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I updated my patterned fragment missile to the fuse age. Thanks to the 1-gram fuse module, I can switch from platinum pellets to 1-kg frag warheads as my launched submunitions while still keeping the package light enough. This has the added benefit of limiting the amount of ship-type objects in the game, meaning the design is mostly lag-free as well. The missile itself is not that special, it's the same fixed-mount main thruster with 8 smaller RCS thrusters design I've used quite a bit. It's got enough delta-v and acceleration to be comfortable to use from 200 km, resulting in a 30-ish second travel time. It also has enough armor to get through the Gunship's railguns and lasers without significant damage.

Missile design:


The blast launchers are carefully timed so that they produce a tight spread pattern but have time to deploy all four rings of submunitions. I ended up with a 2.5 km trigger range, which gives roughly 250 milliseconds for the munitions to deploy and detonate. Put together, the missile has a 500-kg KE impactor along with 192 kilos of fragments in a roughly 10-meter spread around the kinetic impact. This gives a nice dual-purpose effect, as the fragments tend to do a lot of damage even if the missile itself doesn't hit anything vital.

Thanks to the armor and RCS design, it's accurate and durable enough to usually take down a Gunship with a single missile, but it's fairly cheap so there's no reason not to fire a bunch of them at the same time. Below are results from a few combat tests I did.



All in all, the fuse modules seem like a very versatile addition to the game. Most of all they make life a lot easier when dealing with smaller explosives, as you no longer need to pay the 1-kg tax to get your explosives to detonate on time.

I think that at some points of playing game, instead of killing giant capital ships s efficiently as possible, you just want to kill things with as much style as possible while still being somewhat effective.

That missile design get a 10/10 on style from me for literally making a target from targeting the warship with missiles.

The workshop file for that drone seems to be bugged. It looks like this.

No, what modules does it use?

That's a bit condescending, isn't it? The missile is still around 15,000 times cheaper than the Gunship so I don't see what difference the cost makes at that point. Both are basically free compared to any warship. You should also note that killing a gunship from side-on is totally trivial, since both reactors are located exactly where all missiles will home due to the radiator placement. Obviously, if any missile that can penetrate the armor will do, you can use the cheapest KKV you can make in the game.

As for the micromissile, my submission cost 4 credits more than omnipotentvoid's, but that's mainly because I used a frag warhead, he did a pure KKV which is obviously a bit cheaper. See here: childrenofadeadearth.boards.net/thread/1573/challenge-micromissiles?page=3&scrollTo=28951

As for the drone, I haven't tested against that one but I did beat deep fryers with various drones and warships, as well as a custom laser drone I designed myself based on the deep fryer (with and without the railgun). Thread linked here, starting with my favourite ship, with which I managed to beat 11 deep fryers at once: childrenofadeadearth.boards.net/post/27305/thread

Well, tried out some dumb-fire rocket in my drones anddd the results are

Would honestly be more spectacular if the game isn't running 1 frame per second from the sheer amount of rockets.

I pretty much need multiple times more rockets than missile in mass just to get somewhere with the damage.

However, against stock ship with flare, missiles are wildly inaccurate no matter how I tweak it so dumb-fire rocket would work well against them.

Would honestly work better with conventional cannon but sometimes you just want to fire loads of rockets.