Any idea what kind of Warship was in the trailer?

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Rørik Þrumsålr

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I'd love to hear from HBS what kind of warship this is. Like the rest of the art I feel it's spot on the feel of Battletech...only I can't for the life of me figure out what it is. I think it *may* be a Congress, with a smaller chance of it being a Sovetskii Soyuz or a Texas.

Any thoughts?
 

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At a guess it is a Congress. The Texas design doesn't quite fit and the Sovetskii Soyuz doesn't either.
 

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Put me down as a +1 for Congress, although I warn you -I have been known to be wrong :D
 

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@Rørik Þrumsålr , this question had come up on HBS's Legacy forum. As I recall it, HBS offered that the ship was of their own design and not a previous;y "named" Class.
 

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And it isn't the ship we salvage to build the Argo, is it PH :p ;)
 

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And it isn't the ship we salvage to build the Argo, is it PH :p ;)
Hmm... now that you mention it, that front-end once it is severed from the drive section... : )
 

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Hmm... now that you mention it, that front-end once it is severed from the drive section... : )
Don't make us come over there and invoke the name of Kiva! :D
 

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Don't make us come over there and invoke the name of Kiva! :D
Then I'll need to invoke the name of Eck and we'll really have a situation! : )
 

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I want to see that one immortalized.
The very nature in which we see that ship reminds me of a book I had once that was historical battles summed up in as few words as possible. On the 480BCE Battle of Themropylae it stated "The Spartans faced the Persian Immortals, and proved they weren't"
 

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congress.PNG
texas.PNG

From the Original 2750 Technical read out. For comparison use......
 

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But a Pinto only has one docking collar.

True...but again by the shape of the ship, the top fins, 3 engines, etc.

It looks visually as a Pinto....


Texas only has 2 engines, in TRO: 2750, but I believe those designs arent canon anymore

Congress. possibly..but it has only 2 collars...and again, Im not sure the 2750 are canon.

Most likely its a HBS kitbash of a couple different warships...

A possible way to find out however is to check which warships were lost in the New Vandenberg Rebellion...especially the earliest losses. The video implies, that this is one of the first warships lost.
 

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Don't forget that there is also a bit of artistic license in the picture.
 

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View attachment 360499 But this is the current canon Congress

That would be based on the Congress shown in the Clan section of TRO3057:
Congress-c.gif


There is a depiction of a Congress in Historical: Liberation of Terra II, published 2013:
Congress_Task_Force_Leonidas.jpg


So I doubt things have been "de-canonised". As far as I'm aware only a very few things from the older games are no longer considered canon.
I rather think it's a large amount of artistic license (personally I hate the design used for the model)

Anyway, we had it from the horses mouth, that the HBS designers made it up (I had forgotten that part until our esteemed colleague @Prussian Havoc pointed it out)


A possible way to find out however is to check which warships were lost in the New Vandenberg Rebellion...especially the earliest losses. The video implies, that this is one of the first warships lost.

Maybe, but it could have been made up just for this video, like HBS claim ;)
 

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A possible way to find out however is to check which warships were lost in the New Vandenberg Rebellion...especially the earliest losses. The video implies, that this is one of the first warships lost.

Got this from Sarna :
During the first month of the uprising, suicide attacks were the primary method of attack for the Periphery rebels; one of the most infamous occurred when the battleship SLS Nebraska was destroyed when a fuel-laden cargo ship detonated inside her cargo hold

More details on the SLS Nebraska can be found here - it was a Texas Class ship.