Hey, Lathrix, if you don't already know, you can use a special transmitter, the "inter vehicle transmitter" to share detection with any other craft on the same channel. So, you can put detection equipment on the carrier and forget the problem of fitting detection equipment on the aircrafts
That’s honestly one of the most useful things in the game, at least for me. On my fleet I give my fighters one block of fuel and no detection equipment. Then I have a larger ship with detection equipment and a refinery capable of supporting my fleet.
Lol yeah, even after 500+ hours I never managed to build a functional carrier. But honestly the main problem is the limited spawns per vehicle spawner.
For the carrier mechanics themselves, there are a couple of clever things that ive found you can do. Mainly when it come to refilling fuel/ammo, a problem is that the refill range really isnt very long, so in normal fights where your carrier would stay 1000ish meters away from the fight, the fighters would just run out of fuel/ammo and be unable to refill. Now while there isnt a way to explicitly tell the ai to go back to the mothership to refill ammo, there is a semi-simple way of doing just that with just a control block and an ai breadboard on your aircraft, this will allow you to for example make heavy strike craft that only have enough ammo for one or two attacks, that just flies between the carrier and the target all the time to refill ammo. 1. set up a control block that outputs misc axis A when fuel/ammo/health is low. 2. set up an ai breadboard that listens to misc axis A, when misc axis A is 1, you set it up to keep the yaw between you and your mothership to 0 with the help of a pid element, also set it to keep forwards velocity to max and altitude to whatever you want. What this will do, is on a specified condition(for example fuel running low) this ai breadboard will overwrite the planes ai, and force it back to the carrier until its in range for a refuel, as soon as the refuel is done, the control block wouldnt output true anymore, and the ai would take back over. I believe you could also use a similar setup to tell your planes to physically fly back to your carrier, and dock with the docking stations once its very close, rather than slowly being grabbed from kilometers away cheers :D
also: if when you do this, your plane flies in a quirky way, you might want to add roll stabilization to the breadboard, and add a control block that turns the mainframe into "weapons only" while this is active
Perhaps a mix of both versions, with a slight preference to the simple weapons Variant. that way you have a mix of weapons that have nice dog fights, and weapons that make explosions. Perhaps a 2 to 1 ratio of Guns to Missiles.
With that, he could also add one with torpedoes, so he could get that kind of damage as well. The squad of 6 could be 2 missile darts, 3 simple weapons, and 1 torpedo launcher -- just for a variety.
I guess that a single rocket that really packs a punch paired with a few simple weapons would be effective against many targets and could still be rather cheap! And should look quite awesome :)
@@blockstacker5614 Yes, I've done it. So long as you have detection and fins it'll guide itself to the target. You have to fiddle with the launch timing a bit but it's very doable. That said, Cram bombers are a lot more effective in every way excluding volume.
5:00 If you're contunuing with the Blood God theme, Mosquito would be quite accurate. It's small, it flies, it collects blood, and is generally annoying (but not really dangerous) to anything big.
@@scair7331 Well, malaria has killed 51 billion people, but there is nothing that could act as malaria in FTD, (As far as I can tell.) so this mosquito isn't that deadly. Edit: Yeah, the EMP missiles could be the malaria.
Lathrix: I decided to make the missiles a bit stronger Me: *sees how much damage they do* Are you sure it was a “bit”? XD Also, I kinda like both to be honest, having a group of like 2 missile Dart’s and like 4+ of the other variant in a group could be interesting in dogfights. Or maybe the Dart’s that go farther out could use missiles
"Should the aircraft carrier be a boat or an aircraft? No submarines though." Make an orbital drop carrier!! It stays in space and drops the airplanes into the atmosphere.
I think you should use one missile dart in a set with in a Set of Six having all the rest be the simple weapon ones in order to Grant a little bit more and make these crafts much more usable later in the game
I think you should use one missile dart in a set, within a set, of six, having all the rest be the simple weapon ones, in order to grant a little bit more, and make these crafts much more usable later in the game.
