"Looks like a bar of soap" I say call the heavy bomber, "Cleaner" ... or "Dove" I hope Lathrix delves back into railguns, because railguns are my favorite guns.
For the record, most carriers irl DO have cannons, they're just not large-calliber "would be the main armament of a similar sized craft" cannons. I feel like putting in the simple casemated weapons would strike a nice balance and be more authentic... or at least, as authentic as it could be on a flying carrier lol.
Tiger the Lion I mean the ship to ship missiles on a modern carrier would probably be able to do far more single hit damage than a normal cannon like you might find on a destroyer.
Aye I'm waiting and hoping earnestly for him to build a ship that is built around a single massive weapon, hopefully a railgun, but any big gun that you can't miss when it fires you know? Like having another flying battleship would be cool, but he has alot of huge builds already also
i like this style of building videos, instead of just jumping from the beginning of the build to the finished design since it is more informative, and also more efficient for you to record and edit since you have to record less to get the same amount of content and that means less burnout and more From the depths videos!
23:50 Or you could convert some other ship into a temporary carrier design. Imagine the darts and bombers being carried into battle by converted Marauders.
The missile system costs 8k - The laser system cost over 30k. The missile system's ammo use Isn't too high (300 ammo/sec when constantly on, which isn't always the case.) - The laser took 20k+ engine power which required larger engines which now I can remove to save a LOT in both fuel and engine cost. The missile system is less than 100 volume total, the laser was over 900. Old habits do die hard, but here I feel like It was the better choice and was cheaper in pretty much every way! Advanced cannons might have been another good choice, but space & cost also seems a bit high or at least on par with the missile system but not as easy to armour up. ...Wow that was a long answer, I'm not great at short replies It seems haha! ^_^
@@Lathland I honestly feel you could make the missile interceptor system even cheaper, ammo-wise anyway, by taking away the "radar flares" and switching to small missiles, and then add a dedicated "radar decoy" medium missile launcher. That way you wouldn't "waste" ammo by having every missile act as a decoy, you'd shorten your interceptor reload times and you'd also pump out decoys faster than the current setup.
I really really liked the laser system. It looked fantastic, and in my opinion, the carrier should be a defensive bastion that can deny any enemy attacks while it's fighters/bombers pick apart the enemy.
@@LZ_ He tried that in another FTD campaign. He made a carrier which spawned these mosquito like nuke crafts (TestNukev3) which flew at the enemy and detonated on impact. He used them for a couple of episodes but then retired them because they were way too OP. If he does it again I imagine it would be the same result.
When you're a strong independent Dart, and in the words of the all knowing Lathrix, "Don't need no carrier" (insert sassy finger snaps were applicable)
I would recomend, a mixture of fast firing cannons so it still has to relay on the bombers to do the majority of the damage. As the cramms seams over kill
Hey Lathland, if you watch the video through 11:43 to 11:46, you can see that the CRAM cannon shells fired and the laser took out each one individually, you can see that because two lasers fired a little delayed and you can see that it hit two individual CRAM shots, so, therefore, the lasers shoot each CRAM shot individually and indeed not affected by explosions in the vicinity. * Sorry about my wording, please tell me if I have anything wrong *
I wanted to thank you Lathrix for inspiring me to play FtD. I've spent days and days on building a battlecruiser and it has just managed to beat an Alcazar 69% to 87% hp while being 70k cheaper! It doesn't have any propulsion, half the space on the inside is unused, the main turrets keep on getting rekt by a good cram cannon hit and I've built it sideways, but I haven't been that happy in *months*
im genuinely impressed with the frequency of these videos. you inspired me to re-install... and after about two minutes looking around i gave up. this is the kind of game that will literally consume your life if you want to play even half way decently. i wonder where you find the time to play even though your life must be going on in the background
6:10 that just makes it look like it's being powered by dark matter. That is red 🙃 just imagine it covered in red sheild that is slightly visable and smoke coming out the back.
