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True, true. I tried a non-explosive variant, but it cost a bit more with no apparent increase in performance, so I think this will do.

Sorry for double post, but the attachment limit is annoying.

But anyway, I did something completely insane again.




Yes, it's a flying saucer shaped missiles.




Yes, it works perfectly fine, and can kill warships as effective as a normal missile.

It was insanely maneuverable but also jiggled around like mad, as it was near uncontrollable and yet it still hit the target most of the time.

It's erm... incredibly stupid idea that somehow works.

Well, sadly. It seems to require a ton of balancing and even a minor change can caused the whole thing to crash.

And it didn't give me the scar effect that I wanted, it still give a radial flak burst effect.

Annnnd it requires a whole lot more missile just for a hit.

The game isn't really made to handle this but it still kind works, badly.

Well, I'm going the other way instead.

By making MORE super micro gundrone.

In this case, super micro RAILgundrone.



With this railgun weighing at 5.6 kg with 1000 rounds.



Main purpose of this railgun drone is to see if railgun could give any more advantage than conventional gun at micro scale, the answer was yes.



The drone basically has enough firepower from the railgun that it can kill ships via brute force instead of relying on precision targeting all the time, which is good for a failsafe.

And considering each of these drones are dirt cheap as hell, putting 50 of them in a swarm isn't bad at all.

if you want to save a couple of grams you could use aluminium copper for the barrel, it is a bit lighter and give twice the fire rate
if you add swapping to osmium shells you can even get faster velocity and roughly the same price tag because ammo is cheaper
osmium becomes better as power input goes up, you can in theory with many many kW of input power shrink the size of that rail gun to below 2kg
it also satisfies the "realism criteria" since you can adjust input power as needed

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Okay, soooo I have another idea yet again.

After being satisfied with my sub-capital drone and drone carrier being able to outdo conventional warship while saving cost and mass, I wondered...

"Hey, why don't we let drone do everything since they are so good at it?"

So I made this as a spin on an old idea.



Introducing, the passive combat warship concept.

Basically, what you do is pack EVERYTHING you want on your warship into a drone, and let the drone do its job by making your crewed warship a single pack drone carrier.




It has one drone and one 20 MW laser for missile and drone defense, and that's fine. Because that's more than enough already.

Costing less than 2 million credit, the drone can easily fly out, send out its payload, or even go on suicide run without the crew in any danger what so ever.

And if all else failed, the crew can run like frak with a delta-V of 6.8 kilometer.




And as always, I made a carrier that launches drone that launches drones.

Weighing only 900 tons, it saved nearly half of the mass of the original warships, so this investment is totally worth it.

Use it now to keep your crew safe!

EDIT: 

This concept is less efficient on warship heavier than 5 kiloton, but it still save a bit of material cost and mass.