One orc, flung overboard in the collision, clings to a barrel, pondering what to do...now free of the telepathic domination of the mind flayers, he knows if they capture him again he'll be their willing stooge, and one day they'll sup on his brains...but if the humans catch him, they may just execute him anyway...so he lies still, hoping to be ignored, but rescued before his air runs out.
(ships modeled in Rhino, people in Poser, rendered in Vue6)
funny how similarly sized the two ships look (probably because you can't see the length of the nautiloid i would guess?)
i would have expected more people on the squidship though... if you're going to fight by boarding, you need to have lots of boarding troops ;) (i think the squidship is gonna lose unless those are some really high level PCs or something :P )
When I rebuilt the SJ ships I decied a lot of the sizes simply didn't make sense, as the internal deckplans vs external sizes etc didn't match up, I posted about this on the SJ email list, and rebuilt them to what I think are practical sizes. Thus there is *no way* the nautiloid cna be a small 35 ton ship as the deckplans show it's HUGE.
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/sj/sjships1.mov
that movie shows my ships side by side, the white grid sticks are 5' metres, to give scaling.
well, mind flayers...without high level folk etc you're probably "munchies" ;)
Well I can't put in every combatant, I'm not Industrial Light and Magic and it strains my PC as it is to render that out ;)
When I rebuilt the SJ ships I decied a lot of the sizes simply didn't make sense, as the internal deckplans vs external sizes etc didn't match up, I posted about this on the SJ email list, and rebuilt them to what I think are practical sizes. Thus there is *no way* the nautiloid cna be a small 35 ton ship as the deckplans show it's HUGE.
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/sj/sjships1.mov
that movie shows my ships side by side, the white grid sticks are 5' metres, to give scaling.
well, mind flayers...without high level folk etc you're probably "munchies" ;)
yeah, i remember reading that discussion. I figure i'm gonna have to get around to some rough deckplans for the ships i whipped up in my head soon, and i'm hoping i didn't screw up the dimensions horribly (i sometimes get some weird numbers, myself). hopefully i won't make the same mistake :P
as far as defeating mind flayers, according to the pirates of realmspace game, it's easy. you've got maybe 6 or 7 flayers, and a simple stinking cloud spell tends to make them stand there and take a beating :P (of course, this also fouls your air envelope, but given a choice between foul air and no brains, i'll take foul air anyday... particularly when a similarly low level spell can often refresh your envelope). neogi, on the other hand, are a major PITA.
however, if you want a more reasonable way, it's also quite possible for a group of level 0s to destroy a nautiloid, provided they don't do something stupid like boarding the enemy ship.
would LOVE to see a proper SJ PC game!!
In PnP, in Wild Space, plane shifting dimension dooring mind flayer raiding parties would so suck! ;)