Talk:Spaceships

From Acw

I'd like to see some discussion of the general flavour of faction ships. General ideas for ship design:

• Soviet ships should be industrial bohemoths, with square edges and modular components. The smaller ones should be the T-54s of space, while the capital ships are essentially flying Soviet Realism monuments.
• Grossdeutch ships could come in a couple of flavours - the SS ones are essentially black angular wedges, the bastard offspring of a King Tiger and a stealth bomber. The Raumwaffe ships should remind you of the later more experimental German jets - [1], [2], [3], and pretty much all of http://www.luft46.com/. I'm not sure what a Grossdeutch capital ship would look like.
• British capital ships should have a nautical feel to them - battleships and star destroyers lofting through space. I'd imagine the smaller ships as more conventional fighters and bombers, with a Dan Dare vibe to them - Warren Ellis' Ministry of Space captures the general spirit I'm looking for. Civilian ships probably have a more classic feel to them - space-yachts!
• American ships should have a brutish practicality about them, but still maintain a sense of style. it's probably easiest if they approximate aircraft carriers, and their smaller ships modern fighters, though the idea of a flying skyscraper also appeals to me.