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I love 1.10 . Suddenly the game became much more interesting. 
Here is what I've been working on for the last two days. 

Andarta is the offensive/gunship equivalent, armed with:
    48 counter laser turrets , driven by 10 lasers (fps reasons - could easily be much more).
    Single 400MW laser with six turrets.
    1200 small, fast, 13km/s, dual warhead missiles with external tanks.
    300 similar missiles without the external tanks - to avoid the lag if I have to launch under fire.
    60 small defensive laser drones - could be easily much more but I want to avoid giving the AI rope to hang my PC. I usually send a single drone towards the missile swarm and shoot the engines of the missiles as I pass by.
    3 multifunctional small 15MW needle guns with around 41/42km/s. 
    Single very accurate 100MW large needle gun with 100km/s at the bow. Certainly more speed and range is possible with a much larger gun and more power. This almost got under 300 tons and generally has a pretty descent turning speed for a large gun.

Minerva is the defensive/escort laser frigate equivalent. 40 meters and 20 million credits less than Andarta. Sacrifices almost all offensive punch, except the multifunctional needle guns to get there however.
Both ships have pretty decent acceleration of 0.6/0.7G that really helps with missle swarms, if the lasers and drones do not get them before that.
If anyone is interested in details about anything just ask.

No, a single laser can only power a single turret.

However, having multiple turret meant that the laser can transfer laser power to another turret when one turret was destroyed.

More power allows for smaller turrets. It's a trade off as always.

Thanks for the design!

So, with my attempt on making coilgun from scratch ended in complete failure, I decided to copy a stock coilgun and see what makes it ticks.

I ended up picking the insnaely accurate sniper coilgun and got this as end result.




Light weight, but still really acurrate and hit really hard.

And erm... slightly cheaper, not that it means anything with that price tag.



I can't figure out how to increase the efficiency of the coilgun so I used tungsten rhenium to fight the possibility of being overheated.

As I've seen coilguns go, extra stages are almost detrimental

Probably needs to be polished more, but: turns out you can still use railguns to impart lots of delta v to small missiles.  If you are willing to spend the relevant power.

Here's a hafnia capacitor that stores 1.55 GJ, and, incidentally, a gun that launches nuclear micromissiles (3.6 kg) at almost 8 km/s:





Range is also reasonable, but the idea is that this is a missile that can adjust the trajectory some, and so should be fired at much longer ranges.

I have so far tested in place of / paired up large laser ships. It's very satisfying to see a nuclear missile accelerating towards the enemy at those speeds.