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Post by anotherfirefox on Aug 20, 2018 0:29:33 GMT
Edit: I have no experience with dedicated broadsiders, but the main issue with yours seems to be dramatically low acceleration - broadsiders are less optimized for tanking enemy fire than steeply sloped needleships - polygonal, high aspect armour helps here, but their main asset is axis of thrust perpendicular to the combat facing.
Other than that you can see how my designs are made and experiment with what works and what doesn't, maybe pick up a few tricks. I don't claim to be an expert and my designs do offer a lot of room for improvement. They are nevertheless excessively powerful compared to their stock counterparts.
So...basically I have to get much more(>10) TWR with stock only. Gonna get some advice from your steam workshop... + Nevermind, I found out that one nozzle methane NTR has super lower thrust than multi nozzled, so it will be much easier
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Post by anotherfirefox on Aug 20, 2018 8:43:05 GMT
With your advice, I gave them a legit maneuverability. I'm super happy with it. However it seems that I face the dumb AI RCS problem hard...especially when they do broadside, they just keep rotating until they expose their nude back. I removed 4 abundant methalox RCS at 30' and 330', and left only four at 0'. Still it isn't solved.
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Post by AtomHeartDragon on Aug 20, 2018 9:26:23 GMT
Edit: I have no experience with dedicated broadsiders, but the main issue with yours seems to be dramatically low acceleration - broadsiders are less optimized for tanking enemy fire than steeply sloped needleships - polygonal, high aspect armour helps here, but their main asset is axis of thrust perpendicular to the combat facing.
Other than that you can see how my designs are made and experiment with what works and what doesn't, maybe pick up a few tricks. I don't claim to be an expert and my designs do offer a lot of room for improvement. They are nevertheless excessively powerful compared to their stock counterparts.
So...basically I have to get much more(>10) TWR with stock only. Gonna get some advice from your steam workshop... + Nevermind, I found out that one nozzle methane NTR has super lower thrust than multi nozzled, so it will be much easier It was 'fun' when we only had the single nozzled variant to work with.
When going stock I had to put three of those on a 1kt ship (screenies in the conventional gun challenge thread) and resort to hybrid propulsion for larger ships (previous variants of my gunship, frigate and fleet carrier counterparts) - with meth-LOx for RCS and thrust augmentation.
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Post by anotherfirefox on Aug 20, 2018 15:53:25 GMT
Still has some issue with broadsiding but my PCC Zweihander ahs reformed into more usable one So does PEO Handsaw
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