Piranha

Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

Piranha

The Piranha is a light; fast and agile naval unit designed for scouting missions and hit and run tactics. It's armed with a small torpedo launcher useful for harrasing enemy ships and a mounted light machine gun for other targets. The Piranha may be weak alone, but like the fish it's named after, can be devastating in a group and can out manouvere the larger and more cumbersome vessels of GDI.

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Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Nice. I guess the rocket launchers could be more visible. I can't exactly tell them apart from the remap, but I suspect they are on the rear?

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Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

Correct, I have been pondering whether a dash of slightly brighter remap would make them a bit more visible ?

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Orac · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:51 pm Post subject:

Probably, yes. But with the way remap looks in TS/TO, it'd get closer and closer to pink as we move higher up the remap spectrum. Not a huge problem, since it can probably be fixed with slight edits to the values in the rules.
I'll give defining the missile pods a go, but they're pretty small on this craft... Maybe ridiculously large pods ala everything else would be a better idea?

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

can't you make the pods stand out more by giving them a single white voxel as the missile tip and maybe also give the inner part towards the cockpit a brighter color, to get a higher contrast.

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Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

After some consideration we've decided to change the weapon to side mounted machine guns, we'll be tweaking the graphics for it soon as it shouldn't be a very hard fix. I'll edit the original post when I get an image!

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

MGs against ships, the strongest armored units ever? Then preferable missiles which can be at least armor piercing.
Or maybe give it a secondary micro-torpedo in addition to the MGs.

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Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

The problem we had was if the Piranha used missiles it'd be very, if infact not too similar to the currently unrevealed second tier Nod ship, I was planning on making these bullets a bit more special from the standard machine gun bullets making them higher calibre (visually different) and perhaps even leaving very small explosions to show thier higher power. A group of 2 - 3 would be nicely effective in harrasing GDI ships and eating away slowly at armour like little Piranhas. I would love to have a mini torpedo but it would be a pain to see it travveling on land occasionally. I could perhaps try and do some quick thinking with armour types (already using them all) and make a dummy secondary weapon that won't fire on other targets. If anyone has other suggestions please feel free to post them as we're still not 100% dead set on how the current naval units are and have already made some modifications over some good feedback!

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

more ideas,
-acid spray
-small, short range tesla charge
-constantly fired, but weak laser
-vortex creator device thingy
-tsunami wave creator thingy
-water bomb
-melee battering ram attack
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blubb · General **Joined**: 31 Jul 2005

what about conventional weapons...? like a small torpedoe for ships or gatling guns/machine guns that fire at air and sea targets?

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Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

Okay, thanks to some suggestions I have now done some tweaking and editing and changed the Piranha yet again. It now has a single torpedo launcher for use against ships and a light machine gun for the other targets it encounters. Thanks for the feedback it's been very helpful!

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iamn00b · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:42 pm Post subject:

how about smal grinder that damage slowly, make it cheap and spammable. attacking bigger target in pack, it will be real piranha :p

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Lord Firestorm · Soldier **Joined**: 20 Jun 2010

Honestly, I like the idea of dual .50 Calibers with AP ammo moreso than mini-torpedoes...