The power-to-effect ratio on the shields grows rapidly, so 2 strength 5 shields on top of each other will be almost as protective as 1 strength 10 while consuming way less power
Attempt 3: Talk to aavak and do an avorion versus series. Lathrixian Legion versus Aavak's Dapperlings multiplayer server territory conquest with blood for none other than the blood god
@@giarnovanzeijl399 Aavak is someone lathrix used to do stuff with, idk if they are still friends, but both are welsh and can listen to both of them for hours. It can easily be a lathrix aavak co op campaign or a lathrix +subs versus aavak + subs multiplayer server
As much as I want this, I got to go pessimistic and say this isn’t going to happen, lath is a single player person. I really hope this happens but I doubt it
I think the spinal mounted crams were a good idea. Either that or something more mortar like since this is essentially just meant to sit at range and keep the craft fueled. Honestly I don't think the simple weaponry should even be in range to be used
If you want to use anti missle cannon controller and you don't want to build a dedicated weapon for it you can instead use them on simple weapons (I believe all that have exploding shells work) They are very good weapon against missles for their size
Hey Lathland, I have a couple idea's for the aircraft carrier. 1.) Mount some Type L Casemated Gun's or Type L(E) Casemated Gun's on the side of the carrier so that if need be, the carrier can defend itself against ships while the aa guns focus on air born targets. And they would make sense due to in real life, some air craft carriers have used secondary guns to defend themselves. For example the "Essex-class aircraft carrier" used 12 × 5-inch (127 mm) /38 caliber guns (4 × 2 and 4 × 1) to protect it's self against ships. 2.) If you do use the missiles to defend the carrier against other missiles, you can probably use the large missile to deploy smaller missiles to intercept the incoming missiles.
I’d like to see a nearly pure defense satellite. Laser and shield, Way up in the sky. I don’t know what you’d do for offense, but the point is to never take damage. If you never take damage, then eventually your enemies will run out of food (or in this case fuel and ammo), and you’ll win by default.
*@Lathland* 7:36 -ish. Would it be possible to put a shield projector on a kind of arm (like an industrial assembly robot) and have the arm aim the shield towards incoming projectiles? Possibly angling the shield as much as possible so a bounce is most likely (given that individual projectiles position & trajectory can be detected?) Maybe put a beam on a 2-axis turret, with another turret on it, with the shield on that, or something similar, so the movement & aiming is mostly automated (kind of the same system as the "mad squirrels?" use, if I'm not mistaken?).
Something I might suggest, Lathrix, is you should make it able to float in water. That way, if it somehow gets damaged enough to fall from the sky, but not so damaged that it's completely out of the fight, then it's not useless. While the darts on the side of it will be, the bombers would still be able to use it as a regular aircraft carrier.
At some point in the future, dediblades will require free space behind (and/or in front?), much like jets. There are three sizes of ducts in the build menu, which are currently just for aesthetics. But I think you should build around them to prevent all craft that rely on internal blades from dropping out of the sky
It seems Lathrix never lost his touch with lasers, which was quite good near the first end. Good to know, the huge lasers were always fun to watch (though extremely heavy artillery or particle cannons even more so).
20:00 just to mention, if all engines are on, it matters what percentage of power one is using, as using almost all the power of an engine while also using turbochargers is generally more efficient than low power carburettor ones, for fuel at least
On a sidenote, the mortar bomber could be a high altitude bomber, to make even more use of the homing, but that's just a sidenote, so I didn't include it in the main comment.
@Lathland, I think having a carrier with only defensive weapons make more sense than adding more (costly) weapons. Ideally you would use a fleet of them. And the airplanes are the true weapon. If you want more powerful weapons in the future, you can always retrofit the planes. Maybe some laser interceptor planes? who knows.
I really like the anti-projectile lasers. Perhaps to limit energy consumption, have one laser on each side set to max power/range using primarily huge initial energy storage with a very low recharge rate and add more lasers set to max power with a much lower range that also use large initial energy storage systems but also have a much faster recharge rate. That way, the long range ones will be able to stop initial volleys and occasionally help out as the battles continue while the short range ones will pick up the slack when the first set gets energy starved, but won't consume as much energy since their range is much shorter.
