Post your designs here!

...sidenote, has anyone come up with a decent Jericho-style missile that shoots missiles system yet?

I thought it was a supercarrier that carried sub-capital drones that fired drones that fired missiles?

Now I remember: both were created. A truly crazy community, I suppose. It's a great deal of fun though, seeing all the crazy shenanigans people come up with.

Was that your video with the ship that had guns that shot guns that shot guns that shot guns?

Or was it the ship that shot drones that shot more drones that shot missiles?

Found the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGCIsY9ycrk

 Could you put up the laser designs?

Drone Carrier and PD escort.

7mm railgun is 100MW with the 31.3/55.7/176km ranges against the standard target sizes (1,100,1000 m^2) - rates of fire and projectile energy (1g at 24.6km/s : 0.303 MJ) give a duty cycle of 6%
The light coil gun is 100MW with 13/25.4/80.4km ranges - duty cycle 47% with a 75g projectile at 11.2km/s

The escort's PD railgun is 100MW with a 16% duty cycle. Ranges 51.3//91.3/289km (1g @ 40.2km/s : 0.808 MJ).

The drone carrier uses "mobile mine" style drones, either to hunt down opposing fleets by inching closer and forcing costly evasion or tactically by opening a crossing angle to the mobile element:



The same 7mm railgun as the carrier and escort secondary battery, but on a small (armoured) platform that is left behind the evading capital ships - and a companion 100MW laser platform with a 151kg compact laser as fitted to the nose battery ring of the escort. Radiator and reactors are also common to the capital ships, but used in smaller numbers.

The movement differential between fleet (broadside/NTR) and drones (nose mounted/resistojet) gives a high 'cut' angle when engaging enemy vessels,  with a corresponding improvement in the penetration / targeting behaviour of the railguns - though they are capable of stripping weapons of huge fleets of (modified) stock vessels, plus all their drone/missile fleets by eliminating weapons/radiators even when the flat noses are improved by the addition of large spacers to give a sharp point... but with a 20-30 degree crossing angle between the two firing groups as the range drops clean penetrations of the hull are seen - and this is true even of the osmium/aerogel/boron/am carbon/diamond sandwiches.

These drones are relatively large - and fitting both types to the hull was a pain and grew the size by 1000m^2, but the result is still a useful tool. Capital ships are the ultimate glass cannon though, with almost no resistance to penetration, and the drones are also not very resistant to damage if overwhelmed.



Other related platforms include large, light coilguns (up to 46/81.7/258km, 100g @ 36km/s) with a 1-3 round per second fire rate (which looks much more awesome than the 'hose' style, and will hit with nearly every round), and huge (but slow and very expensive) nose mounted railguns with up to 115/205/647km range.

The lighter coil gun ship is workable alone, but the ultra-long ranged ship requires an escorting vessel to protect it against leakers due to the slow traverse rate.