Scourge Fleet

Parasitic dominators, defilers, and despoilers... the Scourge are the apex predator of the galaxy, and they have the ships to prove it.

Behold thy Beauty

My Scourge fleet utilizes a great deal of color-changing paints, with various patterns designed to help identify the type and role of a given ship.

Cruisers

While I find the majority of standard Scourge Cruisers, Light Cruisers, and Heavy Cruisers to be lack-luster... the carriers and troopships are necessities that you always need and the close combat variants are certainly playable.

The Heavy Cruisers were given interesting prows that I expanded upon. I gave the Raiju upside down sweeping wings for a spiky look.

To differentiate my Chimera troopships I gave them mandibles coming forward from their troop "maws".

I'm quite happy with how my Hydra carriers came out, they make great use of a copper/red color changing blend at their fronts and their bays, a feature I copy for a few other ships. Additionally, I modeled them with additional "horns" using Harpy frigate wings.

The rarely used Ifrits are seen here... they are painted the same, but lighting and angle determines their colors.

The Manticore battlecruiser uses a warmer mix of copper and cyan to differentiate itself from it's peers. Devil fins applied to it's sides give it a barbed appearance.

Here we see a Wyvern travelling with a Basilisk battlecruiser. The Basilisk is a superb vessel, and I gave it a pair of evil looking devil horns and extra fins at the rear.

Another closer look at the Basilisk and it's many occulus rays.

Destroyers and Monitors

I'm a big fan of the Scourge Destroyers, especially the Revenant... but I had some trouble modeling them, and ultimately, I ended up with two sets of three Destroyers that are intended to be Revenants and Succubus, but may not quite appear as such to others.

Three Revenants, though I modeled one with the wrong "head".

As you an see, the Revenant's bright copper red fins can almost appear pink in the right lighting.

For these Succubus Destroyers, I decided I wanted them to be playable also as Incubus, and to have some special defining feature. I sacrificed some additional battlecruiser and battleship engine fins to give them a distinct "coy fish" look.

For my Lammasu monitors/barges I decided to utilize spare battlecruiser hulls and combine with unused Destroyer wings, Charybdis weapons, and two whole Frigate hulls. An expensive (parts wise) conversion project to do, but I think the unique look and bulky result were well worth the investment.

Frigates

Scourge Frigates are incredibly... they are fast, sneaky, and can do a surprising amount of damage if used properly. The real star of the show is the Djinn, which quite possibly represents the greatest close combat weapon in the game.

The relatively simply and purple Gargoyle paint scheme downplays their importance to any fleet.

Flocks of Gargoyles are a common sight in our DFC battles.

Scylla represent a determined opposition.

The deadly Charybdis prepare to pulverize a city and it's inhabitants.

A pack of Djinn are a existential threat to any nearby foe.

The Harpy is a much maligned ship, and for good reason, it is one of the worst performing Scourge ships and I generally use them for Nickar Corvette stand-ins.

Battleship and the Reversible Dreadnought

Scourge Battleships are "fine" and no better or worse than any other factions in my opinion, whereas their Dreadnoughts are superb and surprisingly stealthy. If you are on a budget... I'd actually forgo the Battleships entirely and get yourself a singular Dreadnought.

My battleship was enormously satisfying to paint, and I made sure to utilize extra bits to help him stand out in a crowd. Combined with some red markings I think he makes a bright addition to the fleet.

I am always aiming to make my models stand out and be a little unique, and that is why I chose to use so many varieties of color changing paints in my Scourge fleet, and why, I often modify the ship hulls with slight additions. In the case of the Scourge Dreadnought however, I truly outdid myself...

Because I am certain, that I am the first to make my Dreadnought "reversible", with one paint scheme and hull variant on top and another on the bottom. This required a great deal of planning and adjustments to the model, but it was incredibly fun and I think the results speak for themselves... with the Nosferatu in my tried and true blue and red, and my Cthulhu in a newer purple/green and cyan mixture. I also further defined my Dreadnought by placing two of the large tendrils at the side of the head, creating an even more imposing and wider profile than a traditional Dreadnought.

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