I'm opening this thread to allow for comments and inquiries about the ship designs
I've posted on the wiki. I used to have a page for my old Terran Federation, but I overwrote it with this one since I'm generally happier with the new designs.
Here's my newest design, the
Rheinland-class Strike Cruiser, designed to run targets down and put house-sized holes in them.
I'm currently retooling my shipyards for an initial building run of eight vessels.
Rheinland class Strike Cruiser 12,000 tons 1313 Crew 5416.4 BP TCS 240 TH 1440 EM 1800
12000 km/s Armour 8-46 Shields 60-300 Sensors 36/36/0/0 Damage Control Rating 6 PPV 54
Annual Failure Rate: 192% IFR: 2.7% Maint Capacity 1693 MSP Max Repair 288 MSP Est Time: 2.02 Years
GN-160M5 ICARUS InerCon Fusion Drive (18) Power 160 Fuel Use 50% Signature 80 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 350,000 Litres Range 105.0 billion km (101 days at full power)
GenCore Xi-class R300/25 Barriers (12) Total Fuel Cost 300 Litres per day
Raytheon Spartan-320 CIWS (2x6) Range 1000 km TS: 32000 km/s ROF 5 Base 50% To Hit
EADS Durandal 300mm/VC68 Naval Railgun (6x4) Range 420,000km TS: 12000 km/s Power 21-8 RM 6 ROF 15 7 7 7 7 7 7 5 5 4 4
Durandal FCS 240-8 (2) Max Range: 480,000 km TS: 8000 km/s 98 96 94 92 90 88 85 83 81 79
Type XII InerCon Fusion Reactor (4) Total Power Output 48 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Artemis ALS 86-20 (1) GPS 2160 Range 86.9m km Resolution 20
Hunter PST 2.36 (1) Sensitivity 36 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 36m km
Hunter PSE 2.36 (1) Sensitivity 36 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 36m km
ECCM-3 (2) ECM 40
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
The anti-missile protection should be enough against light warheads: the
Rheinland is meant to charge in after the enemy has wasted its heavier missiles against the gauss turrets of the
Sussex-class frigates (and possibly a newer design in the not so distant future). I'm also considering designing a fast anti-missile corvette class to follow and protect the strike cruisers, since they're quite faster than the aforementioned frigates and the missile-armed
Percivals.