That is a Hiigaran Battle cruiser from Homeworld 2. Three-dimensions of play allowing for all sorts of normally impossible tactics for outmaneuvering, and render fixed defenses nearly worthless. Hyperspace jumps used as tactical maneuvers to escape that last lethal volley and make repairs. Unless of course they have brought a hyperspace inhibitor into play... or shot off your hyperdrive (targeting subsystems on capital ships... so beautiful).
Too bad he didn't take the one from Homeworld 2 Complex. Which is certainly the best Homeworld 2 mod about, and amazing. It gives me shivers just thinking of the epic battles you can get going in Complex. Hundreds of missiles crisscrossing space, thousands of projectiles flying every direction, beams slicing apart the heavens themselves with brilliance, and every weapon has its course fully mapped so that it hits whatever is in its path. Ships can dodge fire and it not hit them, no dice rolls, no mysterious always hit weapons, if it is on the right path, it hits. If a shot misses its target it can still potentially hit ships behind it.
The huge amount of firepower that can be exchanged in massive final confrontations between fleets of battlecrusisers and battleships with carrier support and screening elements... it is staggering. Frigates die like gnats as projectiles their own size are hurled between the capital ships, carriers burn and explode in brilliant flashes that blot out the screen as their fusion bottles fail. Battlecrusiers stagger as their thick armor is battered. And then, when the battle seems loss, your enemy realizes it was all a ploy to make him commit, his ships scatter and run for the limit of your remaining hyper inhibitors weapons slashing behind them, as your massive, Capital Ship Sized Nuclear Bomb plows into their fleet, and detonates in a flash visible throughout the entire system.
Too bad he didn't take the one from Homeworld 2 Complex. Which is certainly the best Homeworld 2 mod about, and amazing. It gives me shivers just thinking of the epic battles you can get going in Complex. Hundreds of missiles crisscrossing space, thousands of projectiles flying every direction, beams slicing apart the heavens themselves with brilliance, and every weapon has its course fully mapped so that it hits whatever is in its path. Ships can dodge fire and it not hit them, no dice rolls, no mysterious always hit weapons, if it is on the right path, it hits. If a shot misses its target it can still potentially hit ships behind it.
The huge amount of firepower that can be exchanged in massive final confrontations between fleets of battlecrusisers and battleships with carrier support and screening elements... it is staggering. Frigates die like gnats as projectiles their own size are hurled between the capital ships, carriers burn and explode in brilliant flashes that blot out the screen as their fusion bottles fail. Battlecrusiers stagger as their thick armor is battered. And then, when the battle seems loss, your enemy realizes it was all a ploy to make him commit, his ships scatter and run for the limit of your remaining hyper inhibitors weapons slashing behind them, as your massive, Capital Ship Sized Nuclear Bomb plows into their fleet, and detonates in a flash visible throughout the entire system.
