Re: What space craft do the Space Marines use in Space Crusade?

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Jan 20, 2012; 1:20am
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according to the Space Crusade Mission Book the marines in Space Crusade do indeed use Docking Claws (as pictured)



the above would seem to indicate that this ...

... is 'The Mothership'. It appears to be similar in design to the old Gothic Battleship and Firestorm Cruiser (from Space Fleet) but doesn't look 100% like either ship and is never named apart from being called 'The Mothership'




in the same manner the assault ships are never called anything but 'Assault Vessels' to indicate what class of ship they might be. My guess would be one of the following ...


 ^ Cobra Destroyers (seem small enough to be launched from another ship) 


 ^ Galaxy Troop Ship (it's a troop ship, which would indicate it's use in boarding actions)


 ^ Ironclad Battleship (could those front bits extend Docking Claws?)

another interesting candidate is ...

 ^ Dictator Battleship (but the little bit of text I have about this ship indicates those are 'Power Claws' for ripping apart other ships and not 'Docking Claws' for boarding actions)

please note there are other ships from the more recent Battle Fleet Gothic range which designed to be used in boarding action - tomorrow I will dig out my BFG rulebook and see what I can find (it's late now as I write) and I'll also get onto talking about Boarding Torpedoes, Thunder-Hawks, ect and boarding actions as described in Space Hulk