Aurora 4x
VB6 Aurora => Bureau of Ship Design => Topic started by: Borealis4x on August 05, 2016, 08:10:34 PM
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Here are my first PDC designs. I made them with the knowledge that my cargo ships all have 4 cargo bays able to carry a total of 20 PDC components and that they will be grouped into twos. I will also be making a dedicated PDC outpost constructor designed to carry 10 PDC components as well as a brigade of construction workers. Note that I intentionally left out passive sensors because they will be provided by deep space tracking sensors.
UNSA Outpost class Planetary Defence Centre 24,800 tons 336 Crew 5009.32 BP TCS 496 TH 0 EM 0
Armour 5-75 Sensors 1/1800 Damage Control Rating 0 PPV 26.84
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months Flight Crew Berths 80
Hangar Deck Capacity 1000 tons Troop Capacity: 1 Battalion Magazine 72
Maintenance Modules: 3 module(s) capable of supporting ships of 600 tons
Fuel Capacity 1,000,000 Litres Range N/A
Twin Kaul-Behring Gauss Cannon R4-100 Turret (2x8) Range 36,000km TS: 10000 km/s Power 0-0 RM 4 ROF 5 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MOWAG PDC Point Defense Fire Control S00.5 18-25000 H30 (1) Max Range: 36,000 km TS: 25000 km/s 72 44 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
EADS North America PDC Point Defense Sensor MR324-R1 (30%) (1) GPS 1800 Range 324.0m km MCR 35.3m km Resolution 1
ECCM-3 (1)
This design is classed as a Planetary Defence Centre and can be pre-fabricated in 10 sections
This design is for putting on the very fringes of the frontier and for providing rudimentary defenses and power projection in a system without any colonies.
UNSA Garrison class Planetary Defence Centre 50,000 tons 706 Crew 11740.8 BP TCS 1000 TH 0 EM 0
Armour 9-120 Sensors 1/1800 Damage Control Rating 20 PPV 87.1
Intended Deployment Time: 6 months Flight Crew Berths 119
Hangar Deck Capacity 5000 tons Troop Capacity: 5 Battalions Magazine 507
Maintenance Modules: 3 module(s) capable of supporting ships of 600 tons
Fuel Capacity 1,000,000 Litres Range N/A
Twin Kaul-Behring Gauss Cannon R4-100 Turret (5x8) Range 36,000km TS: 10000 km/s Power 0-0 RM 4 ROF 5 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MOWAG PDC Point Defense Fire Control S00.5 18-25000 H30 (1) Max Range: 36,000 km TS: 25000 km/s 72 44 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
UNSADB PDC Size 20 Missile Launcher (1) Missile Size 20 Rate of Fire 50
EADS North America PDC Missile Fire Control FC2090-R40 (30%) (1) Range 2,090.1m km Resolution 40
EADS North America PDC Active Search Sensor MR2049-R40 (30%) (1) GPS 72000 Range 2,049.2m km Resolution 40
EADS North America PDC Point Defense Sensor MR324-R1 (30%) (1) GPS 1800 Range 324.0m km MCR 35.3m km Resolution 1
ECCM-3 (2)
This design is classed as a Planetary Defence Centre and can be pre-fabricated in 20 sections
This is designed to be placed on fledgling colonies and major installations.
UNSA Fortress class Planetary Defence Centre 98,200 tons 1764 Crew 19272 BP TCS 1964 TH 0 EM 0
Armour 14-189 Sensors 1/1800 Damage Control Rating 20 PPV 401.3
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months Flight Crew Berths 662
Hangar Deck Capacity 10000 tons Troop Capacity: 5 Battalions Magazine 2148
Maintenance Modules: 5 module(s) capable of supporting ships of 1000 tons
Fuel Capacity 5,000,000 Litres Range N/A
Twin Kaul-Behring Gauss Cannon R4-100 Turret (15x8) Range 36,000km TS: 10000 km/s Power 0-0 RM 4 ROF 5 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MOWAG PDC Point Defense Fire Control S00.5 18-25000 H30 (3) Max Range: 36,000 km TS: 25000 km/s 72 44 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
UNSADB PDC Size 20 Missile Launcher (10) Missile Size 20 Rate of Fire 50
EADS North America PDC Missile Fire Control FC2090-R40 (30%) (2) Range 2,090.1m km Resolution 40
EADS North America PDC Active Search Sensor MR2049-R40 (30%) (1) GPS 72000 Range 2,049.2m km Resolution 40
EADS North America PDC Point Defense Sensor MR324-R1 (30%) (1) GPS 1800 Range 324.0m km MCR 35.3m km Resolution 1
ECCM-3 (5)
This design is classed as a Planetary Defence Centre and can be pre-fabricated in 40 sections
This is designed to protect major colonies.