I'm so freaking excited to see the carrier in campaign battles! I still feel like you should have a bomber dropping those swarm missile type warheads for some proper carpet bombing / mine laying, but these models definitely punch some holes.
Wow i loved that lasers system! Please do a strong laser system! So this ship can be something that changes the tide of a battle by constantly suppressing the enemies while the aircraft chip health points away from them.
The lasers looked nice, but I'd say an assortment of point-defense cannons (advanced or simple) around the perimeter of the hull will do any adequate job of keeping missiles and aircraft at bay.
lathrix, you should make a massive bomber plane, like it is a bit on the slow side, and flies high, but when it drops its payload it hurts. you could do like one absolutely massive cram shell, several small cram, or even do a bomb with the large missles, so that it is like the fat man.
Other thoughts Helium got a boost some time back. Using it in any large empty spaces should reduce fuel consumption a little. Not much, but it's cheap. The ring shields should be good for this: they provide a direct bonus to AC in one axis. Great for ships that point an armour-blob at the enemy.
You could call your heavy bomber the “Tater Tot”, because it looks like one but with pointy wings 😎👍👍 carrier is definitely coming along😎👍👍 Thanks for sharing Lathland 😎👍👍
i think a good way to fill the sides of the carrier while not useing alot of mass is have week shield's covering them just enough to protect from small shells but nothing large, kinda like a star wars thing with the planes floating back in after a fight and poping out when a fight starts just a thing is theirs any power left for it and or mass. More of a looks thing tho.
I think you should still use shields but only to cover the dart docking stations to make it look like their not just sticking out, and it will add a little protection to the more fragile middle. But hey, your carrier still looks amazing.
You should name the heavy bomber the heavy potato. And add little eyes to the penguin, by coloring the area around a chosen point black and having little red eyes
"Careful Carrier Construction Continues, Cautiously!"
Who are you and what have you done with our Drunkthrix?!
Accurate.
When drunkthrix come he'll make it into a cram mortor carrier
This sounds so familiar tbh...
I think the Dove would be a good name for it. Partially for the irony, somewhat because it's a bird, mostly because it's a brand of soap.
Weaponized Pizza you just made me delete my suggestion well done
Agree
Lathrix: "We're the good guys!"
Also Lathrix: * *creates giant red tornadoes of doom* *
That was lathrix’s point...
There tornadoes of love and affection
Never judge a book by its cover friend
That's the delivery system for the blood
@@mrwobblyshark465 what if that book is coverd in skin has satanic symbols and says "necronomocon" on the front?
"sticky-outy just there weird potato onion"
-Lathrix 2020
I'm voting for this as the carrier's name.
Thou shall be thy name
The carrier should definitely be called The Ark. Afterall, you do have a penguin, a dart, and a mole-like bomber.
noooooo he must call it the Dartboard
Because a mole is an animal
5:55 - 6:34
'The Dartboard sends the blood of its victims directly to the Bloodgood...'
"Looks like a bar of soap" I say call the heavy bomber, "Cleaner" ... or "Dove"
I hope Lathrix delves back into railguns, because railguns are my favorite guns.
railguns are the only guns
Lathland: This game is so fun! I love every type of boat and airplane that you can build in any size!
Also Lathland: *CHONKY* BOATS
For the record, most carriers irl DO have cannons, they're just not large-calliber "would be the main armament of a similar sized craft" cannons. I feel like putting in the simple casemated weapons would strike a nice balance and be more authentic... or at least, as authentic as it could be on a flying carrier lol.
Tiger the Lion I mean the ship to ship missiles on a modern carrier would probably be able to do far more single hit damage than a normal cannon like you might find on a destroyer.
Tiger the Lion the U.S. does want to have a railgun on a carrier.
@@Core-1948 the US cant put a railgun on any ship it requires to much power the US is planning on putting a eletric slingshot on carriers
noob noob dude you realize a lot of our ships are nuclear powered nowadays right?
