Quote from: SpaceMarine on Yesterday at 10:21:52 PM

With enough decoys, ATG and as much speed as you can give it, its got a decent shot of getting through, i think for something like a super mac on a OWP I will have them mount 3 size 99 launchers to represent rapid fire SMAC fire so 3 rounds in a burst etc. my only sad thing around this is, you cant make missile launchers bigger than 99 (why steve? come on pls give). so I cant have a literal 3000t projectile which they have in lore at most i can have a 1225t round

To be fair, if you are saying that ships are 1/5 to 1/20 their canonical sizes, a 1225 ton round works for the job, in fact it is a bit overkill at that ratio. Unfortunately however we are stuck with 247.5-ton projectiles (99 MSP * 2.5 tons/MSP) which implies just about a 1/12 ratio, solidly in the middle of that range but an unfortunate upper limit.

Maybe this should go into the suggestions thread, but instead of MACs say it is for Nova Cannons, Steve likes WH40K so that may pander more. 

Quote from: Panopticon on Yesterday at 04:43:56 PM

You might consider going a very different route and using a super missile. Make it some ridiculous size, keep it short range, and dump a ton of MSP into engine and warhead. Give it a custom name.

Quote from: SpaceMarine on Yesterday at 06:44:45 PM

Toying around with the idea of using missiles, heres an example of what a ship at 30kt using gas core tech would have, its 5000 tons of space to mount this between the magazine and the launcher, the launcher is a "light" MAC, aka a size 60 full reload rate missile launcher, and the magazine has enough capacity to store 10 kinetic rounds

At my relatively low tech level the "Missile" in question is not the most impressive but still two of them will destroy one of my current mainline frigates if they get through, i have stacked it with decoys and terminal guidance to give it the best chance it can, but of course more experimentation will be needed i have done some tests and it seems viable at actually getting through PD atleast on a localised level. also who doesnt like a 750 metric ton projectile being fired 31,333km/s towards aliens.

I did something similar in a WH40K setup to represent the Nova Cannon. This was before 2.2, so we did not have decoys so I ended up making the Nova Cannon round break into a couple dozen submunitions to have some chance of beating point defense. Never got to fire it though... nowadays with decoys you can probably make something pretty strong against enemy PD.