Hovertech is most likely a major power-sink… it’s very hard to believe otherwise. It sounds silly but combining the two could have good advantages if done properly. At this point I’m sort of imagining the Taiidan creating hybrids… land vehicles that support the balance of their weight on large wheels but use hovertech to supplement their mobility. This would probably be a manually activated ability like the mortar/DFB.īeyond all of that, one of the major concerns about conceptualizing DoK factions is the ground/hover dichotomy. In exchange, it gains the ability not only to screen aircraft but to also deploy countermeasures against air-to-ground missiles. It would be the supreme anti-air unit but sacrifice its ability to engage other ground targets. In place of conventional air-to-ground missiles the MAD (or whatever… no attachment to the name) would mount at least two flak turrets, screening aircraft with area damage. Mobile Air Defense - This idea I’m a bit more proud of. Spinal mounted ion cannon, psychotic damage levels, no range advantage, no area damage.

Ion Cruiser - This is hardly a stroke of genius on my part, but come on… who wouldn’t want the Taiidan to have a cruiser with an ion cannon? They would have access to the tech, I presume it would be quite plausible to implement it on this scale.

I have two ideas at current for Taiidan ground craft… thought I would try to engage anyone passing through in trying to imagine a complete lineup. Why would a Gaalsien army team up with a Coalition army to fight another Gaalsien army? Or how and when would the Kushan team up with the Vaygr to destroy their own mothership from 100 years in the future? If you can do all of these things in HW death-matches already, then how truly unbelievable is Taiidan in a DoK skirmish? Not so bad I think. But suspension of disbelief is a major component of multiplayer anyway. Would there have been opportunity for their ground army to clash with Kushan armies on Kharak? Well no. Surely, a galactic empire as big as the Taiidan would have such assets. So making buggies or hovercrafts or what-have-you for other prominent HW species makes perfect sense to me, irregardless of time travel, lolool. For me one of the fun things about DoK is imagining that the Kushan continued to use these kinds of military assets in any terrestrial battlegrounds they may have been engaged in after returning home. Time machine? I dunno about that, but fo real, some kind of Taiidan terrestrial military BEGS to be made. A time machine with the Taiidan Republic!

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