Aye I'm waiting and hoping earnestly for him to build a ship that is built around a single massive weapon, hopefully a railgun, but any big gun that you can't miss when it fires you know? Like having another flying battleship would be cool, but he has alot of huge builds already also
i like this style of building videos, instead of just jumping from the beginning of the build to the finished design since it is more informative, and also more efficient for you to record and edit since you have to record less to get the same amount of content and that means less burnout and more From the depths videos!
So yay for everyone
6:00
Oh my... *I love that*
me too
23:50 Or you could convert some other ship into a temporary carrier design.
Imagine the darts and bombers being carried into battle by converted Marauders.
YEEESSSS
Lathrix: I cut out the laser system because it was too expensive :(
Also Lathrix: *adds missile interceptor system*
Some habits die hard, it seems XD
The missile system costs 8k - The laser system cost over 30k.
The missile system's ammo use Isn't too high (300 ammo/sec when constantly on, which isn't always the case.) - The laser took 20k+ engine power which required larger engines which now I can remove to save a LOT in both fuel and engine cost.
The missile system is less than 100 volume total, the laser was over 900.
Old habits do die hard, but here I feel like It was the better choice and was cheaper in pretty much every way! Advanced cannons might have been another good choice, but space & cost also seems a bit high or at least on par with the missile system but not as easy to armour up.
...Wow that was a long answer, I'm not great at short replies It seems haha! ^_^
@@Lathland a lot of people want to see another ark series will you do it ??
@@Lathland I honestly feel you could make the missile interceptor system even cheaper, ammo-wise anyway, by taking away the "radar flares" and switching to small missiles, and then add a dedicated "radar decoy" medium missile launcher. That way you wouldn't "waste" ammo by having every missile act as a decoy, you'd shorten your interceptor reload times and you'd also pump out decoys faster than the current setup.
Lathland will you ever do an orbital cannon or just craft which stays in the space
aww jeez, I was mostly joking but now I feel dumb and also kinda mean
also holy shit senpai noticed me
3:07 "uh what's the word, sticky-outy, just there, wierd, potato. Onion."
My most favorite Lathrix quote of all time XD
Turn the smoke generators back on and call it...
Pippi Hellstocking
I approve
"Pippi Hellstocking" sends the blood of its victims directly to the Bloodgod...
Turn smoke's gravity up to make it heavy so it float downwards = evil tentacles D:
It supplies it's allies with ammo, and sends blood back to the hellish heavens. It giveth and it Taketh.
I really really liked the laser system. It looked fantastic, and in my opinion, the carrier should be a defensive bastion that can deny any enemy attacks while it's fighters/bombers pick apart the enemy.
You should make a bomber that builds and drops actual nukes
Or maybe one that shoots out loads of tiny kamikaze planes with nukes attached
@@LZ_ He tried that in another FTD campaign. He made a carrier which spawned these mosquito like nuke crafts (TestNukev3) which flew at the enemy and detonated on impact. He used them for a couple of episodes but then retired them because they were way too OP. If he does it again I imagine it would be the same result.
I truly thing Lathrix should build a “death orb”
Sorry I mean a “friendliness pellet”
Flowey?
Maybe
Let it launch giant crams that nuke a whole pl.... i mean love tubes that spread love and flowers
A giant glass cannon satellite orb that has a one-shot particle cannon!?
Ahem...
Pleasure ray
When you're a strong independent Dart, and in the words of the all knowing Lathrix, "Don't need no carrier"
(insert sassy finger snaps were applicable)
Lathrix, I'm glad you gave my opinion of paired releasing of craft a go; It certianly does look cooler. :D
I would recomend, a mixture of fast firing cannons so it still has to relay on the bombers to do the majority of the damage. As the cramms seams over kill
"We're the good guys! Look at our blood vortexes! That means we're good!"
Lathrix, probably
Hey Lathland, if you watch the video through 11:43 to 11:46, you can see that the CRAM cannon shells fired and the laser took out each one individually, you can see that because two lasers fired a little delayed and you can see that it hit two individual CRAM shots, so, therefore, the lasers shoot each CRAM shot individually and indeed not affected by explosions in the vicinity.
* Sorry about my wording, please tell me if I have anything wrong *
6:16 warp energies of Korn
The bow could be modified to represent a greek or roman battleship, to give it a more majestic or imperial feel.
no, just - just no.
