Creeper World 3

[Kingo]

How about a IPAMM (inter-planet anti-matter missile) base that charges for a while, and when launched the missile strikes into the Creeper and effectively owns the Creeper, but takes forever to make one? or somewhere near forever. 

[Ebon Heart]

No over powered kill all weapons! No! Just no!

[Kingo]

No over powered kill all weapons! No! Just no!

This does not "kill all," it has the power of a mortar amplified just a few times. This isn't Thor, or the Dark Beam, just a slight advantage. Keep in mind the maps may be larger, and the amounts of creeper may be larger.

[Michionlion]

this could also be something that made mission ahead easier... say you can't build it 'on-the-surface', but when launched from your ship gives you a temporary respite, maybe so that you could get through those massive creeper waves that supposedly took over planets in cw1 (what you were fleeing from).  might be a cool mechanic, a sort of 'race' to get stuff before the creeper comes back from titan emitters.

EDIT: it could also easily be worked into the story.  In-fact, i might use it :D

[knucracker]

Exactly...
There will likely be an orbital weapon like this for just this purpose.  I may also allow the orbital ship to carry a small sqaud of pre built units.

[Ebon Heart]

How will all this work with custom maps and fairly keeping score?

[Michionlion]

the orbital ship and such will probably be determined per-map.

[TheBuilder]

- Planetary orbit obtained.  Target designation; Hope. -

- Orbital laser array fully charged and in position; firing. -

- Dropping garrisoned units.  Dropping command nodes. -

- Foothold established, procceding with mission. -

[Kingo]

How about a temporary connection generator?

If your blasters are in a pool of Creeper, and gets overwhelmed from the rear, you can move a connection generator and keep them connected before they die. Or if there is a wave of Creeper coming from the North and you have to move a blaster quickly but can't without building another collector, then you have a solution. The connection distance could be maybe as long as a collector?

The cost might be somewhere in between a collector and relay.

[Nemoricus]

Hmm....I wonder if this unit is the Nullifier. It's not a Terrap, since there's one right next to it in the second picture from this week's blog, and since it has an ammo bar, it's most likely a weapon. Since it's not visible in any other picture, it seems most likely that it's the nullifier.

[CobraKill]

Two suggestions

1. A flak gun. Fires 10 shots that are scattered around where it aimed. Each pellet will have a small explosion. Fires at the most optimal place in its meduim range.

2. LRMWSSM (Long Rang Multiple Warhead Surface to Surface Missile) A Bertha cannon sized base that fires missiles every 10 seconds. Hits randomly with 5 explosions in a user selected area the size of an unupgraded  CW1 mortar's range. Weapon range is the whole map.

[knucracker]

Hmm....I wonder if this unit is the Nullifier. It's not a Terrap, since there's one right next to it in the second picture from this week's blog, and since it has an ammo bar, it's most likely a weapon. Since it's not visible in any other picture, it seems most likely that it's the nullifier.

That's just a Mortar... but the image was taken right as it was firing.  So there is a nearby shell, and there is a smoke ring that is just starting to expand over the Mortar.

[F0R]

Can't wait for CW3. I loved the way cw1 was set out and the concept of CW3. This is going to be cool :D

[Nemoricus]

Ah, that makes sense! No wonder I couldn't find it in any other pictures.

Any chance that we'll get to see the nullifier in action at some point?

[thepenguin]

we already have, I beleive