Am I that worse these days? lolI mean, HA is heading good directions overall (Tau, Marines, FAQ) and nitpicking is just a bad habbit we all have.Mythological names is indeed the way to go. To keep the Chaos trend. I await next week with my pitchfork raised.
I am REALLY intrigued with the Pillager profile, though to be honest I still haven't play-tested it so I can't say what its really worth (Smotherman's formula is a guideline, NOT a hard and fast mechanic). However, I HATE the name. Pillager sounds like something to name an Ork kroozer, not something from Chaos. Fight over the name for this one as well and tell me what we're calling it.
Just to make it clear, I haven't playtested it either. It was just something I spitballed. I was trying to come up with a carrier that wouldn't fill the exact same role as the Devastation. I had the idea that maybe the ship would have been designed to fight escorts rather than other cruisers so batteries rather than lances seemed appropriate and the extra turret found on the Dev wouldn't be as necessary. The pirate hunting theme in my little intro paragraph for the Pillager followed from there. I really like the idea of a ship that was originally designed to hunt pirates going pirate itself. I'm not dead set on the name Pillager as it doesn't quite fit the Chaos naming scheme but all the good synonyms are already taken by Chaos and Ork ships. We could use the name from one of my rejected ideas: Ravage. Is that any better? Anyone else want to chime in on the name or proposed statline?
I will be playtesting these in detail next weekend to see how they play in the Gauntlet scenario and immersed in a fleet. Sigoroth recommended Charon, Cerberus, Nyx, Thanatos, Cronus, Tartarus, Minos, Hypnos, Gorgyra, and Erebus as names. Cerebus is his vote to replace the Hellfire proposal. The Pillager is your ship- pick from the rest of the names and tell me what it's called. nothing Orky so Ravage is out!
I like Havoc too, especially if it has AC. You know, letting loose the dogs of war, and all I like Antagonist, Butcher, Slayer, Extermination, Termination.For heavies I'd say Abyss, Underworld, Necropolis, Nephilim, Inferno.
So no new cruiser hulls, only heavies then? I like all my suggestions but Neropolis for it.
Well since the current carrier is called a Devastation, how about the Decimation class? The word has come to mean pretty much the same thing over time [though originally a form of discipline used by the Romans to punish cowardly troops, whereby 1 in 10 of the offenders, randomly chosen, would be bludgeoned to death by the remaining 9].
From what I've seen so far, I'm liking Rampage, Inferno, Charon, Cerberus, Thanatos, Tartarus, Gorgyra, and Hellhound. Again, that's just me.- Nate