Posted by: Agraelgrimm
« on: June 03, 2021, 08:36:34 PM »The only thing i can add on what the others have said, at this point is: 1 You need more fuel. 21BKM wont cut it. Thats 1/3 of a medium solar system. You will need to use tankers a lot if you want to go somewhere and the thing about tankers is that they will slow down your ship making you lose initiative. I did my fair share of ships with this amount of fuel per trip and more often than not they stay dead on their tracks and take the fuel tankers on the same road, since they drink a lot of fuel. Or they will be slowed down to a point where the whole fleet becomes a sitting duck.
Aside from that, i would take out the AMM box launchers, go with a half size AMM launcher, and instead of going launchers for the main missiles, just go box on them. I would make... 36 box launchers for your anti ship missiles. That means that if the smeg hits the fan you can fire all of them at once, if its the case of a lone cruiser, or fire in salvos and if you kill the target, you still have missiles there.
Now, if the main purpose of the ship is being able to launch salvo after salvo of missiles, then you will need 2 launchers for that, a big magazine and that will come out of some beam weapons. I like the box launchers for medium missiles sizes because you dont need to waste space crew, launcher *and* magazine. The downside is your ship will have to dock to reload the missiles after it has used them all.
Aside from that, i would take out the AMM box launchers, go with a half size AMM launcher, and instead of going launchers for the main missiles, just go box on them. I would make... 36 box launchers for your anti ship missiles. That means that if the smeg hits the fan you can fire all of them at once, if its the case of a lone cruiser, or fire in salvos and if you kill the target, you still have missiles there.
Now, if the main purpose of the ship is being able to launch salvo after salvo of missiles, then you will need 2 launchers for that, a big magazine and that will come out of some beam weapons. I like the box launchers for medium missiles sizes because you dont need to waste space crew, launcher *and* magazine. The downside is your ship will have to dock to reload the missiles after it has used them all.