Hey all! With a game such as this coming that looks as if it'll flare up to have apocalypse sized battles in the future, the populer question is, can we have titans and aircraft to make the battles more apocalyptic and intense. SO i took it upon myself to wonder how titans, (If they were to be included) could be balanced, of course, only the lesser variants such as warhounds and mega-dreads should be included as opposed to the big ones such as reaver or gargant. I was thinking it be like this, to manufacture a titan, we would require a metric tonne of recourses, and would require a very specific manufactorum to be built, which can only be found on forge worlds. Once the manufacturing of the titan begins, it will take a week or so to complete, and every player (friend and foe) receives an announcement that a titan of X class is being manufactured by X faction. I'm not sure if a titan should be an NPC or a player, but i was thinking it should be a player, preferably one in the war council (so they know what they are doing and they have experience in tactics and such). It's obvious how destructive these god machines should be, and so i think it's appropriate that everyone is given the announcement, so that nearly every faction could attempt to halt the manufacture. Then we rollover to aircraft, i'm not really sure how to balance these guys.... Any ideas? I was thinking something like planetside in that they requie a fair amount of resources to contruct, and they all have a specific purpose, eg transportation or gunship, the former would be fast-ish and acting like a jet, and the latter being slower, comparable to a helicopter, and so we get comparisons such as the Aquila lander and stormtalon. Not really sure, to be entirely honest, any ideas are welcome Lastly, my favourite part of the 40k lore is the 13th black crusade, wouldn't you love to take part in it? Maybe one of the later added planets could reside in or near the cadia system, so it at least lets us feel as if the lore is advancing i suppose. To wrap this up, what are YOUR ideas on the aforementioned, and do you think they should be added, personally i would LOVE aircraft and titans, but cadia would be kinda nice to have too. Thanks for reading! ...I think this particular thread may have been made previously, but meh, i had to share my ideas or my head would pop.
Titans can't exist in this game. Aircraft I would like to see, but preferably some slow-moving gunships and not the really fast annoying stuff.
I could see pvp warzones where the objective is to destroy the opposing factions Titan before they do yours.
Lore is very unclear on this. In one comic you have titans covered in tyranids from head to toe running around destroying everything in their wake and ignoring everything on them. In one book you have 3 space marines jump on a titan while it's fighting another titan. Climb inside it and destroy it from the inside. I personally prefer the version where it takes incredible firepower or planted explosives to take one down but too many books have situations where that isn't the case.
While I could imagine seeing scout Titants (i. e. Warhounds) in the game, anything larger can not and should not be in the game plainly because it is practically impossible to destroy them without extremely heavy weapons (not to speak of the fact that they usually shoot back). As Karukus said, the fluff has situations where some characters take down a titan without -massive- firepower, but this is just a nice example of plot armor taken to absurd levels.
I'd say make titans High council controlled in terms of movement, while it's firepower is controlled by players manning them. Aircraft? Yes, please, very much so. Fast attack, slow ponderous gunships, Antiair fighters, Bombers. It all adds new layers of meta-gaming.
give this man a cookie awesome idea brother as for aircraft-s make them slow mowing gunships or fast moving scouts who are based to kill the gunships XD and each other or something like that but don't make a fast moving aircraft that can decimate the ground that is just no way to play it maybe transports yes but not a fighter/bomber type craft just no
