Siege cruiser "Buldozer" and Interceptor Corvette "Scarlet"

[Shuul (OP)]

Hi guys. 
I play my game based on big beam ships and have little investments in missile technology (except warhead). 
So, here is my siege cruiser, designed to work in duo or trio without support fleet to move close to enemy PDCs and bomb them. 

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Buldozer mk2 class Siege Cruiser    53 000 tons     1102 Crew     20509.5 BP      TCS 1060  TH 880  EM 960
 5188 km/s     Armour 20-125     Shields 32-300     Sensors 100/120/0/0     Damage Control Rating 98     PPV 191.18
 Maint Life 4.32 Years     MSP 18865    AFR 288%    IFR 4%    1YR 1627    5YR 24400    Max Repair 1406 MSP
 Intended Deployment Time: 60 months    Flight Crew Berths 0    
Hangar Deck Capacity 2000 tons     Magazine 360    

1100 EP Solid Core AM Drive (5)    Power 1100    Fuel Use 23.8%    Signature 176    Exp 11%
 Fuel Capacity 10 000 000 Litres    Range 142.7 billion km   (318 days at full power)
 Theta R300/240 Shields (8)   Total Fuel Cost  80 Litres per hour  (1 920 per day)
 
Twin 10cm C6 Ultraviolet Laser Turret (6x2)    Range 120 000km     TS: 40000 km/s     Power 6-12     RM 4    ROF 5        3 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1
 Heavy Particle Beam "God's Ray" (6)    Range 640 000km     TS: 10000 km/s     Power 40-6    ROF 35        16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
 CIWS-400 (6x12)    Range 1000 km     TS: 40000 km/s     ROF 5       Base 50% To Hit
 Beam contorl "God's Hand" (2)    Max Range: 1 000 000 km   TS: 15000 km/s     99 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 91 90
 Beam control "Freesbee" (3)    Max Range: 125 000 km   TS: 40000 km/s     92 84 76 68 60 52 44 36 28 20
 Anti-matter Power Plant PB-1 (4)     Total Power Output 128    Armour 0    Exp 5%
 
Size 20 Missile Launcher  (2)    Missile Size 20    Rate of Fire 600
BOMB Fire Control 2 (1)     Range 32.4m km    Resolution 1
Size 20 BOMB (18)  Speed: 200 km/s   End: 805d    Range: 13910.4m km   WH: 95    Size: 20    TH: 0/0/0
 
BLOB-3 missile scanner (1)     GPS 360     Range 216.0m km    MCR 23.5m km    Resolution 1
 EYE-3 Active Search Sensor (1)     GPS 57600     Range 2 732.2m km    Resolution 160
 Thermal Sensor TH2-100 (1)     Sensitivity 100     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  100m km
 EM Detection Sensor mk2 (1)     Sensitivity 120     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  120m km
 
ECCM-2 (2)         ECM 20
What you say?


Also,
Interceptor corvette

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Scarlet class Interceptor Corvette    5 100 tons     155 Crew     3666.2 BP      TCS 102  TH 1200  EM 0
 11764 km/s     Armour 3-26     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 22     PPV 24
 Maint Life 2.12 Years     MSP 899    AFR 104%    IFR 1.4%    1YR 267    5YR 4011    Max Repair 1406 MSP
 Intended Deployment Time: 12 months    Spare Berths 0    

600 EP Solid Core AM Drive (2)    Power 600    Fuel Use 62%    Signature 600    Exp 15%
 Fuel Capacity 1 000 000 Litres    Range 56.9 billion km   (56 days at full power)
 
Heavy Particle Beam "God's Ray" (2)    Range 640 000km     TS: 11764 km/s     Power 40-6    ROF 35        16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
 CIWS-400 (1x12)    Range 1000 km     TS: 40000 km/s     ROF 5       Base 50% To Hit
 Beam contorl "God's Hand" (1)    Max Range: 1 000 000 km   TS: 15000 km/s     99 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 91 90
 Anti-matter Power Plant PB-1 (1)     Total Power Output 32    Armour 0    Exp 5%
 
EYE-2 Active Search Sensor  (1)     GPS 36000     Range 2 160.0m km    Resolution 100
 
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes


As you can see, i prefer self sustaining crafts without the need for large support fleet.   Also using just beam weapons and CIWS helps alot with ammunition problem

[MarcAFK]

It's a bit pointless making a missile with a 13 billion kilometer range but only using a fire control with 32 million km range, also with only 200 km/s speed you shouldn't really have any range to your bomb because it'll take forever to get anywhere.
You'll also need an active sensor near your target 13 billion kilometers away.

[Shuul (OP)]

It seems that you missed missiles name
Its a bomb that should be launched from orbit, so there is no need for better fire control and missile speed, it has so low speed coz of small engine (and thus very effective, that's why it has great range even with minimal fuel supply).   Almost all of its 20 size goes for warhead. 
The point of this ship is to move through heavy fire and drop this bombs from orbit so enemy will not be able to intercept them.  Missile speed is irrelevant in this case.

[Iranon]

Are you using the absolutely maximum engine power multiplier and smallest amount of fuel possible?