@@LunarDivinity why not? You've seen the airships from atla, they look amazing!
I don't think the romans had battleships
I am pretty sure they had aquatic tanks instead.
Roman ships were just a means to have a land battle on the water, mad lads
Tmw you realize they filled up the colloseum with water on several occasions just so they could play battleship.
Anyone else remember the days of the Matriarch?
It's incredible how far this game has come
The ancient times of Custom Cannons and ugly wood beckons...
An F for E. Coli
Reaxxion Abyss yeah, the balance has changed soo much
Blake Hum3r would love to see that be retrofitted some day
ah the massive wooden dingies that used to be the ships, the good ol' days
I wanted to thank you Lathrix for inspiring me to play FtD. I've spent days and days on building a battlecruiser and it has just managed to beat an Alcazar 69% to 87% hp while being 70k cheaper! It doesn't have any propulsion, half the space on the inside is unused, the main turrets keep on getting rekt by a good cram cannon hit and I've built it sideways, but I haven't been that happy in *months*
1:27 Anti-Missile defense systems would work really well, and then you'd just have a conventional carrier escort and you'd be good
Call the ship the Broodmother.
It sends all of its children to ravage the enemy.
So is it just me or is the Name “the soap bar” beggining to Sound good or “the deadline soap bar”?
Edit: and wow thx for the 96 likes
Maybe the sud striker?
Antonio Sonntag oh ha thats also a good idea
The Super Soaper
So many good ideas it’s unbelievable
The Flying Brick
im genuinely impressed with the frequency of these videos. you inspired me to re-install... and after about two minutes looking around i gave up. this is the kind of game that will literally consume your life if you want to play even half way decently. i wonder where you find the time to play even though your life must be going on in the background
ua this game loves to eat your soul life and anything elts away but its worth it
Best series ever ! Please keep doing ftd as much as you can ! You're a great youtuber !
Lathrix: "I don't want to go over 20,000 volume."
Me *looks at my battleship*
6:10 that just makes it look like it's being powered by dark matter. That is red 🙃 just imagine it covered in red sheild that is slightly visable and smoke coming out the back.
The power-to-effect ratio on the shields grows rapidly, so 2 strength 5 shields on top of each other will be almost as protective as 1 strength 10 while consuming way less power
Blue (or red) smoke olong the bottom at the front so it looks like it's sailing through it, that would looks awesome :O
Attempt 3: Talk to aavak and do an avorion versus series. Lathrixian Legion versus Aavak's Dapperlings multiplayer server territory conquest with blood for none other than the blood god
Yes. Just yes. I don't even know who Aavak is but Lathrix faffing about with someone equally mad sounds awesome.
@@giarnovanzeijl399 Aavak is someone lathrix used to do stuff with, idk if they are still friends, but both are welsh and can listen to both of them for hours. It can easily be a lathrix aavak co op campaign or a lathrix +subs versus aavak + subs multiplayer server
As much as I want this, I got to go pessimistic and say this isn’t going to happen, lath is a single player person. I really hope this happens but I doubt it
@@humanactivities5249 So do I, but as I said, I will post this on every single video until either it happens or he replies.
I second this
Lathrix: "I don't like how it looks."
Me: "Block is block!"
Can you make a single gunned boat that has a giant lazer to pierce armor and roast the insides of boats. Pretty much a death star
Lathrix, you could add a missile pod turret probably by adding some side-mounted platforms!
I think the spinal mounted crams were a good idea. Either that or something more mortar like since this is essentially just meant to sit at range and keep the craft fueled. Honestly I don't think the simple weaponry should even be in range to be used
I'm looking forward to seeing the interceptors in their element. They don't really attack heavily armoured vessels, so much as gently caress them.
