Here come the Marines.
Man, I love drawing ships almost – ALMOST – as much as I love drawing tanks. This bad boy here is somewhere between the HMS Belfast and the USS Zumwalt. Figure THAT one out!
Anyway, first of the year, so it makes sense to start it all off with a comic, I think. Here’s hoping 2018 is happy, peaceful, and successful for everyone.
All the best, folks. Be careful out there.
Happy New Year! Love the destroyer, especially the reverse-angled bow. I’ve got a GOOD feeling about this. 😀
Thanks! I used to find ships hard to draw but the new generation of naval vessels, especially the Zumwalt class and those interesting ones the Swedish and Dutch are building, are just so fascinating that now I look on it as an enjoyable challenge!
And yeah, the Southern Coalition is definitely on the move!
Happy Nude Deer
And a happy Disrobed Ruminant to you, as well!
Very real looking, very kick ass! I love this.
Thanks, man! I aim for as much “realism” as a comic about multi-thousand-ton superheavy robotic tanks can hope to achieve!
And now CONASUR is really getting into the thick of things! Makes me wonder if the Arab League is gonna drop their isolationism and get in the game as well?
Looking forward to the next chapter to see how this plays out.
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Thanks, man. I’m trying to be as dramatic as I can, as always.
More like a FREMM with World War I styled hulls.
And small patrol boat with ATGMs? Why such strange placement of those?
They’re Lance antiship missile tubes, actually. 😉
Oh, sorry would have thought more PT boat style torp tubes. Alas I have to ask why the little tank smoke grenade launchers on a Destroyer???
You don’t HAVE to ask. But because they look good is why. Plus smokescreens are useful at sea, too.
We both know that they are too small to perform the role of AShM. Not counting the survivability of “platform” on which they are bolted on and overall usefullness. You can do better than that.
Or you tried to go full van Ripper with the design? Becouse even that, you are doing it the wrong way.
I’ll try to do better next time.
The ram bow is cool-looking, but there are good reasons it hasn’t been used in 120 some-odd years!
But you got rid of the tumblehome (in which there are even better reasons it went away, like “won’t self-sink if it rolls in a storm”), so I’ll let that pass. 😉
I did want it to look slightly World War I-y, because that was the only world war they had in this world (for better, and then worse). But yeah, the Suffren-class, the FREMM, the Ticonderoga Class – there’s a lot of design theories at work here. It’s kind of a camel.
Thinking the Zumwalt is more of a test bed to see how many bad ideas we can incorporate into one hull.
Time will tell. I personally think it has an interesting design, but of course I’m not a naval architect. And we’re only building three of them anyway. Good for comics though! 😀
The 2 super power blocks have toppled each other, and the real enemy is making its move.
Kind of frightening how this is mirroring the real world, no?
Well, as Francis Urquhart would say, “You might very well think that, but I couldn’t possibly comment.”
the round thing, on the pedestal, on top of the bridge, looks like a laser turret
It’s an Infrared Interferometer. But that’s a kind of laser I think, so you’re pretty much right! 🙂
What an awesome page 😀
The navies of 6-Commando are pretty cool!
Thanks! For a world where atomic power wasn’t discovered until the 1970s, they did pretty all right in other areas.
Question: How did the alternate navies evolve from that post-WW I to the current state?
You know the guy driving that RHIB is going “YEEEEHAH!”. In Spanish.