I think the carrier should be an airship because: A: it would look nice B: I would like to see how that would turn out C: they could be launched from the underside, which would look cool (especially if you include a similar system to the large missile deployment thing from the abomination). And D: To defend from torpedoes Also a name for the darts: the flesh hounds (best if you still have the Khorne theme) reason being that they look cool, do little damage, are generally annoying, pretty simple and the name "flesh hound" is an actual warhammer 40k model which generally are really similar to the planes if you exclude the fact that one is a plane with miniguns and the other one is a small, converted (probably fenrisian) wolf. Another idea is to remove all weapons on one plane and have that plane only ferry fuel and ammo to the other planes or give it only repair tentacles and heal the other planes or everything on the battlefield, don't know how that would work but I like the idea of both, maybe have two additional planes, one for each suggested role.
You are objectively right on all counts but I still want a traditional carrier because I think they're the coolest lol @@general.catallion_8054 That's too perfect
Hell, he said he'd try bombers next, it'd be interesting to see him try and implement irl style bombers, like dive bombers or no guidance torpedo bombers. Mix some of those in and it'd be pretty neat.
Yes, you can share ammo with a carrier; it's actually a really great way to keep CRAM bombers less bulky, you just keep an ammo box or two on the bombers while having the carrier guard all the ammo under meters of armor.
"we can always just build up the metal so it looks like its being held properly" or, use decoys so they do not collide with what is "holding" them up. also i really liked how it looked around 6:00 without wings, really took the name Dart literally.
I'll be honest, I preferred the version of this fighter that had those "pods" on the ends of its wings. It might not be realistic, but it looked damn good.
F4 is the Phantom, the F-5 is the Tiger (or Freedom Fighter, F-20 is Tigershark) but I agree, it did have a bit of an F-5 look. Initially it reminded me of the P-80 or F-84. The F-89 also had massive wing tip pods that fired rockets. My personal favorite aircraft with wing tip pods was the F-104 Starfighter. One of the hottest looking aircraft ever imo.
Reaaaaaaly like the mimic wings! You should use them more often. Maybe even for other stuff. Maybe you could even make a small Khorne symbol. Edit: Use the cannons for the Darts, but make some kind of similar craft with missiles, maybe some kind of command plane or something?
The fighters look amazing! I wonder if it would be possible to place the fighters on the sides of a carrier... I've never played FtD (computer can't handle it) but I think it would look interesting. Perhaps call the carrier "Hive"?
I was thinking he could build a flying carrier with the drones tucked away inside of the underbelly of the ship. When the drones are in range, the bottom plates of the ship will retract, unleashing the swarm!
Mimics pretty much allow you to make any block look like anything they are pure aesthetic but make things look nice as it mimics a block of your choice
Here’s a concept idea A flyer that has cram cannons and it flies pretty high up and when it’s within like a hundred meters it dive bombs and unleashes salvos of cram shell after cram shell through the deck of the ship Kind of like mortars but probably cheaper,quicker,and cooler
I made a flyer like that before. It was a tiny bomber that would fly 20m over the target and drop shells on top of it. The only problem with that kind of design is that the shells have god-awful accuracy.
You could do two separate designs; one using the original version of the dart and the other using the renovated version of it. You could use the two designs for different roles as well, such as the original being for a more ground attacker and the renovated being fitted for air superiority. Just a thought though.
Airship with Light Missiles, Gatling Flak(The Darts gats) and the 3.7" AA Gun I think would be fun. It would keep with the same theme as the fliers weapon wise.
How about you make three Darts with the Simple weapon and two Rocket ones? Or maybe even have five with simple weapons and two with Rockets extra to be launched separately? Like: "Are the small flyers? No? Is there a big bad thing in front? jup? Rockets GO!" ;D Duno if that is doable tho.
