Excerpt from the last stable update's patchnotes: "Impact damage can now travel between constructs" There is no longer such a thing as overkill with thump damage.
Hey! Glad you liked Sovereign! (Yes, I named her in direct reference to Mass Effect). A key thing to note is that while she has some REALLY thick armour, it is only really on her bow, underside, and broadsides, as as you could guess from her underslung turret, she was primarily designed for anti-ship work. Your space-lasers basically bypassed most of her armour and only had to contend with 1-2m of HA, as opposed to the 10-12m of HA, if not more, that is present in those aforementioned better armoured areas.
Also: I think you should call it Vulture. It's got that dark, sorta boney aesthetic and you just sit high in the sky picking on enemies that toil beneathe you, normally while they're already in combat
From the depths is a series i wish to see continued in the future - despite owning FTD this is the only way i can EXPERIENCE it since its a bit too difficult for my brain to process.
I agree, watching someone who is good at it is entertaining and helps with playing the game yourself. I find it difficult to make anything look good or function, the only vehicles I can make well are thrustercraft and airships.
facts, i love the game, but it's way too hard an in depth. if the learning curve wasn't a literal wall i would probably love it. honestly what it needs a terratech-style easy mode so that us lovely potato heads can learn dummed down versions of the mechanics, and then slowly experience more and more complicated stuff as our ships get bigger
@@angeloid_ I kinda agree that it is difficult but I think that the difficulty adds more freedom, unfortunately this comes with the price of am insane amount of learno.
Hello lathrix, the scarlet dawn craft you have encountered is the andromeda, in which you dragged to the depths of hell last season :p. It features two ~300m long particle cannons and plenty of missiles. it’s a very glass cannon type craft, lots of bark but no bite. Hope to see you encounter more SD craft in the future :)
I feel like they've drastically improved the spawning algorithm, because you seem to be getting much more interesting fights with a more diverse list of enemies this season. So far, it's been fantastic to watch.
I'm not sure it looks like a plane anymore... but all that matter are the big booms. As for the name, I say Agorak. It's the name of Constantin Von Carstein undead dragon.
Love how this space monster is starting to turn out the atheistic is awesome! I'm no FTD pro but might I recommend a depth-charge/orbitally dropped torpedo weapon? Just for finishing of submerged enemies rather then using all that energy trying to pen them through the water. Eitherway that was some damn fine carna-... Liberation of lives from tyranny.
Kinda similar to one of my suggestions: A huge missile focusing solely on impact damage (with a thumper head, naturally) could be a pretty dangerous weapon, like a "rod from god." No fuel, no thrust, just a few fins, remote guidance + fin aiming stuff, and reinforced bodies for all the rest.
@@zarnox3071 I personally prefer the idea of creating a really heavy flier out of the atmosphere, adding enough downward thrust and harpoons to pull ships into orbit, releasing the harpoons and manoeuvring to a position where they just can't attack you, then slowly striping it to pieces.
One issue you have with your LAMS is your using one system for defense and offense so if you are attacking you have no energy to spend on defense as it still takes time to charge as well as the system only being capable of one task at a time so laser turret or LAMS not both at the same time
Hey Lathrix, you should try instruments of destruction. It looks like a really fun game and I know you like building stuff and destroying other stuff with the stuff you built. ;)
Reminds me of the orbital Ion cannon from command and conquer a little bit. Also the particle shot sorta looks like a lightning strike with how wobbly it is and how you're always above them
For the almost abundant enemies and constant combat i would suggest having some mildly effective munitions to both deal with enemies who have smoke defense and when your energy is low, maybe a semi auto but high mm advanced cannon or something like that but as always, I love your videos and I love your Warhammer references, you're one of my favorite people to watch, so i do thank you for making such amazing content
Lathland you seem like a genuinely good guy. I’ve been watching you for the past couple years(notably I took breaks) but you have always been a role model for me which is weird to say but is true.
I'm really loving this series, been here since season 1 of ftd and your the entire reason I bought the game twice. If possible I would love to see you do a aircraft run on the land only map
One thing I’m imagining rn is a squadron of these being sent deep in enemy territory to sabotage or destroy enemy infrastructure or factories and important targets. Ether way this looks amazing
Have you thought about a lower deck observation area? A bit dangerous, but being able to sit right next to the belly guns as they fire would look pretty sweet.