Please re add the antimuntion lasers, it was fun to watch and can swat missiles to protect the darts as they pass
Call the Heavy bomber
“the angry Sea-slug”🌊 🐌
15:30 theyre tryin to intercept the enemy pilots face
Noice, more of my favorite stuff from the lathrix
Lath next thing you know is the rum comes in and suddenly the carrier has howitzers artillery on top
If you want to use anti missle cannon controller and you don't want to build a dedicated weapon for it you can instead use them on simple weapons (I believe all that have exploding shells work)
They are very good weapon against missles for their size
I wonder if you can program it so the craft try to dock back at the carrier and repair if they take too much damage
"the penguin is the penguin"
Penguin 100
This is why we love what you make :)
If your all in for 'shear armor' your going to LOVE ring shields.
Hey Lathland, I have a couple idea's for the aircraft carrier.
1.) Mount some Type L Casemated Gun's or Type L(E) Casemated Gun's on the side of the carrier so that if need be, the carrier can defend itself against ships while the aa guns focus on air born targets. And they would make sense due to in real life, some air craft carriers have used secondary guns to defend themselves. For example the "Essex-class aircraft carrier" used 12 × 5-inch (127 mm) /38 caliber guns (4 × 2 and 4 × 1) to protect it's self against ships.
2.) If you do use the missiles to defend the carrier against other missiles, you can probably use the large missile to deploy smaller missiles to intercept the incoming missiles.
"It looks like an ark" - Lathrix, 2020.
You just gave it a great name. Call it the Ark, especially because there's a Penguin on board.
I’d like to see a nearly pure defense satellite. Laser and shield, Way up in the sky. I don’t know what you’d do for offense, but the point is to never take damage.
If you never take damage, then eventually your enemies will run out of food (or in this case fuel and ammo), and you’ll win by default.
*@Lathland*
7:36 -ish. Would it be possible to put a shield projector on a kind of arm (like an industrial assembly robot) and have the arm aim the shield towards incoming projectiles?
Possibly angling the shield as much as possible so a bounce is most likely (given that individual projectiles position & trajectory can be detected?)
Maybe put a beam on a 2-axis turret, with another turret on it, with the shield on that, or something similar, so the movement & aiming is mostly automated (kind of the same system as the "mad squirrels?" use, if I'm not mistaken?).
Something I might suggest, Lathrix, is you should make it able to float in water. That way, if it somehow gets damaged enough to fall from the sky, but not so damaged that it's completely out of the fight, then it's not useless. While the darts on the side of it will be, the bombers would still be able to use it as a regular aircraft carrier.
You are right hah, it does look like an evil embedded metal Vikavolt on top.
At some point in the future, dediblades will require free space behind (and/or in front?), much like jets. There are three sizes of ducts in the build menu, which are currently just for aesthetics. But I think you should build around them to prevent all craft that rely on internal blades from dropping out of the sky
With the projectors, you could have ships named after patrons
I think everyone is going to say to name the heavy bomber some form of The Angry Potato now.
It seems Lathrix never lost his touch with lasers, which was quite good near the first end. Good to know, the huge lasers were always fun to watch (though extremely heavy artillery or particle cannons even more so).
imagine very powerful double layer shields that are connected to warning systems and only turn on for a brief moment when something is about to hit
20:00 just to mention, if all engines are on, it matters what percentage of power one is using, as using almost all the power of an engine while also using turbochargers is generally more efficient than low power carburettor ones, for fuel at least
The heavy bomber should be named the potato at this point
Its2 probably the thing you and most people I'm the comments refer to it as
Aww... You are removing the crams at the front... I liked them. They reminded me of the Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle movie.
The Carrier looked like a shark when it was damaged so name the carrier “megaladon”
Now all we need is a really huge Khorn logo on the bottom!
I’m sure it will be very effective at giving the Darts something to crash into when being deployed.
“We are the good guys.”
In reference to having to remove wood blocks. Isn’t there a block that is half wood on the top and metal on the bottom? Or are you already using it?
I think it may be a good idea to keep the LAMS focused mainly on cram, leaving the missiles to the guns and flares
You should make a CRAM *mortar* bomber.
Also, the Soap Bar CRAMS seem not to have altitude fuses.
On a sidenote, the mortar bomber could be a high altitude bomber, to make even more use of the homing, but that's just a sidenote, so I didn't include it in the main comment.