Also, here is the missile I will be loading them with.
Missile Size: 20 MSP (1 HS) Warhead: 48 Armour: 1 Manoeuvre Rating: 10
Speed: 28000 km/s Engine Endurance: 87 minutes Range: 145.9m km
ECM Level: 3
Cost Per Missile: 20.75
Chance to Hit: 1k km/s 280% 3k km/s 90% 5k km/s 56% 10k km/s 28%
Materials Required: 12.25x Tritanium 1.5x Uridium 7x Gallicite Fuel x12500
Development Cost for Project: 2075RP
Fort Harper class Planetary Defence Centre 467,750 tons 5392 Crew 79459 BP TCS 9355 TH 0 EM 0
Armour 54-536 Sensors 1/1800 Damage Control Rating 20 PPV 1756
Intended Deployment Time: 120 months Flight Crew Berths 4745
Hangar Deck Capacity 100000 tons Troop Capacity: 21 Battalions Magazine 5270
Maintenance Modules: 5 module(s) capable of supporting ships of 1000 tons
Fuel Capacity 10,000,000 Litres Range N/A
Quad Kaul-Behring Gauss Cannon R4-100 Turret (40x16) Range 36,000km TS: 10000 km/s Power 0-0 RM 4 ROF 5 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MOWAG PDC Point Defense Fire Control S00.5 18-25000 H30 (8) Max Range: 36,000 km TS: 25000 km/s 72 44 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
UNSADB PDC Size 20 Missile Launcher (20) Missile Size 20 Rate of Fire 50
EADS North America PDC Missile Fire Control FC2090-R40 (30%) (4) Range 2,090.1m km Resolution 40
EADS North America PDC Point Defense Sensor MR324-R1 (30%) (1) GPS 1800 Range 324.0m km MCR 35.3m km Resolution 1
EADS North America PDC Active Search Sensor MR2049-R40 (30%) (1) GPS 72000 Range 2,049.2m km Resolution 40
ECCM-3 (12)
This design is classed as a Planetary Defence Centre and can be pre-fabricated in 188 sections
This is going to be built on Earth mainly to store light craft but also to defend. I admit I went a little nuts...
Tell me whether I should trade out my quad guns for twin of vise-versa.
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What do you intend to use these PDCs for? They are really big and will take awhile for construction brigades to set up.
You are also putting small amounts of maintenance on them. The maintenance module support ships in orbit. There is nothing wrong with putting the module on pdcs as long as that is what you intend.
The guass guns won't work on a planet with an atmosphere.
Your really powerful sensors have a long range but your tracking station will probably be as effective at detecting ships and won't announce the existence of your pdcs when on. I'd dial those active sensors down to about a tenth of their range and use them to light up targets once they are in range of your missles.
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Alright, so I tired to build Fort Harper on Earth and it said it would take 400 years. Then I tried to build prefab garrison but it said it would be 40 years. I'm not really sure what size your supposed to make PDCs but it seems the game wants them to be incredibly small.
I was hoping that the gauss guns would work as point defense, but I forgot atmosphere effects it... I suppose you need to use anti-missile missiles to defend a planet. Asteroids will allow uninhibited beam weapon use, right?
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From an atmosphere, you can use meson turrets. You can also develop a smallorbital defense pod. Just make a ship, put a guass turret and fire control onit and little else. Store it on a pdc with a hangar. whenyou need to defend, launch your orbital platform and it should work.
When I do pdcs, I tend to make them very specialized and as small as possible. Good luck
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Alright, so I tired to build Fort Harper on Earth and it said it would take 400 years. Then I tried to build prefab garrison but it said it would be 40 years. I'm not really sure what size your supposed to make PDCs but it seems the game wants them to be incredibly small.
I was hoping that the gauss guns would work as point defense, but I forgot atmosphere effects it... I suppose you need to use anti-missile missiles to defend a planet. Asteroids will allow uninhibited beam weapon use, right?
You must have really low productions if it takes you 40 years to build the Garrison. However, Fort Harper is actually gigantic, so I'd expect it to take a long time (but still, 400 years is a little too long).
Also, I believe that CIWSs do work in atmosphere, if that suits your purposes.
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Fort harper is big enough you could shove an orbital habitat on it and build it with factories. Though I don't know if it would still count as a PDC then.