Starfleet Troop landing craft

[Bryan Moore]

I like the nacelle placement from above, but not from the sides. They are indeed too far back. I can shift them forward somewhat, but not too far or they obscure the aft landers. What I might do is angle them down, like on a Nebula class, so they are out of the same plane as the landers altogether.

Yeah, I'd angle down or up. Down and it might have a sort of steamrunner look.

[McAvoy]

I'd just lower the nacelles pylongs a further down the hull without angling them and might be able to shift them forward.

The single connections on the landing craft doesn't look structurally sound. I would place clamps down on the wings. But that's just me.

[Graham Kennedy]

Nebula-style nacelle configuration. I like this much better; the nacelles are well out of the way of the landers now and the styling looks a little more like the Galaxy/Nebula style.

If you read the earlier posts, you'll see that I am planning to have wing clamps already.

Oh, and this configuration reduces the length to 368.7 metres.

[Aaron]

I like the stacked landers, looks good that way.

[Graham Kennedy]

Prelim Specs :

Class : Gurung
Type : Assault Landing Ship
Length : 368.7 m (landers in place), 367.9 m (hull only)
Beam : 201.8 m (landers in place), 200.2 m (hull only)
Height : 56.4 m
Decks : 16
Mass : 500,000 metric tons
Armament : 3 x Type VIII Phaser arrays; 12 x Type V Phaser banks
Shields : Medium capacity standard shielding
Auxiliary Craft : 14 x Assault landing craft, 14 shuttlecraft
Crew : 175 Starfleet; up to 2,800 troops

[Nickswitz]

I like the design, it looks like a Starfleet ship, and I like the stats, very nominal stats.

[Graham Kennedy]

I will add, the class name deserves a little explanation. The class is named after winners of the Victoria Cross, with the lead ship named after Lachhiman Gurung, Here's the description of what Rifleman Gurung did in World War II...

On 12/13 May 1945 at Taungdaw, Burma (now Myanmar), Rifleman Lachhiman Gurung was manning the most forward post of his platoon which bore the brunt of an attack by at least 200 of the enemy. Twice he hurled back grenades which had fallen on his trench, but the third exploded in his right hand, blowing off his fingers, shattering his arm and severely wounding him in the face, body and right leg. His two comrades were also badly wounded but the rifleman, now alone and disregarding his wounds, loaded and fired his rifle with his left hand for four hours, calmly waiting for each attack which he met with fire at point blank range. Afterwards, when the casualties were counted, it is reported that there were 31 dead Japanese around his position which he had killed, with only one arm.

[Tyyr]

We call a lot of people badasses, once in a while we hear of someone who truly was/is one.

[McAvoy]

If you read the earlier posts, you'll see that I am planning to have wing clamps already.

I did read the earlier posts but merely forgot about it.

The nacelles look 'off' to me. Don't know what it is.

[Sionnach Glic]

Very cool. And something that SF definitely needs.

[Captain Seafort]

We call a lot of people badasses, once in a while we hear of someone who truly was/is one.

Heartily agreed. Although if someone's a Ghurka or a VC, let alone both, you can pretty much take it for granted.

[Mark]

All I can say is................wow.

And I'm liking the Nebula nacelles alot better personally.

[Atekimogus]

I really like the artwork and the basic design and workings of this ship, it reminds me a bit of the one seen in the tng-techmanual but maybe that is a coincidence.

What I think is rather meh is the whole premise of the ship. Now I might be a minority here but I don't see starfleet having a use for such a ship. Maybe the klingon empire when they were still out conquering worlds but not the UFP. Also I am not a huge fan for ships with an ultra-specialist role. Sure they are the very best at the thing they do which means nothing when the average travel time is weeks. Also most of the time they would be mothballed because they just are not needed.


What I do not like is the class name. Sorry but considering a ww3, eugenic wars, a multiple race society I just can't see naming a ship class after a ww2 hero noone really heard about before. Ww2 - altough important - is not the whole of mankinds history but really only a small part, time to get over it.
Aren't the Andorians supposed to be the present day humans in trek aka a bit more militaristic? Name it after a famous Andorian general and create a nice backstory for it for example.

All of this is of course just my opinion and I again I find the artwork and concept really great.

[Graham Kennedy]

I really like the artwork and the basic design and workings of this ship, it reminds me a bit of the one seen in the tng-techmanual but maybe that is a coincidence.

Hmm, it's not directly based off the modular Nova concept, but there's certainly influence there.

What I think is rather meh is the whole premise of the ship. Now I might be a minority here but I don't see starfleet having a use for such a ship. Maybe the klingon empire when they were still out conquering worlds but not the UFP.

The idea is that these ships were built for or just after the Cardassian conflict. We konw ground actions were involved in that war; having ships that can support them effectively is only common sense.

Also I am not a huge fan for ships with an ultra-specialist role. Sure they are the very best at the thing they do which means nothing when the average travel time is weeks. Also most of the time they would be mothballed because they just are not needed.

I have no problem with the idea that these ships would be mothballed during peacetime and taken out again for the Dominion war.

What I do not like is the class name. Sorry but considering a ww3, eugenic wars, a multiple race society I just can't see naming a ship class after a ww2 hero noone really heard about before. Ww2 - altough important - is not the whole of mankinds history but really only a small part, time to get over it.

Oh come on, Starfleet is an organisation that has named ships after 20th century anime movies and 19th century imaginary warships! Not to mention ships named after people, places or things that are millennia old.

As a ground forces ship, I wanted names that honour the infantry precisely because such people are generally forgotten in favour of the Generals and Admirals and such. I have no problem with that.

All of this is of course just my opinion and I again I find the artwork and concept really great.

Thanks

[Atekimogus]

Oh come on, Starfleet is an organisation that has named ships after 20th century anime movies and 19th century imaginary warships! Not to mention ships named after people, places or things that are millennia old.

Which I always thought was unimaginitive, boring, lazy etc. hence my challange to do better. (Having a USS Yamato was as surprising as it gets and I am still waiting for a Bismarck, Scharnhorst or Prinz Eugen to even the odds )

Can't remember exactly but what was the name of the nebula-class ship in DS9 with the all vulcan crew? I bet not even this ship got a made up vulcan name !