Metal Mayhem is coming

**Bwian** · 10-18-2006, 22:24

Right.....now for some examples of what will sit on top of those base units!

First into combat is a medium rated combat unit. Armed with twin spinning disc weapons. Suitable for mounting on medium rated chassis, or...with reduced armour, on a light chassis. These are seen in place on a medium wheeled chassis:

Next, we will see how this unit looks mounted on the other available medium chassis....... but not now!

**Bwian** · 10-19-2006, 22:27

And, in order to show the variations planned.... here is the same basic mesh with the battering and snipping weapons. Each basic combat unit will be available with a variety of weapons depending on the research done.

Next job is to attach the same unit to the tracked and walking chassis.....

One model....9 units!

**Bwian** · 10-24-2006, 21:57

Not all of the droids employed in combat on the New World were built there. Some came as part of the original ships complement. Thousands were packed up in travel cannisters and loaded into the cargo pods. Many survived, waiting to be activated. Others were built from ready packaged factories, ready to serve the colony's needs. They were designed to build, to maintain and to serve. With the addition of simple armour to protect the positronic cortex, they also served as soldiers.

4 manipulator arms allowed them to perform a variety of tasks....including battering other droids into submission. After all...this is war!

Follow on designs removed the manipulator arms and replaced them with basic compressed gas projectile launchers. A cheap and simple conversion utilising readily available rivet guns to give limited offensive capabilty.

Further variants replaced the arms with digging tools, for those tunnelling and mining requirements. Field conversion of standard equipment.

more pictures to follow......

**Bwian** · 10-25-2006, 21:47

These guys are the missile adapted variant. The manipulator assemblies have been removed in order to provide secure mounts for the weapons, and to save weight. These guys are range attacks only!

On this model, the handling gear is removed and digging spades installed instead. These are surprisingly effective in combat, and give them the ability to tunnel.

Factions distinguish themselves by their differing camouflage colourschemes

**Bwian** · 10-26-2006, 22:27

Since no-one else wants to post in the thread, I'll just carry on with the screenshots!

A mixed battery of artillery is over-run by armoured servitors.

In the meantime...I have managed to get the unit cards done for the artillery and fixed the push points so the units push in the right place. Next job is to finish off the projectiles and then get started on some UI stuff

**Sundjata Keita** · 10-26-2006, 22:40

The lack of replies is only a testament to the awe these screenshots create. It's great that such an adventurous mod is surviving.

**Bwian** · 10-26-2006, 22:58

That's a relief! I thought everyone had run off to wait for MTW2

If the tools allow, I will certainly be porting this over to the new engine if it has modding potential. If it doesn't, then there is no reason not to finish this off for RTW/BI. It looks perfectly good enough and has a mature toolset.

I am tempted to make a video of some of this stuff in action.....the stills don't show the units rolling, and that's my favourite bit!

This weekend, I hope to port over my original RTW map for BI, and get a few more units top-halves built. And a new look interface. And then some new strat map models....and so on! Want to make some new battlemap foliage too!