Name ideas: The Witherer, A Lil Slice O Death, I'mma Firing My Laser, Potato Chip. Also, I love the video! Your From The Depths videos are always my favorite!
Honestly lathrix, your ships look awesome to me as i think your sci-fi theming of ship design is more interesting than modern day ships to look at, that said to me the ship seriously looks like a spider who took all its legs and pointed them straight forward to fly through the air spraying its web down at enemies below, so for a name design.. why not just a really cool spider name? like the redback, black widow, or even the goliath birdeater as you are really good at taking out flyers coming for you. love your content dude.
Thanks! I AM A LOVELY POTATO! And y'know what? YOU ARE TOO! Also I I think that you should go slaanesh and call it the damsel fly! Besides, that propulsion would go quite well with the blue hues of slaanesh Loved the video, man!
Hey lathrix, I've suggested this twice already in you past two videos, but I have a series/challenge suggestion for airships: conquer the skies. You stay round about within your starting territory (how much is up to your discretion), and get most of your income from capturing and scrapping ships. Should be hard, but fun, and make sure to start with a boarding tech (I think one of the heraldry symbols guarantees some sort of boarding tech.)
2:00 Accidental Intrepid? "Set a course, bearing 155, mark 270, warp factor 8." "Captain, that would propel us directly into the sea. Also, this is an orbital plane, not a starship."
Ya know? I think it looks like an evil crustacean without the wings, but also kinda like the spacefaring version of an A10 Thunderbolt....the Thundercrab :D
The flat top would make it a really fun carrier. Please add one or two heavy carpet Bombers to it. It would be absolutely fun to watch hell being unleashed from above
Lath if you haven’t already, check out “Avorion” on steam. There are some very significant similar aspects between FtD and Avorion. The RTS part of it is a bit more pronounced, especially in the late game, but in the early game it’s pretty scarce. It’s all in space, and the building aspect is a bit less in depth. Super fun game.
Name: Skewer Both due to the shape of the parts on the side of the ship, and the fact that all your weapons can just punch a hole straight through a target.
Lathrix, I want to ask you to create little melee fightercraft that your main ship sends out, and they fire a particle cannon when the target is too far away. A tiny one.
it would be pretty cool if a spaceship bombarding with its top weapons directly, broadsiding the enemy from space. My imagination is running wild for this game
Your lasers desperately need a power regulator so you maintain appropriate damage even at low charge. It also lets you turn them down to reduce overkill. And you desperately need more generation capacity. I'm glad you tried the sniper laser. Its much more reasonable when properly tuned. A regulator allows full damage at partial charge which increases dps over all, assuming enough power is available/the pumps and engines can keep up.
Name it the LLN Thunder Bird. LLN means LathLandNavy and it’s Thunder Bird because 1 it sounds cool and 2 it flys and rains down lasers like a thunder storm
*@Lathland* give the laser system an AI with random-block targeting. Or if(/how?) possible, maybe you can breadboard(?) it so the random targets have a higher chance of being selected towards the center of the craft? So it more likely cores out the craft, than just slightly charring random blocks.
4:08 It straight up looks like a gun. Like, You cant make it look more like a gun without adding a trigger. It looks like a particle Cannon or a Shotgun, or a Particle Shotcannon. The back even looks like the stock.
You know what I think you should do? Try building FTD versions of Star Wars or alike space fantasies spaceships, like Venator class star destroyers or lukrahulk class droid control ship, would love to see your take on these spaceships! :D
Need bigger pods and a bit more ion thrusters up front. Then you should have some fun. Also. A 4k sustainable lams system zaps nearly any medium missile out of the sky and mostly deletes rail shots and huge missiles
It'd be amazing if you could program the laser to do a "stroke", so rather than merely dumping all that power into a hole you can gouge out a full line
maybe because it just came out but this video isn’t on your channel, just in my subscription page🤷🏼♂️ Love ur channel and can’t wait to see more in the future!
Gald to see you back into From the depths dude XD. Have you thought about doing a player submitted craft campain, I only ask as I have two craft that people on the FTD discord have told me look very Lathrixian.... You have have become a build type in FTD XD
Is it possible to have a seating area on a turret? You could have a sort of glass bubble on a turret so you can always see wherever you need to simply by aiming at it. Think weapon systems of the Millenium Falcon from Star Wars (definitely visible in the newest trilogy)
A huge missile focusing solely on impact damage (with a thumper head, naturally) could be a pretty dangerous weapon, like a "rod from god." No fuel, no thrust, just a few fins, remote guidance + fin aiming stuff, and reinforced bodies for all the rest.