I would go with a seaborne carrier. It makes more sense fluff wise and just looks cooler I think. The airborne carrier giving hight advantage isnt that important considering the speed of the Dart (meaning it is up quite high quite quickly anyway). Alsoit would probalbly be cheaper than the airborn version and since its supposed to be a support craft that makes more sense too. If you want to do something fluffy you could give the carrier a lot of aa guns an use the planes for the anti tank/ship damage. Maybe in the form of (Cram) bomber planes or missile helicopters. The Idea with the Inter-Vehicle-Transmitter someone aleready gave is great. You can combine that with detection on the carrier or something in the style of a scout plane/helicopter (again probably more fluff than cost effective). Amongst other things you could utilize the Sonar-boys for that pourpose. P.S.I love your videos, especially FtD. Made me buy that game and get back to it constantly.
I vote helicarrier! Also I would love it if you called them Mosquitoes. It would really fit with the blood God theme. I think you should do the carrier next, maybe divide it into multiple launch decks so that it can field a full complement of fighters while also having space for one or two larger craft (I was thinking something like a single larger hanger that could hold a gunship, bomber, or more fighters). That way you could design and put in more advanced aircraft without having to change the carrier too much.
Hey Lathrix, I was wondering if you could post your vehicles to the workshop or just go over the AI at the end of your builds! Just mostly because I cannot do AI's for the life of me lol
I like the idea that's already been suggested a few times of 4 or so of the simple weapons Dart variant then 2 per squadron with the missiles. As cool as airships are, I think we keep the carrier as cheap and simple as possible and have it as a normal ship that just stays out of range of combat to rearm, refuel and repair the Darts. As for the design of the Darts, I quite like both variants. As for the name, calling them Thorns (from the last video's comments) seems to fit nicely.
how about wasps for the name and the carrier is called the hive because as you said they do little damage on there own but if you get a big swarm well its death by 10000 cuts edgy takes on the name blood wasp killer bees dart wasp red jacket( instead of yellow jacket)
I believe that having a mix of variants will make the carrier more effective. For instance, is you can spawn six Darts, have two spawned be missile, 4 be simple weapons
aircraft carrier should be a ship, generic yes but you don't really make large carrier ships, strangely enough you make more airship carriers also I like the bulky wing tips ;(
You should try to shoot a ball of spinning Rams in From The Depths please see this and consider it or at least mention why you won't. Love your videos ;)
Instead of a normal carrier have you thought of making a submarine which double as a carrier. Also it would be cool instead of haveing a large ship that had missiles and torpedoes instead make a small and fast gun boat intended to hit the enemy ships with powerful missiles and torpedoes as fast as it can whilst being hard to hit. And a bomber would be cool that drops missile that don't have any propulsion but split into lots of small bombs that do a lot of explosive damage
Make an aircraft carrier an aircraft makes no sense in my opinion, a boat that cary's planes is always a logic idea (Increases the range of the plane / mobile base like in real life) ... or an airship that carries boats :D A reverse carrier Multiple smal planes that carry an bigger ship
Try this as the name: the Khorn Dog? So that way your flyers are all name related, by food. So you have the Khorn flake then its younger brother: the khorn dog
Make the wings a delta wing. Like the delta dart or the mirage. The wings could look really good and remain small and you could store them staggered and fit them on the deck supper tight
You should make a dart submersible By that I mean you make it so that it launches from the carrier and then dives into the water You could make it a torpedo launcher or a kamikaze torpedo itself
Might be a fun idea if the campaign is set aroun a lathrixian carrier group centered around one super carrier that builds the other capital ships and harvests resources augmented by armored carriers to carry heavy aircraft and take hits, escorts to add gun and cruise missile support, and support carriers to spawn fighters and create flak fields.
The mimics look way better. Both versions are good but the rockets are more of a alpha strike version and the other more like dogfighters Would it be possible that the carrier can use the laser and the rocket can lock on to these ?
