Fortifications to Drop Pods?

[Olgerth Istaarn]

Just curious if anyone tried modeling fortifications (particularly, elements of the Wall of Martyrs and the Imperial Bastion) to look like landing craft instead of well, buildings. I find it unbearably stupid that you can field fortifications as a part of the army list (yeah right, your army showed up with that Fortress of Redemption in its back pocket). But it would be OK if they were presented as landing craft of some kind, i.e. the Bastion has a potential to be a humongous drop capsule... but I haven't seen anyone do it.

 

Have you?

[JeffTibbetts]

Holy cow, that's such an excellent idea! My army fluff is all about drop pods. If I ever do fortifications, this WILL happen. I love it! 

[Lord Rust]

I had the same idea for my army, the Sons of Rust arent much for conquest, more hit and run raiding tactics so static defenses doesnt make any sense

but the idea of an oversized "drop pod" that could be dropped from low orbit onto a battlefield was my excuse/reason for using a bastion

[Kierdale]

I've heard it suggested but have yet to see it.

The idea certainly has merit. Excellent modelling opportunities too.

[Kaedes Nex]

For my Carcharodons army, their fluff implies they don't really use fortifications. Even if they captured the enemy's fortification they'd just clear them out and move on, they wouldn't really bunker down.

 

So what I did to use the Void Generators was take a 100mm resin base, and then made the "fortification" a giant spike/stake torpedo that was fired from the Shark's flagship into the planet's surface to provide a void shield for their forces to advance through otherwise impassable enemy siege fire. A Void Relay Network is simply three shots fired so the generators line up in a row. The field is projected from the top half of the projectile that juts out of the cratered ground which houses the void generators. The entire base counts as the AV13 building and any unit standing on top of the projectile or on the base are on the embattlements.

 

Have yet to play any games with them but I don't know if that's a good enough justification to use unfluffy units.

 

The other alternative is the fortifications are simply dropped from the sky, just like Dawn of War IG and Ork buildings, or Blood Angel Land Raiders.

[War Angel]

Pictures?

[Disruptor_fe404]

I have a pencil sketch lying around somewhere in my bag of my idea for turning a Drop Pod into an ADL.

 

The biggest problem was (still is, actually) how much leftover material there is; those Drop Pod doors have quite the surface area.

 

That's probably less of an issue for a Drop Bastion, but that would have height problems.

[Warsmith Aznable]

I used to play Battletech, and I was thinking at one point that I could make a Bastion to look sort of like a Union-class dropship. I like the image of space marines shooting a mobile fortress at the ground a lot more than I do of space marines cracking open a conex and hastily assembling an Ikea building.

 

For an ADL the GW model seems OK, though this thread has a more realistic idea for temporary fortifications.

[Xenith]

That's how the buildings deploy in Dawn of War.

 

ADL's and such are designed to be dropped off by dropship too, if I remember correctly.

 

I'd imagine they would take the form of a supply crate that comes apart like one of those puzzles into a pre-fab defence.

[Kaedes Nex]

I have a pencil sketch lying around somewhere in my bag of my idea for turning a Drop Pod into an ADL.

 

The biggest problem was (still is, actually) how much leftover material there is; those Drop Pod doors have quite the surface area.

 

That's probably less of an issue for a Drop Bastion, but that would have height problems.

 

Drop pod opens up. The ramps have defense lines on the inside and open up into a wall when the ramps fold out flat. The center of the drop pod is a compact quad gun that folds up and shoots out from inside the drop pod.

[Disruptor_fe404]

Drop pod opens up. The ramps have defense lines on the inside and open up into a wall when the ramps fold out flat. The center of the drop pod is a compact quad gun that folds up and shoots out from inside the drop pod.

 

Exactly what I had for the center of the pod, but the footprint of an open pod is far too big for an ADL, especially when the walls also have to touch each other and the gun.

 

It's why I actually used the pod's vertical struts as the ADL's actual lines and left the doors unused on the ground, reasoning that the Astartes manning the line would spend a minute or two picking them up and assembling them on the ground.

[Mikel.G]

 

In my personal fluff I envisioned containers, similar to shipping containers, carried by Thunderhawk Transports to the landing zone and located in place via
Techmarine Rhinos. Various containers could be components of the larger fortification (Command/Communications, Field Apothecarion, Anti-Air Bunker, etc).