets.

Maybe you could add a third called population or manpower which is generated by planets and necessary for the fleetbuilding portion of the game.

The more you develop your planets the more resources, perhaps (and this is a big maybe cause it might just be to much of a hazzle) high mining/industrilisation of a planet might turn the planet into an "arid" one if it was "earthlike" at the begining, and arid/arctic/vulcanic (colonizing "vulcanic" planets is abit cheese too if you ask me, so perhaps you would have to terraform these before you could even colonize them) planets may be terraformed to become earthlike planets.

Just a few thoughts. as it is now those big ass crystals are just killing the gameatmosphere

(Think I'm gonna start an Imperial fleet irl )

I agree with Regicide, using the Dawn of War resource model would be a great idea. Maybe you could turn resource asteroids into big planetary defences!

MAY ZEUS SMITE ME! Ech... due to camera problems (no charge battery packs!) I'm gunna have to take the Tau ship pics tomorrow , sorry!

Orks as a resource?!
(or am I just confused)

LOL! BEST IDEA EVER!

The orks should only have 1 research station (or maybe program this to add population) and it should be Waaag! banners floatin in space!

I might paint some more tomorrow. Even if I'm not done I'll take pictures with Kiernyc's camera.

EDIT: what ever happened to i nert? Did he change his name while I wasn't looking?