Hi everyone! I’m here with a new update!
Ok, this is a long one, so be prepared for a lot of ranting! No peeking to the end, it’s funnier this way!
First of all, a confession: I really dislike kroot. And I dislike even more the idea of kroot flying around in space on a giant hamster ball.
Even thus, I liked the idea of using a ship with the kroot sphere rules, so I tried to think of something that I could use as a count as.
Now, let me sum the main characteristics (in my opinion) of the kroot sphere:
- Large model;
- Very dangerous in boardings;
- Average shooting;
- Doesn’t suffer critical hits (just more damage);
- Catastrophical hits automatically release a cloud of blast markers;
- Good in planetary assault, but only when physically touching the planet.
Now, with all this in mind, and being a Demiurg fan, I devised another method of asteroid mining for our beloved space dorfs: the Demiurg mining rig!
The idea is that, when Demiurg don’t want to mine the whole asteroid, but they only want its choicest minerals, they cut off a portion of the asteroid and land some engine modules and the rig itself on it.
The rig then releases a series of probing, mining and transporting drones that find and gather the chosen materials, and when they are done it’s a simple matter of recovering the Rig and enjoying the new riches!
With this in mind, I started checking if it would fit the sphere “characteristicsâ€:
- Large model – check;
- Very dangerous in boardings – The drones would “harvest†the boarded\boarding ship, so I’d say check;
- Average shooting – the rig only has some defense armament, it’s not a frontline vessel;
- Doesn’t suffer critical hits (just more damage) – since it’s largely made of “asteroidâ€, it sort of fits;
- Catastrophical hits automatically release a cloud of blast markers – same here, when it explodes the asteroids absorbs the impact and becomes blast markers;
- Good in planetary assault, but only when physically touching the planet – not a serious shooting, but I imagine the drones (each supposedly as big as a titan) could wreak serious havoc on a planet.
Now the model! I designed it as a series of components (namely the rig, engines and various drones), to be added to a core of Styrofoam “asteroid†roughly 15cm x 10cm x 5 cm. In the pictures, the purple solid stands in place of the asteroid slice.
Picture time!
First some pictures of the whole model, and some engine details...
