In the interest of keeping my shipyards flexible, I am experimenting with building two similar 15k ton ships out of the same yard. Both ships have a 45cm spinal laser, as I want to increase the overall fleet ranged damage and alpha strike. It's worth noting that I don't use box launchers at all and I only allow myself one 15kton missile ship per fleet, armed with fast, low damage size 4 ASMs to help keep the enemy's AMM spam focused on my missiles instead of my ships. My fleets usually include one or more battleships with larger active sensors (both anti-missile and anti-ship sensors) plus a handful of small active sensor scouts to increase missile hit-chance, and one dedicated sensor ship with very large passives for situational awareness. I also bring a support vehicle with MSP and fuel to keep the fleet topped off.
The Yang class is intended to be primarily offensive, with a 45cm spinal laser and 6 20cm lasers with a ROF of 10s. The idea is that the 20cm lasers create more opportunities for armor weak spots for the 45cm laser to punch right through, or hit in spots the 45cm has already gone through. I've heard that mixed high damage low ROF with low damage high ROF is optimal for causing internal damage.
The Yin class is intended to be primarily PD, but can still contribute to the offensive with the same 45cm spinal laser and one 20cm laser (because I could fit one but not an additional gauss turret).
A couple of questions for the hive mind: Is this a reasonable balance of weaponry vs armor and shielding? The shielding is equivalent to about 2 layers of armor, and there are 6 layers of actual armor. Is the speed reasonable for this tech level, or should I sacrifice some range/fuel efficiency and increase the engine boost to better control range with an equivalent tech enemy? I typically use SW BFC for each PD turret... is that overkill? My offensive lasers are usually focused on a single target, so I included two BFC (one of which is for battle redundancy) and a single ECCM. I tend to use a CIC on any ship above 10kton, is that reasonable?
Yang class Destroyer 14,974 tons 483 Crew 3,850.2 BP TCS 299 TH 2,500 EM 3,570
8347 km/s Armour 6-54 Shields 119-476 HTK 109 Sensors 7/0/0/0 DCR 30 PPV 74.62
Maint Life 2.05 Years MSP 1,607 AFR 179% IFR 2.5% 1YR 510 5YR 7,656 Max Repair 625 MSP
Captain Control Rating 3 BRG AUX CIC
Intended Deployment Time: 16 months Morale Check Required
Internal Fusion Drive EP1250.00 (2) Power 2500 Fuel Use 31.25% Signature 1250 Explosion 12%
Fuel Capacity 500,000 Litres Range 19.2 billion km (26 days at full power)
Epsilon S119 / R476 Shields (1) Recharge Time 476 seconds (0.3 per second)
45cm Spinal Laser (1) Range 384,000km TS: 8,347 km/s Power 53-5 RM 50,000 km ROF 55
20cm C5 Far Ultraviolet Laser (6) Range 384,000km TS: 8,347 km/s Power 10-5 RM 50,000 km ROF 10
Large Quad PD Turret (2x20) Range 30,000km TS: 25000 km/s Power 0-0 RM 30,000 km ROF 5
Beam Fire Control R100-TS20000 (SW) (2) Max Range: 100,000 km TS: 20,000 km/s 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0
Beam Fire Control R384-TS10000 (70%) (2) Max Range: 384,000 km TS: 10,000 km/s 97 95 92 90 87 84 82 79 77 74
Tokamak Fusion Reactor R36-PB20 (1) Total Power Output 35.7 Exp 10%
Active Search Sensor AS9-R1 (1) GPS 21 Range 9.7m km MCR 870.6k km Resolution 1
Thermal Sensor TH0.5-7.0 (1) Sensitivity 7 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 20.9m km
ECCM-1 (1) ECM 20
Yin class Destroyer 14,997 tons 423 Crew 3,620.6 BP TCS 300 TH 2,500 EM 3,570
8335 km/s Armour 6-54 Shields 119-476 HTK 118 Sensors 7/0/0/0 DCR 30 PPV 80.05
Maint Life 1.97 Years MSP 1,508 AFR 180% IFR 2.5% 1YR 514 5YR 7,706 Max Repair 625 MSP
Captain Control Rating 3 BRG AUX CIC
Intended Deployment Time: 18 months Morale Check Required
Internal Fusion Drive EP1250.00 (2) Power 2500 Fuel Use 31.25% Signature 1250 Explosion 12%
Fuel Capacity 500,000 Litres Range 19.2 billion km (26 days at full power)
Epsilon S119 / R476 Shields (1) Recharge Time 476 seconds (0.3 per second)
45cm Spinal Laser (1) Range 384,000km TS: 8,335 km/s Power 53-5 RM 50,000 km ROF 55
20cm C5 Far Ultraviolet Laser (1) Range 384,000km TS: 8,335 km/s Power 10-5 RM 50,000 km ROF 10
Large Quad PD Turret (5x20) Range 30,000km TS: 25000 km/s Power 0-0 RM 30,000 km ROF 5
Beam Fire Control R96-TS20000 (SW) (70%) (5) Max Range: 96,000 km TS: 20,000 km/s 90 79 69 58 48 38 27 17 6 0
Beam Fire Control R384-TS10000 (70%) (1) Max Range: 384,000 km TS: 10,000 km/s 97 95 92 90 87 84 82 79 77 74
Tokamak Fusion Reactor R11-PB20 (1) Total Power Output 11.1 Exp 10%
Active Search Sensor AS9-R1 (1) GPS 21 Range 9.7m km MCR 870.6k km Resolution 1
Thermal Sensor TH0.5-7.0 (1) Sensitivity 7 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 20.9m km
ECCM-1 (1) ECM 20