It doesn't *have* to be fast for its job, but speed limits the maximum distance it can be fired without an interception chance. Maximum range outside the ability of its fire control is wasted.
Trading range for speed may not change much in practice, but it'd improve performance in edge cases that can actually happen without any disadvantage. Unless a slow lumbering bomb is a roleplaying concern that makes you happy.

I'd give up range and probably a tiny fraction of blastinating ability to make this speedy enough to to be usable against ships, at point-blank range.

[bean]

I have also produced siege cruisers, but mine are armed primarily with mesons for two reasons.  First, the don't suffer from atmospheric attenuation.  Second, most PDCs have enough armor that they take an annoyingly long time to kill with normal weapons.  HPMs are also a good choice, as they tend to disable the PDC faster even than the mesons.

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Baltimore class Heavy Cruiser    32,000 tons     1274 Crew     14374.58 BP      TCS 640  TH 4224  EM 2400
6600 km/s    JR 3-50     Armour 10-89     Shields 80-300     Sensors 80/80/0/0     Damage Control Rating 49     PPV 249.36
Maint Life 2.5 Years     MSP 5334    AFR 431%    IFR 6%    1YR 1185    5YR 17782    Max Repair 822 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 8 months    Flight Crew Berths 21   
Hangar Deck Capacity 500 tons     Magazine 278   

Radiant Dynamics K651-50     Max Ship Size 32550 tons    Distance 50k km     Squadron Size 3
Rocketdyne AMS-1408 (3)    Power 1408    Fuel Use 17.26%    Signature 1408    Exp 11%
Fuel Capacity 1,490,000 Litres    Range 48.6 billion km   (85 days at full power)
DefTech Protector-5 (16)   Total Fuel Cost  160 Litres per hour  (3,840 per day)

APL Meson Cannon, 30 cm, Mk1 Mod0 (12)    Range 800,000km     TS: 12500 km/s     Power 24-12     RM 84    ROF 10        1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Raytheon HPM, 30 cm, Mk1 Mod0 (4)    Range 800,000km     TS: 12500 km/s     Power 24-12     RM 84    ROF 10        1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Turret, Twin, Gauss Cannon, Mk1 Mod0 (6x10)    Range 50,000km     TS: 50000 km/s     Power 0-0     RM 5    ROF 5        1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
GE CIWS Mk1 Mod0 (3x10)    Range 1000 km     TS: 50000 km/s     ROF 5       Base 50% To Hit
Hughes OWG-1 (2)    Max Range: 800,000 km   TS: 12500 km/s     99 98 96 95 94 92 91 90 89 88
Sperry OWG-3 (6)    Max Range: 50,000 km   TS: 50000 km/s     80 60 40 20 0 0 0 0 0 0
Westinghouse RASC-16 (12)     Total Power Output 192    Armour 0    Exp 5%

GMLS Mk1 Mod0 (12)    Missile Size 1    Rate of Fire 5
Sperry OPG-1 (3)     Range 115.2m km    Resolution 1
SVM-1 Striker (100)  Speed: 144,000 km/s   End: 3.6m    Range: 31.1m km   WH: 4    Size: 1    TH: 480/288/144
SIM-2 Phalanx (80)  Speed: 144,000 km/s   End: 3.6m    Range: 31.1m km   WH: 1    Size: 1    TH: 2592/1555/777
SGM-11 Bullpup (40)  Speed: 72,000 km/s   End: 9.5m    Range: 41.1m km   WH: 9    Size: 1    TH: 240/144/72
SDM-32 Dazzler (20)  Speed: 144,200 km/s   End: 3.6m    Range: 31.3m km   WH: 0    Size: 1    TH: 480/288/144

Lockheed Martin OPS-1 (1)     GPS 5600     Range 500.9m km    Resolution 20
Lockheed Martin OPS-4 (1)     GPS 80     Range 32.0m km    Resolution 1
Lockheed Martin OPS-2 (1)     GPS 280     Range 112.0m km    Resolution 1
TI OAR-2 (1)     Sensitivity 80     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  80m km
TI OPR-2 (1)     Sensitivity 80     Detect Sig Strength 1000:  80m km

ECCM-5 (2)         ECM 50

Strike Group
6x D-1 Decoy   Speed: 47500 km/s    Size: 1.6

Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposesAnother important feature is the D-1 decoys.  These are useful for soaking up the AMMs that certain races like to fire at you.  Move into range, and wait for them to stop firing.  Then pull the decoys into the hangar, wait 5 seconds, and deploy them again.  The missiles will lose lock, disappear, and then the whole cycle starts again.  Actually, if you have better ECM than they have ECCM, there will be points where they can fire only on the decoys, and not on the carrier. 

[Brian Neumann]

If you intend for these ships to work together, and to have at least 3 of them for any significant fights, you might want to change the ciws systems for standard gauss cannon and fire control.  They are larger, so there will be fewer of them per ship, but with 3 ships you will have more total point defense available against any given salvo.  Also you can use the standard gauss cannon against enemy ships where the ciws system is purely defensive.

Brian