I personally like the idea of at some point, creating a truly massive space craft, chucking a bunch of harpoons on it, and just lifting ships into orbit, then going underneath them and picking them off from below.
Loving the new form of the ship! It kind of feels like a blend of Sith and UNSC ascetics. Lathrixian Space Command The Dying of the Day/Into the Dark as name suggestions
I have always wondered, what do you think the effectiveness of having three advanced cannons that shoot one after another in the order of (piercing, explosive, then maybe emp?). My thought was that the piercing would open a nice hole for the explosive to get in deep, then the third shot of emp would be able to spread past the now damaged emp protection. Obviously going all out on one might be more efficient, but I do think it would atleast be neat to see a combo build like this.
There's a Whiteflayer airship Last Rite that does this. It's pretty fun to spawn it and see what it does. Sufficiently fast craft can kite it but it's deadly to those that can't get away fast enough.
maybe of your next campaign you should make most or all of you ships in the style of the tyranids and they can be named after the different types of tyranids. just a thought.
Being called a lovely potato is something i don't know i needed to hear but thank you lathrix
I agree!
I heard that and instantly liked the video lol
Especially since potatoes are the best.
Probably the cheapest and most available Super-Food out there.
Agreed, oddly needed it myself as well
It instantly increased my happiness. I mean, potatoes are already lovely, so a lovely potato is like lovely squared, or even double lovely!
Excerpt from the last stable update's patchnotes:
"Impact damage can now travel between constructs"
There is no longer such a thing as overkill with thump damage.
I love how stupidly thump damage works once you have a stupidly high amount. You just bonk things and they vapourise.
Hey! Glad you liked Sovereign! (Yes, I named her in direct reference to Mass Effect). A key thing to note is that while she has some REALLY thick armour, it is only really on her bow, underside, and broadsides, as as you could guess from her underslung turret, she was primarily designed for anti-ship work. Your space-lasers basically bypassed most of her armour and only had to contend with 1-2m of HA, as opposed to the 10-12m of HA, if not more, that is present in those aforementioned better armoured areas.
She's beautiful
people are out there slapping 12 meters of HA onto their craft when I'm debating the fifth layer of metal on the armor belt lmao
also her laser defences came on after the first shot
Your design is absolutely amazing! It is just so different from the planes you see normally.
Sovereign? Isn't the real name Nazara? 😆
Holy moly. That was a massive redesign.
It's definitely a Lathrix craft.
Also: I think you should call it Vulture. It's got that dark, sorta boney aesthetic and you just sit high in the sky picking on enemies that toil beneathe you, normally while they're already in combat
vulture 2*
@@aerbon Vulture II
From the depths is a series i wish to see continued in the future - despite owning FTD this is the only way i can EXPERIENCE it since its a bit too difficult for my brain to process.
I agree, watching someone who is good at it is entertaining and helps with playing the game yourself. I find it difficult to make anything look good or function, the only vehicles I can make well are thrustercraft and airships.
facts, i love the game, but it's way too hard an in depth. if the learning curve wasn't a literal wall i would probably love it.
honestly what it needs a terratech-style easy mode so that us lovely potato heads can learn dummed down versions of the mechanics, and then slowly experience more and more complicated stuff as our ships get bigger
@@angeloid_ I kinda agree that it is difficult but I think that the difficulty adds more freedom, unfortunately this comes with the price of am insane amount of learno.
It's even more difficult for my _computer_ to process...
Hello lathrix, the scarlet dawn craft you have encountered is the andromeda, in which you dragged to the depths of hell last season :p. It features two ~300m long particle cannons and plenty of missiles. it’s a very glass cannon type craft, lots of bark but no bite. Hope to see you encounter more SD craft in the future :)
I think the metaphor here would be "lots of bite no bark" this time :p
@@polaska_tyu the metaphor just doesn't apply at all, the "bark" part refers to how intimidating something seems, not how durable it is
@@patrickhector Lots of bark, lots of bite, but is about as tough as a Chihouhua.
I feel like The Orion is a good name, a space bound hunter who wields a bow of starlight, fitting don'tcha think?
From the depths is a series i wish to see continued in the future.
