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I revisited my P47 bomber variant in a more dieselpunk shape and dusted off the old ai into the new cards https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1916539632


according to the vehicle viewer it's made up 90% weapons systems and has the same firepower of my 55m starting ship costing half of it. of course it explodes violently the moment someone targets it, but still.

I'm working on a resource transport but I can't get the disel-y flying locomotive vibe right https://imgur.com/a/MVqX4r2

getting there


I was going for a more 70s' vibe, but those are just too plain. the 50s' look that you linked works better.

Noice!  For all I was talking about the front of it, you did some cool stuff with the back too.

You've also inspired me to build my own vehicle retro styled hull, although its nowhere near finished (only the front and one out of two turrets is done).  Anyway, this is/will be the Atom Smasher 12000, a warship for the age of the atom:


Sadly I'm only going to have a potato computer for thanksgiving week so it might not be done for a while.

It fires two beams every ten seconds, each doing 20-30k thump damage.  Causes a massive one-time battery drain every time it fires.  For its cost pretty bad DPS but like the particle cannon description implies, there’s no real counter.  Can’t dodge it, smoke doesn’t work, shields do nothing.

I could have set it to pierce but overpenetration becomes a huge problem.  Impact mode doesn’t overpen; I fired it at a duster and it deleted the entire thing, not even a “too damaged” warning or anything.  Effects against larger vehicles are less dramatic.

Pen depth fuse should work for APHE... probably?  I’ve never been clear on how penn depth is calculated.  You could also try an altitude fuse with its min and max altitude set slightly off the target so the shell detonates late.  Or you could do penn depth + timer fuse set late and then have a circular frag explosion... or is it possible to set the frag angle to 180 and shoot backwards?

Thump damage is odd.  On one hand it always hits with a fixed AP and the target benefits from neither armor stacking nor angling. On the other hand the damage spreads out sideways sort of like you’re peeling a potato.  Any block with an AC over half your pen will take reduced damage, so that + the way the damage spreads means you’re generally hitting the most armored parts of the ship.
Thump damage basically aims to destroy the entire enemy ship block by block rather than pierce through it into the vitals.  If you do manage to direct hit a component like an engine or CRAM guts directly, expect it to hit hard.
All this works out to a weapon that deals below average damage reliably.  Different thump sources have different AP values and unfortunately hollow point is the lowest.  I am however deeply curious how railguns interact with hollow point so you should do it anyway and tell me how it goes.

Edit: sorry for wall of text but if you want to use alt or timer fuses mount 90 degree cameras and radar on the turret itself.  You’ll need really good detections.

I updated the airship so it's a little less resource hungry. still very expensive to maintain in campaign, so I'm working on a traditional battleship


I'm having a lot of difficulties building support ship that work well enough to escort the capitals in late game. they either end up too frail so become combat ineffective too fast or they're too weak and their dps barely contributes to the battle.


e: updated again now it's super easy to pilot by hand, after an incident involving a badly spawned enemy fleet, some hazardous landing maneuver and a nearby ship lobbying cram on the area whole