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Post by Enderminion on Apr 14, 2017 18:59:40 GMT
so the idea behind this is for close range conventional weapons engagements maybe? fudge it, totaly copying The Astronomer 's Project Prosperous and creating something wonderful. Since this has cold war level tech, roughly, their is going to a very cold war story in the background for all the battles. You may say something along the lines about tech devolpement during the years post cold war, and I will say thats the background story, and alt-history. factions are the UN (Earth plus Moon), Democratic People's Republic of Venus (teraforming and venus, main communist bad guy), the Martian Empire (german empire like empire, has mars and mars's moons), Jupiderian Soviet Union (Space Russians proxy for Venus), and the Republic of Saturn (East Asian style of republic [ie Japan and the ROK] and proxy for the UN). if you want to build "stock" ships for and of the factions or in general, Venus should have thinner armour and higher mass ratios and D-v, Earth ships should be balanced, Mars ships should have thicker armour and lower mass ratios (and more guns), and ships for the Gas Giant's should have lower D-v (they don't need to go as far) but more guns and armour (and room for drop tanks) the rules are simple: No Florine No EM weapons No lasers greater then 1Mw No laser mirrors greater than one meter No Diamond No Drones MPDs limited to 25% efficient Li-6 is out No NTRs or resistojets or MPDs on missiles you can use reasonable modded materials, resonable as in that V-carbon, but not things like Zurbol or Graphene
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Post by Pttg on Apr 14, 2017 19:32:44 GMT
Interesting limitations, although not entirely rigorous. I'd probably go with Methalox nuke missiles.
Throw in a ban on rubber (no trees in space!) and lasers become a threat again. I'll take a look at it in a bit.
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Post by Enderminion on Apr 14, 2017 19:36:26 GMT
why didn't you take trees with you?
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Post by bigbombr on Apr 14, 2017 20:16:05 GMT
I'm pretty sure you don't need trees for rubber. Latex is from tree sap, poly-isoprene isn't. Nor does poly-urethane require trees. Not sure about nitrile rubber, but it's probably based of poly-isoprene.
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Post by Durandal on Apr 14, 2017 20:50:10 GMT
Cold War challenge?
Cold War Challenge.
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Post by Enderminion on Apr 14, 2017 21:54:17 GMT
yes, basicly
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Post by Enderminion on Apr 15, 2017 18:30:38 GMT
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Post by Hicks on Apr 15, 2017 22:18:37 GMT
Dude? What's with that broadside nonsense? Nose first, use your angled armor to deflect stuff. Turrets shouldn't go in a line bow to stern, but in a ring around the waist of the vessel, and the vessel needs a wider middle. You only need the heavy armor in front of the bulge, which is in front of the turret ring, and the back 2/3rds can just be something light to resist nuke flash.
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Post by Enderminion on Apr 16, 2017 1:26:32 GMT
I should have done that
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Post by Pttg on Apr 16, 2017 8:10:28 GMT
Dude? What's with that broadside nonsense? Nose first, use your angled armor to deflect stuff. Turrets shouldn't go in a line bow to stern, but in a ring around the waist of the vessel, and the vessel needs a wider middle. You only need the heavy armor in front of the bulge, which is in front of the turret ring, and the back 2/3rds can just be something light to resist nuke flash. That exploits the fact that we can't have more than one fleet engage at once. If my enemy only armored the front of their ships, I'd have my fleet strike from two angles.
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Post by The Astronomer on Apr 16, 2017 8:18:39 GMT
Dude? What's with that broadside nonsense? Nose first, use your angled armor to deflect stuff. Turrets shouldn't go in a line bow to stern, but in a ring around the waist of the vessel, and the vessel needs a wider middle. You only need the heavy armor in front of the bulge, which is in front of the turret ring, and the back 2/3rds can just be something light to resist nuke flash. Because going head-on blinds all of my lasers in less than half a second.
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Post by The Astronomer on Apr 16, 2017 8:19:53 GMT
'Cold War level tech' around Jupiter, apparently ._.
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Post by elukka on Apr 16, 2017 9:08:47 GMT
Dude? What's with that broadside nonsense? Nose first, use your angled armor to deflect stuff. Turrets shouldn't go in a line bow to stern, but in a ring around the waist of the vessel, and the vessel needs a wider middle. You only need the heavy armor in front of the bulge, which is in front of the turret ring, and the back 2/3rds can just be something light to resist nuke flash. This additionally enables you to hide your radiators behind the bulk of your ship. If you're willing to focus entirely on frontal combat that can save you a lot of mass since the radiators don't need to be heavily armored.
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