I feel like they've drastically improved the spawning algorithm, because you seem to be getting much more interesting fights with a more diverse list of enemies this season. So far, it's been fantastic to watch.
I'm not sure it looks like a plane anymore... but all that matter are the big booms.
As for the name, I say Agorak. It's the name of Constantin Von Carstein undead dragon.
I like how they did that with the spin blocks. (Proceeds to glass half the ship)
I’ve been rewatching some of Lath’s older videos and I never realized how much quicker he talks nowadays compared to a few years ago. Crazy stuff
Love how this space monster is starting to turn out the atheistic is awesome! I'm no FTD pro but might I recommend a depth-charge/orbitally dropped torpedo weapon? Just for finishing of submerged enemies rather then using all that energy trying to pen them through the water. Eitherway that was some damn fine carna-... Liberation of lives from tyranny.
I feel like it would take too long to drop from orbit
Prob better to do as a missle
Kinda similar to one of my suggestions:
A huge missile focusing solely on impact damage (with a thumper head, naturally) could be a pretty dangerous weapon, like a "rod from god."
No fuel, no thrust, just a few fins, remote guidance + fin aiming stuff, and reinforced bodies for all the rest.
@@zarnox3071 I personally prefer the idea of creating a really heavy flier out of the atmosphere, adding enough downward thrust and harpoons to pull ships into orbit, releasing the harpoons and manoeuvring to a position where they just can't attack you, then slowly striping it to pieces.
A torpedo bomb would be fun but a little hard as it would be difficult to make them last long enough to actually hit.
The particle cannon coloured red REALLY makes it look like the craft has intestines...
i thought brain personally
@@erubianwarlord8208 it's a Lath build, they're the same thing
One issue you have with your LAMS is your using one system for defense and offense so if you are attacking you have no energy to spend on defense as it still takes time to charge as well as the system only being capable of one task at a time so laser turret or LAMS not both at the same time
2:15 when you took off the wings it kind of looked like a custom Star Wars Rebellion Y-Wing.
The ship really reminds me of the capital ships from Star Trek. Maybe its those two, big, kinda detached engines.
“I won’t redesign it for a while”
2 episodes later
I will totally admit, from just my first glance at the thumbnail showing the ship, I thought this was Stellaris. 😂 Very nice spacecraft.
Hey Lathrix, you should try instruments of destruction. It looks like a really fun game and I know you like building stuff and destroying other stuff with the stuff you built. ;)
Reminds me of the orbital Ion cannon from command and conquer a little bit. Also the particle shot sorta looks like a lightning strike with how wobbly it is and how you're always above them
For the almost abundant enemies and constant combat i would suggest having some mildly effective munitions to both deal with enemies who have smoke defense and when your energy is low, maybe a semi auto but high mm advanced cannon or something like that but as always, I love your videos and I love your Warhammer references, you're one of my favorite people to watch, so i do thank you for making such amazing content
Lathland you seem like a genuinely good guy. I’ve been watching you for the past couple years(notably I took breaks) but you have always been a role model for me which is weird to say but is true.
Since season two of neter I believe
"Greetings you lovely potatoes" is just about the truest and best intro line ever created.
I'm really loving this series, been here since season 1 of ftd and your the entire reason I bought the game twice. If possible I would love to see you do a aircraft run on the land only map
Same here, I didn't know about this until I watched Lathland, why did you buy it twice?
@@snakeofminthumbugs330 lost my old account that had it on there before so I rebought it
@@JusJoshinYuh Oh, I see. That is annoying.
One thing I’m imagining rn is a squadron of these being sent deep in enemy territory to sabotage or destroy enemy infrastructure or factories and important targets.
Ether way this looks amazing
That is clearly the Lathrixian Vessel of the Line (LVL) Prometheus bringing the gift of fire to lesser beings.
Potatoes and deadly spacecraft! Two of my favorite things within 10 seconds, amazing
Have you thought about a lower deck observation area? A bit dangerous, but being able to sit right next to the belly guns as they fire would look pretty sweet.
Name ideas: The Witherer, A Lil Slice O Death, I'mma Firing My Laser, Potato Chip.
Also, I love the video! Your From The Depths videos are always my favorite!
martincitopants: PISS LASER
FTD community: I'll buy your entire stock
Honestly lathrix, your ships look awesome to me as i think your sci-fi theming of ship design is more interesting than modern day ships to look at, that said to me the ship seriously looks like a spider who took all its legs and pointed them straight forward to fly through the air spraying its web down at enemies below, so for a name design.. why not just a really cool spider name? like the redback, black widow, or even the goliath birdeater as you are really good at taking out flyers coming for you. love your content dude.
