Would love to see a video on the vt-49 decimator. Looks like a cool ship.

I mean how often do you see F-15s? Or even police helicopters. He also doesn;t say they don't see TIEs, but that they don't hear them screech overhead. So seeing a TIE going around on repulsors or so far away you can't hear the engine might be common, but having the ion engines going at full combat power is probably pretty rare.

I endorse this headcanon. Let's pretend the Essential Guide to Warfare says this somewhere...

Indeed. Unless you really pissed off the Empire, you likely wouldn't be facing ISDs. Even were IPVs would be insufficient, ships like Carracks, Strike cruisers, Dreadnaughts, Vindicators, GSDs, VSDs and so on would be both more readily available and cheaper to deploy than ISDs.

A Galactic Empire on a budget.

Going by WEG D6 stats, IPV was slightly lighter armored, heavier shielded, faser, more manuoverable, but it's turbolasers were lighter and placed rather to keep multiple light crafts at bay, then exchange broadsides with corvette.

@@antonisauren8998 it must be said that the thing can fire all cannons forward and the warhead launcher could make up for it as well. Warheads are intended as proton torpedoes probably, so the fight is evenly matched

Hey there, I did the concept design and model shown here. I was shooting for an in-between design based on aspects of all the different versions as you mentioned, plus also throwing in elements from the Marauder Corvette and Maul's Scimitar. The pointy EaW nose is definitely something I wanted to get rid of though. 😜 Glad you like the work!

I have a large library of models I've made and my team has made. Using a mix of really high polygon models like Fractals in with other stuff wouldn't look very good, it'd just be a mish-mash of styles and if I tried to stay with solely really high poly assets that severely limits the content I can make. With this series I hope to be able to recreate battles from.the EU with a bunch of different ship types, which means a bunch of different assets. For example making a high poly IPV would turn this video from a project that takes a couple days to one that takes the entire month, which isn't feasible for a couple thousand views.

@@CoreysDatapad Fair explanation. I just tried to sneak some of original Fractal designs in to your show... I lost this battle, but war is not over! 😉

@@Galvars But he already won, pushing most of his designs into legends with Guide to Warfare. As a sworn minimalist, it hurt's me to this day. :P

Those are much bigger (and much more expensive) combat frigates. You can't cover nearly as much space with them for the same cost and crew.

It's a weird setup. In a functional navy, you'd use the IPV as a way to test prospective starship commanders in a less critical post than actually entrusting a larger vessel to a new captain. Although between their role and the way they hold onto their crews it sounds more like they weren't part of the Imperial Navy, even if the Navy could commandeer the things from time to time.

@@boobah5643 Sorry for the late response. Near the end of the Clone Wars, all the various regional defense fleets were nationalized and integrated into the Republic Navy, which of course shortly afterwards became the Imperial Navy. Therefore, these IPVs do indeed belong to the Navy. However, I think that in practice, the regional defense fleets still operated pretty much on their own as they did before the Clone Wars, so that would explain why these crews spend most of their careers on the same ship. I could be wrong, but it would make sense that the well known naval academies like Prefsbelt IV or Anaxes are the super elite academies that only the most promising students (or the ones with the best connections) can attend and those people get to command the "proper" Navy with their star destroyers and stuff, while everyone else who wants to join the Navy can do it in his own sector and only gets to serve in the regional defense forces part of the Navy.

While more of the animated footage is always going to be the goal, the actual time it takes to render the footage is considerable, so setting up longer scenes (even if they're simple) can add hours to the overall time of production. For this one I had to entirely redo and re-render the animation which limited how much footage I was reasonable able to create- the fortyish seconds was about 30 hours of work and rendering as it is. I'd thought the footage of the ship on the holotable was enough to actually show the ship, but apparently not. Thanks for the feedback.

Yeah that's fair. Even maybe not dulling the forefront of the background image when the logo is up would be an improvement.

I put it on the screen when there's no picture or video to block. I talk about a lot of stuff that has limited visual resources, and rendering four full minutes of animation would take several days.

They're not especially cool looking and shows focus on more important things.

@@CoreysDatapad That's what I had suspected

Because every imperial ship has to have some aestetic similarity to an Kuat ISD

I believe the Gozanti would fill this role.

@@NiiRubra Yeah I saw the Gozanti ship flying with the CIS in one episode, but it just seems out of place with the droid army.