Resource gain is significantly quicker than it was back in your last campaign. While 3k for a cheapo craft might sound like a lot, your starting materials are somewhere around 40k now (if you rebuild your fortress). So in terms of cost, 5k is practically nothing for what amounts to an enormous upgrade in effective firepower.
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When he said "Strawberry" at the end of the countdown, I had to rewind. I thought I was losing my mind XD
What do you mean? He didn't say strawberry at all
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Strawberry.
hmm thought something sounded off
@Marionette Loves Gaming around 16:25
Ship name idea?
Hey, Lathrix, if you don't already know, you can use a special transmitter, the "inter vehicle transmitter" to share detection with any other craft on the same channel. So, you can put detection equipment on the carrier and forget the problem of fitting detection equipment on the aircrafts
Or build a special detection only plane like an E-2 if you wanted to... or keep it on the ship you know. Make things simple.
That's what I was gonna suggest :P.
Carrer with radar/sonar booies or something might work.
That’s honestly one of the most useful things in the game, at least for me. On my fleet I give my fighters one block of fuel and no detection equipment. Then I have a larger ship with detection equipment and a refinery capable of supporting my fleet.
@Auburn Aggie 88 yes
"testing carrier mechanics"
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Lol yeah, even after 500+ hours I never managed to build a functional carrier.
But honestly the main problem is the limited spawns per vehicle spawner.
ILIAD 700 hours and still can’t do AI
@@cephy8102 no really you just need the repair tentacles and you can build it from the vehicle projeter
For the carrier mechanics themselves, there are a couple of clever things that ive found you can do.
Mainly when it come to refilling fuel/ammo, a problem is that the refill range really isnt very long, so in normal fights where your carrier would stay 1000ish meters away from the fight, the fighters would just run out of fuel/ammo and be unable to refill. Now while there isnt a way to explicitly tell the ai to go back to the mothership to refill ammo, there is a semi-simple way of doing just that with just a control block and an ai breadboard on your aircraft, this will allow you to for example make heavy strike craft that only have enough ammo for one or two attacks, that just flies between the carrier and the target all the time to refill ammo.
1. set up a control block that outputs misc axis A when fuel/ammo/health is low.
2. set up an ai breadboard that listens to misc axis A, when misc axis A is 1, you set it up to keep the yaw between you and your mothership to 0 with the help of a pid element, also set it to keep forwards velocity to max and altitude to whatever you want.
What this will do, is on a specified condition(for example fuel running low) this ai breadboard will overwrite the planes ai, and force it back to the carrier until its in range for a refuel, as soon as the refuel is done, the control block wouldnt output true anymore, and the ai would take back over.
I believe you could also use a similar setup to tell your planes to physically fly back to your carrier, and dock with the docking stations once its very close, rather than slowly being grabbed from kilometers away
cheers :D
also: if when you do this, your plane flies in a quirky way, you might want to add roll stabilization to the breadboard, and add a control block that turns the mainframe into "weapons only" while this is active
Big brain time
Tip that i learned from the forums, adding material containers increases sharing range, the more the bigger the radius
galaxy brain strats
Didn't read this but I appreciate it
Perhaps a mix of both versions, with a slight preference to the simple weapons Variant. that way you have a mix of weapons that have nice dog fights, and weapons that make explosions. Perhaps a 2 to 1 ratio of Guns to Missiles.
With that, he could also add one with torpedoes, so he could get that kind of damage as well. The squad of 6 could be 2 missile darts, 3 simple weapons, and 1 torpedo launcher -- just for a variety.
I greatly prefer the simple weapons one because it’s far more unique and fun
I guess that a single rocket that really packs a punch paired with a few simple weapons would be effective against many targets and could still be rather cheap! And should look quite awesome :)
is it possible to make a guided bomb by having no engine or fuel on a missile? more space for warheads.
@@blockstacker5614 Yes, I've done it. So long as you have detection and fins it'll guide itself to the target. You have to fiddle with the launch timing a bit but it's very doable.