Thanks! I AM A LOVELY POTATO! And y'know what? YOU ARE TOO!
Also I I think that you should go slaanesh and call it the damsel fly! Besides, that propulsion would go quite well with the blue hues of slaanesh
Loved the video, man!
That final design is absolutely gorgeous looking!
Hey Lathrix! Try adding wings & styling them like solar panels on a satellite!
Hey lathrix, I've suggested this twice already in you past two videos, but I have a series/challenge suggestion for airships: conquer the skies. You stay round about within your starting territory (how much is up to your discretion), and get most of your income from capturing and scrapping ships. Should be hard, but fun, and make sure to start with a boarding tech (I think one of the heraldry symbols guarantees some sort of boarding tech.)
As far as I know you can’t win without capturing enemy territoey
I've got that covered in the old comments, and a bit of expansion is allowed, at lath's discretion.
Without the wings it looks like a ship from the United Federation of Planets. I like it.
Real cool design this one, Nice to see some more futuristic forms
2:00 Accidental Intrepid?
"Set a course, bearing 155, mark 270, warp factor 8."
"Captain, that would propel us directly into the sea. Also, this is an orbital plane, not a starship."
Don't overclock your PAC, you really don't need that extra power on a 1000-length.
But why not?
@@gilbertley1309 Way more power cost, max overclock roughly halves your efficiency.
Ya know? I think it looks like an evil crustacean without the wings, but also kinda like the spacefaring version of an A10 Thunderbolt....the Thundercrab :D
The flat top would make it a really fun carrier. Please add one or two heavy carpet Bombers to it. It would be absolutely fun to watch hell being unleashed from above
Lath if you haven’t already, check out “Avorion” on steam. There are some very significant similar aspects between FtD and Avorion. The RTS part of it is a bit more pronounced, especially in the late game, but in the early game it’s pretty scarce. It’s all in space, and the building aspect is a bit less in depth. Super fun game.
A sail boat in space would absolutely hilarious
I am a big fan of how the engine pods look
its been years since i last stumbled upon your channel, glad im back
Name: Skewer
Both due to the shape of the parts on the side of the ship, and the fact that all your weapons can just punch a hole straight through a target.
Saw the thumbnail and thought it was avorion for a sec. Talk about nostalgia.
Yay more FTD!! Thank you Lathrix! More please!!
Without the wings the craft looks like something out of star trek
I'd say to call it the Scarab(sticking with the insect theme of Dragonfly), or Vulture II(as The Dovah's Den suggested).
i really love the new paint job you've used it looks really cool and evil xD
I love these from the depths videos, keep em coming.
Lathrix, I want to ask you to create little melee fightercraft that your main ship sends out, and they fire a particle cannon when the target is too far away. A tiny one.
i love how you say GrEeTiNgS mY fElLoW pOtAtOeS
it would be pretty cool if a spaceship bombarding with its top weapons directly, broadsiding the enemy from space. My imagination is running wild for this game
0:00 HAHahaHaoughHAAAAAAAaaaaaa.......what a fun change of pace
Your lasers desperately need a power regulator so you maintain appropriate damage even at low charge. It also lets you turn them down to reduce overkill. And you desperately need more generation capacity.
I'm glad you tried the sniper laser. Its much more reasonable when properly tuned. A regulator allows full damage at partial charge which increases dps over all, assuming enough power is available/the pumps and engines can keep up.
Love that black/white laser. It's very "good guy" compared to normal red lasers.
lathrix "oh look how they did that with the spin blocks" *immediately enacts laser doom on said spinny thing*
I could see that thing without it's wings carrying some traitor legion Astartes.
I have been called a potato.
This was not what I expected.
damn that PAC hits hard, the perfect weapon of destruction!
For the emperor! For the Khorne flakes! *For the algorithm!!*
Of course it looks like a good guy.
We are the good guys
Name it the LLN Thunder Bird. LLN means LathLandNavy and it’s Thunder Bird because 1 it sounds cool and 2 it flys and rains down lasers like a thunder storm
*@Lathland*
give the laser system an AI with random-block targeting.
Or if(/how?) possible, maybe you can breadboard(?) it so the random targets have a higher chance of being selected towards the center of the craft?