I'm a simple man. I see one side of the planes called ACE and know they are the real deal. The other side, they're disposable.
Star Wars TIE Fighters in a nutshell
DAKA cannons for the carrier lots of weak shells launched in a wall of lead
@Lathland, I think having a carrier with only defensive weapons make more sense than adding more (costly) weapons. Ideally you would use a fleet of them. And the airplanes are the true weapon. If you want more powerful weapons in the future, you can always retrofit the planes. Maybe some laser interceptor planes? who knows.
I really like the anti-projectile lasers. Perhaps to limit energy consumption, have one laser on each side set to max power/range using primarily huge initial energy storage with a very low recharge rate and add more lasers set to max power with a much lower range that also use large initial energy storage systems but also have a much faster recharge rate. That way, the long range ones will be able to stop initial volleys and occasionally help out as the battles continue while the short range ones will pick up the slack when the first set gets energy starved, but won't consume as much energy since their range is much shorter.
I like that the letters on the wings of your starboard side bombers spell out "ACE"
I'm so freaking excited to see the carrier in campaign battles! I still feel like you should have a bomber dropping those swarm missile type warheads for some proper carpet bombing / mine laying, but these models definitely punch some holes.
What if you put cruise missles on the carrier with a massive delay so they won’t fire until atleast one of the bombers have shot.
How do you feel about a max gauge railgun? Like design the craft around the gun-level railgun?
Something you could do is build catapults like on US carriers using tractor beams on a number of pistons and have them extend quickly
i love the smoke, it makes it look like it's running on the blood of it's enemies, or it has kind of a cape, one of the two, either is good.
Wow i loved that lasers system! Please do a strong laser system! So this ship can be something that changes the tide of a battle by constantly suppressing the enemies while the aircraft chip health points away from them.
The lasers looked nice, but I'd say an assortment of point-defense cannons (advanced or simple) around the perimeter of the hull will do any adequate job of keeping missiles and aircraft at bay.
lathrix, you should make a massive bomber plane, like it is a bit on the slow side, and flies high, but when it drops its payload it hurts. you could do like one absolutely massive cram shell, several small cram, or even do a bomb with the large missles, so that it is like the fat man.
I wonder if you could fit 4 bombers on the top by putting a tractor beam on either side at the front and back
The other day when you were talking about the vehicle looking like a penguin alls I could think was a sub vehicle penguin sub flopping off as well.
Why not use the repair module?
Have the shields defend the engines only.
6:20
being high, I was mesmerized by this for a good 5 minutes.
Other thoughts
Helium got a boost some time back. Using it in any large empty spaces should reduce fuel consumption a little. Not much, but it's cheap.
The ring shields should be good for this: they provide a direct bonus to AC in one axis. Great for ships that point an armour-blob at the enemy.
Is it possible for the shots from the darts guns to hit the bombers shots?
Another lovely episode of ftd, thank you lath
I think the carrier should be called the behemoth and the "deadly bar of soap" should be the "deadline"
You could call your heavy bomber the “Tater Tot”, because it looks like one but with pointy wings 😎👍👍 carrier is definitely coming along😎👍👍 Thanks for sharing Lathland 😎👍👍
This is starting to look like a Flying Imperial Japanese Carrier.
i think a good way to fill the sides of the carrier while not useing alot of mass is have week shield's covering them just enough to protect from small shells but nothing large, kinda like a star wars thing with the planes floating back in after a fight and poping out when a fight starts just a thing is theirs any power left for it and or mass. More of a looks thing tho.
I am 100% sure that this thing alone can ace the campain.
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Name the large bomber the Javelin aka an oversized dart.
Honestly think you should use the anti munition laser, just reduce its size by 50%
I think you should still use shields but only to cover the dart docking stations to make it look like their not just sticking out, and it will add a little protection to the more fragile middle. But hey, your carrier still looks amazing.
Watching the planes dock is super satisfying
You should name the heavy bomber the heavy potato. And add little eyes to the penguin, by coloring the area around a chosen point black and having little red eyes
Could you put smoke generators on the fighters to color code them? Should be more visible than the hologram generator from a distance?