Terran Republic Space Fleet

[BjornsonIII (OP)]

Howdy! Recently I started a late-game empire and I've been designing craft over the past few days.  As I have limited time (Re: Ten minutes) I can only post two of my craft right now.  The Edelweiss and the Edelweiss C.  The Edelweiss is my empire's main light fighter, while the C variant serves as an AWAC, light fighter, and picket ship for small convoys.

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Edelweiss class Light Fighter    100 tons     3 Crew     113 BP      TCS 2  TH 100  EM 0
50000 km/s     Armour 3-1     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 0.5
Maint Life 0 Years     MSP 0    AFR 20%    IFR 0.3%    1YR 6    5YR 91    Max Repair 50 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 1 months    Spare Berths 2   

Genudine Dynamics 100-1-Series (1)    Power 100    Fuel Use 112.01%    Signature 100    Exp 20%
Fuel Capacity 5 000 Litres    Range 8.0 billion km   (44 hours at full power)

Archeron Limited 125MM TGC-6/8 (1x8)    Range 50 000km     TS: 50000 km/s     Accuracy Modifier 8%     RM 6    ROF 5        1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Mader Heavy Industries Fire Control S00.1 25-12500 (FTR) (1)    Max Range: 50 000 km   TS: 50000 km/s     80 60 40 20 0 0 0 0 0 0

This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and maintenance purposes


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Edelweiss C class Early Warning Craft    110 tons     3 Crew     133 BP      TCS 2.2  TH 100  EM 0
45454 km/s     Armour 3-2     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 0.5
Maint Life 0 Years     MSP 0    AFR 22%    IFR 0.3%    1YR 4    5YR 64    Max Repair 50 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 1 months    Spare Berths 2   

Genudine Dynamics 100-1-Series (1)    Power 100    Fuel Use 112.01%    Signature 100    Exp 20%
Fuel Capacity 5 000 Litres    Range 7.3 billion km   (44 hours at full power)

Archeron Limited 125MM TGC-6/8 (1x8)    Range 50 000km     TS: 45454 km/s     Accuracy Modifier 8%     RM 6    ROF 5        1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Mader Heavy Industries Fire Control S00.1 25-12500 (FTR) (1)    Max Range: 50 000 km   TS: 50000 km/s     80 60 40 20 0 0 0 0 0 0

Martin and Genudine ASR-50/1 (1)     GPS 400     Range 22.6m km    Resolution 50
Martin Electronics MSR-1 (1)     GPS 8     Range 3.2m km    MCR 349k km    Resolution 1

This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and maintenance purposes

I am still, rather unfortunately, new to the game.  Any advice, tips, and tricks would be nice right about now.  Any criticism on the Edelweiss would also be appreciated. 

[Erik L]

ECM will hose your fire controls badly.

And if the C goes pop, your others won't be able to see anything to shoot.

[BjornsonIII (OP)]

ECM will hose your fire controls badly.

And if the C goes pop, your others won't be able to see anything to shoot.

Should I tack on some ECCM then? I generally intend for this fighter to be as far from the front lines as possible.  It's more of a convoy-escort-escort role than anything else.

[GreatTuna]

Huh. Fighter with very-very small gauss cannon. I'm not fond of that kind of design, but it should work in huge swarms.

1. 100 tons? What's the point in making small craft THAT small?
2. You could use faster engine.
3. 8% accuracy is terrible, and like Erik said, ECM will likely wreck your to-hit chances.
4. What tech level is this? Gas AM drive, gauss with ROF 8... That's pretty late-game.

As for C, it fails at AWAC duty because 'early warning' will come too late to do anything. I'd recommend designing dedicated ship or installing bigger (one, there's not much space for two on fighter) sensor on this.

[83athom]

If you wish to go the fighter route here are some things you could do.
1) A reduced size lazer (of 10cm focus)
2) Size 1-3 box launchers
3) Keep it small as possible. I usually make 125 toned drones(light fighters) (more useful next update), ~250 ton fighters and interceptors, and 500 ton heavy fighters and bombers.
4) While I do like armoring my fighters, when they are that fast (and with that armament) they really don't need it.
5) Put your deployment time to 0.1 months. Doing this will reduce crew requirement (that's why others are able to have more weapons and/or utilities without having a large "fighter" crew).
Notes on what you have (and what others said); Despite ECM wrecking your FC, it doesn't matter to much, as a swarm of these can still do damage up close. Only 1 GC? I do have at least 2 on my designs (for rp mainly) but those are never the sole or main weapon system (even at that tech level). Your engines are fine as they are honestly. I do agree as the C is a flop, wait to fit sensors on a larger or dedicated craft and/or buff up your resolution

[BjornsonIII (OP)]

The Edelweiss is effectively a swarm ship.  I'm mostly preparing it for whenever the NPRs finally build fighters! With that in mind, I made some changes to the base fighter. 

The Edelweiss 1. 01 changelog:
Changed to . 1 month deployment
Added extra Gauss cannon
Threw away most of the armor.

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Edelweiss class Light Fighter    125 tons     1 Crew     121 BP      TCS 2.5  TH 100  EM 0
40000 km/s     Armour 2-2     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control Rating 0     PPV 1
Maint Life 0 Years     MSP 0    AFR 25%    IFR 0.3%    1YR 7    5YR 100    Max Repair 50 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 0.1 months    Spare Berths 9   

Genudine Dynamics 100-1-Series (1)    Power 100    Fuel Use 112.01%    Signature 100    Exp 20%
Fuel Capacity 5 000 Litres    Range 6.4 billion km   (44 hours at full power)

Archeron Limited 125MM TGC-6/8 (2x8)    Range 50 000km     TS: 40000 km/s     Accuracy Modifier 8%     RM 6    ROF 5        1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Mader Heavy Industries Fire Control S00.1 25-12500 (FTR) (1)    Max Range: 50 000 km   TS: 50000 km/s     80 60 40 20 0 0 0 0 0 0

This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and maintenance purposes