So it more likely cores out the craft, than just slightly charring random blocks.
Please continue to call us lovely potatoes. I don't know what it is but it made me really happy lol
4:08 It straight up looks like a gun. Like, You cant make it look more like a gun without adding a trigger. It looks like a particle Cannon or a Shotgun, or a Particle Shotcannon. The back even looks like the stock.
But of course, it's a gunship
*looks away from massive hole “on the upside I am finally figuring out the shape”
You know what I think you should do? Try building FTD versions of Star Wars or alike space fantasies spaceships, like Venator class star destroyers or lukrahulk class droid control ship, would love to see your take on these spaceships! :D
I'd love to see some Star Trek aesthetic in the future. I think it would go well with the theme.
Need bigger pods and a bit more ion thrusters up front. Then you should have some fun. Also. A 4k sustainable lams system zaps nearly any medium missile out of the sky and mostly deletes rail shots and huge missiles
It'd be amazing if you could program the laser to do a "stroke", so rather than merely dumping all that power into a hole you can gouge out a full line
Thunderhawk, since bird of prey + particle cannon sound affect.
being called a potato isn't something I expected to be called today along with the rest of us XD!
Lathrix: that’s pretty neat
Blow it up
maybe because it just came out but this video isn’t on your channel, just in my subscription page🤷🏼♂️
Love ur channel and can’t wait to see more in the future!
We love you lathrix! Allways hyped for FTD, I just dropped some important work I was doing to watch! (yah responsibility isnt my strong point)
We are potats:)
23:32 you hooked LAMS to your main laser system, that means if you fired your laser the LAMS will be less powerful.
Gald to see you back into From the depths dude XD.
Have you thought about doing a player submitted craft campain, I only ask as I have two craft that people on the FTD discord have told me look very Lathrixian....
You have have become a build type in FTD XD
You definitely need to make some imperial cruisers, getting big lance strike vibes from the lasers.
Bring back the void beams!
Other than that, NICE spacecraft.
Thanks for the content!
8:02 this reminds me of the Y-wing from Star Wars idk why
Today I am a potato apparantly.
Screw it, I got corona so i’ll gladly be a couch potato for even a pinch of quality entertainment
Is it possible to have a seating area on a turret? You could have a sort of glass bubble on a turret so you can always see wherever you need to simply by aiming at it. Think weapon systems of the Millenium Falcon from Star Wars (definitely visible in the newest trilogy)
How pokey the front looks makes me think Pitchfork.
I don't know if we're gonna see this but a good name for your ship on my perspective would be dark Excalibur You'll be smiting your foes from space
A huge missile focusing solely on impact damage (with a thumper head, naturally) could be a pretty dangerous weapon, like a "rod from god."
No fuel, no thrust, just a few fins, remote guidance + fin aiming stuff, and reinforced bodies for all the rest.
I personally like the idea of at some point, creating a truly massive space craft, chucking a bunch of harpoons on it, and just lifting ships into orbit, then going underneath them and picking them off from below.
@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 You could have a kind of ring craft and the enemies get launched through the hole
finally. he has left my oceans. i can end reality in peace.
Call it the Gladius. Kinda looks like a short sword.
My only complaint about this episode was the lack of the finished Particle Cannon firing
Loving the new form of the ship! It kind of feels like a blend of Sith and UNSC ascetics. Lathrixian Space Command The Dying of the Day/Into the Dark as name suggestions
It gives me Mass Effect vibes, I love it.
I have always wondered, what do you think the effectiveness of having three advanced cannons that shoot one after another in the order of (piercing, explosive, then maybe emp?). My thought was that the piercing would open a nice hole for the explosive to get in deep, then the third shot of emp would be able to spread past the now damaged emp protection. Obviously going all out on one might be more efficient, but I do think it would atleast be neat to see a combo build like this.
"Greetings you lovely potatoes"
My fat ass on the couch - you know it!
So question; Would it be possible to grab a sea vessel from space, and literally drag it up to space? And would such a vessel actually be useful?
There's a Whiteflayer airship Last Rite that does this. It's pretty fun to spawn it and see what it does. Sufficiently fast craft can kite it but it's deadly to those that can't get away fast enough.
maybe of your next campaign you should make most or all of you ships in the style of the tyranids and they can be named after the different types of tyranids.
just a thought.
Just to add to this idea, Sail boat Tyranids.