Slaanesh 1.5 (Gold) - 11 March 2002

I produced my first Shipset using Doga L2 in February 2002, and edited them for more diversity / colors through the first of March 02 with feed back from John Beech of Universal Shipyards.  

Ship Design Notes:  Although the ship styles look rather organic in nature at first blush, the symbolic nature of the disk and crescent of Slaanesh (from the Games Workshop Warhammer series of games) is the primary theme of the shipset.  The Escort and small fighter are the best examples of this shape.   I added significantly distinguishing shapes and colors to help differentiate the ships after evaluation of the original set. The eventual result was the somewhat bug-like ships in the end, but the circle and crescent theme is still there.

AI Design Notes:  Basically, the Slaanesh are one of those "locust" races.  Completley focused on their own concept of warfare as a means to obtain sacrifical slaves, they should not attempt to conquer, only destroy planets and ships (approximating thier sacking of the planets and removing the population in chains).  They organize around their sacred number of 6, so early game fleets should only be 6 strong, later you will see groups of 36 ships.  These guys love combat and fighting to obtain more slaves, so oddly enough they will be pleased to help you attack others!  But don't ask them to stay their hand once they begin...

Enjoy!

-Jake Jacobsen (AKA Emperor's Child)
jjacobsen@osec.com

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History of Distributed changes:

1.43 Changes:

Re-organized the point defense research so it occurs earlier.
Added a few more Design Names.
Changed missile research so it occurs earlier.
Re-organized wep platform weapons so missiles are taken as primary and guns as secondary.
Removed two ship designs that apparently were causing the AI problems.
Reorganized the vehicle construction list to play better in the early game.
Re-aligned some racial traits more in line with description (changed .emp files too)

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1.5 Changes: 
Modified all AI files for Gold
Removed Missile research and  most wep platform defenses in favor of mine-based defenses
Slightly changed the Battleship pic (removed one of the turrets for better visual effect)
Slightly changed the Frigate pic (reconfigured for better looks at small size)





