A pictorial history of the Templar Navy

(ship screenies)


Shown here is the Terranova class battleship Invincible, along with most of Taskforce Beta, just after sucessful fleet action off Dark Yor. The Terranova was designed with ancient naval lines in mind, as seen by the sweeping bow and tiered super-structure.


Two Sabres from Taskforce Alpha engage heavy elements from an Altarian fleet. The Banshee class cruiser Martin is shown in the background. The venerable Terranova class Battleships Redoubt and Repulse provided heavy fire in the opening stages of the engagements, significantly weakening the Altarian cruisers, even causing heavy fire in one ship (shown by the heavy pall of smoke erupting from the mid-section of the Altarian light cruiser).


Banshee class cruisers, Westerfeld and Iversonia in action with Taskforce Gamma near Artimis IV deep inside Altarian terrirtory. Pictured in the background is the Terranova class Battleship, Renown.


Ares dreadnaught class Templar with Taskforce Gamma in action off Altarian planet Martzia. The Terranova class Battleship Renown and a Banshee class cruiser can be seen in the background. The Templar is the Navy's flagship and is shown here firing a salvo from 3 of its massive phasor arrays. The Ares class is a larger more powerful design based on the same lines as the Terranova.
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Reply #1 Top
Awe inspiring! The finest looking ship pics I have seen to date. I'd like to see some of your smaller class vessels. I follow a similar design philosophy trying to adopt a real naval flavor to my ship designs (though I can't say I have been as successful as you!).
Reply #2 Top
Wow.. Nice ships! Best looking ships i've seen so far.
Reply #3 Top
Nice. I've been taking a similar approach.
Reply #4 Top
Wow! Uh, wow! Wowowowow! I thought I was getting better at ship design because I quit using the blank hulls and started adding wings to my ships. Wow. wow, i suck.
Reply #5 Top
Very good, my own designs looks more like floating weapon platforms
Reply #6 Top
This might sound stupid but how do you post images like this?

Thanks
Reply #7 Top
Wow that's some of the best looking models I seen so far. Speaking of which, is there away to export the models you make in the game designer and share it with other ppl?

thanks and keep up the good work!
Reply #9 Top
That is absolutely impressive
Reply #10 Top
What hull styles and colors did you choose?
Reply #11 Top
Amazing!!! if you can, save out your ship files to a zip and post them someplace as I would love to see how you set those up.
Reply #12 Top
My god, those ships are simply sublime. Some people - you included - really know how to go to town with the ship builder. More pictures!

Edit: Those are Drengin ships btw; You can see that they're the same hulls as Frogboys "Avenger" class from one of his game writeups =D
Reply #13 Top
As stated above...WOW! Very well done!
Reply #14 Top
This might sound stupid but how do you post images like this?


I'm not sure about everyone else here, but I usually host my images at photobucket.com. They're free and have a pretty easy interface.

Once you have the pic up on photobucket (or a similar site, like imageshack), then you just copy the image link into your post.
Reply #15 Top
I just wanted to give congrats on this ship design! Looks great.
Reply #17 Top
Color scheme: Dark grey hull, black trimming, light blue engine color. I like it gritty.
Hull type: Drengin.

If you're trying for a similar look and feel you need to choose your hull carefully. Some of the base hulls are like big bulbous whales and I found those types to be unsuitable. The longer and flatter hull types seem to work best. The choice of Drengin hull types was based on prior experience - I imagine you can adapt a simliar type to most of the other races. These ships draw heavily on the high quality extra components found in the collectors edition.

Most ship designs I've seen tend towawrds a "fighter" style. Wings, x-wings, cannons everywhere, big chunky appendanges thrashing around. Most of the available hull types also seem to lean that way too, almost encouraging such designs. But larger ships aren't just big fighter planes. Big capital ships should be given a sense of command and power - not just look like a bigger version of a fighter plane. The distinction between a StarWars Star Destroyer and a Tie Fighter is pretty clear. One looks like a fly and the other is clearly a big hulking war machine. Big ships look big not because of their size, but because they have little things on them which give them a large perspective. On the dreadnaught those two components stuck onto the stern are huge pieces, even when scaled right down.

Thanks for the encouragement. I will get some more screenies tonight. And maybe a new design too
Reply #18 Top
You, my friend, are an artist. I thought my designs were good, until I saw your cinematic, epic-appearing ships. Awesome. I look forward to more of your ships. I also love the names--I tend toward those types of names as welll.

The power of this ship designer is amazing. I would have bought this game for that alone.
Reply #19 Top
I might add this is a good argument for the multiplayer addon, assuming you can save these designs from game to game. I'd love to put my friends to shame with these,
Reply #20 Top
Very Nice.
Reply #21 Top
Fantastic! 
Reply #22 Top
Now my question is... I didn't pre-order the game... (silly me didn't pay enough attention to the shipping date and I didn't know it was out until the 23rd of last month)
But I would really really like the extra components... Can I pay a supplement to get an upgraded version?
Reply #24 Top
Rogerano, have you taken a look at mine, yet, by the way?

https://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=162&AID=104163

https://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=162&AID=103617
Reply #25 Top
Looks like Vagyr battlecruisers from Homeworld 2. Very cool!