That said, Cram bombers are a lot more effective in every way excluding volume.
5:00
If you're contunuing with the Blood God theme, Mosquito would be quite accurate.
It's small, it flies, it collects blood, and is generally annoying (but not really dangerous) to anything big.
Actually they can be very deadly with the infections they carry. Blood god would approve.
@@scair7331 then it continues to plague people with lathrixian pride
@@scair7331 agreed
@@scair7331
Well, malaria has killed 51 billion people, but there is nothing that could act as malaria in FTD, (As far as I can tell.) so this mosquito isn't that deadly.
Edit: Yeah, the EMP missiles could be the malaria.
@@scair7331 NURGLE! The god of plaques!
Lathrix: I decided to make the missiles a bit stronger
Me: *sees how much damage they do* Are you sure it was a “bit”? XD
Also, I kinda like both to be honest, having a group of like 2 missile Dart’s and like 4+ of the other variant in a group could be interesting in dogfights. Or maybe the Dart’s that go farther out could use missiles
"Should the aircraft carrier be a boat or an aircraft? No submarines though."
Make an orbital drop carrier!! It stays in space and drops the airplanes into the atmosphere.
21:28 I don't think he said anything about submarines?
@@blizzard2508-k7n 22:24
Or just use the Abomination
@@blizzard2508-k7n after that at the very end he said he didn't want buld a sub. :( That said, I'm with the orbital launch platform
@@seanwarren9357 hecc
I think you should use one missile dart in a set with in a Set of Six having all the rest be the simple weapon ones in order to Grant a little bit more and make these crafts much more usable later in the game
Or a squad of 3 fighter darts, 2 Missile darts and one bomber, for max variety!
or just 1 wing be guns and the other missiles, or to be fair to most naval interceptors missiles under belly that drop fire!
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I think you should use one missile dart in a set, within a set, of six, having all the rest be the simple weapon ones, in order to grant a little bit more, and make these crafts much more usable later in the game.
honestly, I think the best layout would be 2 dart interceptors per 4 dart gunships.
Maybe it could be fun to give "personality" to the fighters: different colours, colour patterns, weapons... Maybe even different AI behaviour.
"Dependent on the carrier for their fuel"
Like a real aircraft carrier and its craft?
Likely was talking about their ability to resupply while the planes are in the air.
I think the carrier should be an airship because:
A: it would look nice
B: I would like to see how that would turn out
C: they could be launched from the underside, which would look cool (especially if you include a similar system to the large missile deployment thing from the abomination).
And
D: To defend from torpedoes
Also a name for the darts: the flesh hounds (best if you still have the Khorne theme) reason being that they look cool, do little damage, are generally annoying, pretty simple and the name "flesh hound" is an actual warhammer 40k model which generally are really similar to the planes if you exclude the fact that one is a plane with miniguns and the other one is a small, converted (probably fenrisian) wolf.
Another idea is to remove all weapons on one plane and have that plane only ferry fuel and ammo to the other planes or give it only repair tentacles and heal the other planes or everything on the battlefield, don't know how that would work but I like the idea of both, maybe have two additional planes, one for each suggested role.
I agree with all of this, i think the carrier should be named the dart board too since it is carrying darts!
@@general.catallion_8054 genius
Epic. Mid-air landing!!!
You are objectively right on all counts but I still want a traditional carrier because I think they're the coolest lol
@@general.catallion_8054 That's too perfect
@@general.catallion_8054 i heard him suggest a dart only carrier and thought the exact same thing lol, great name the dart board
The Carrier should be a "Ship-Ship" for now, maybe once you are taking on the harder factions change it over to an Airship. Opinions ahoy!
Why not one missile version per carrier wing and the rest of the wing is the simple weapons version
I'd do 4 simples and 2 missiles. In a SSMSSM release pattern.
Maybe do a mix of gun and missile planes on your carriers ?
Hell, he said he'd try bombers next, it'd be interesting to see him try and implement irl style bombers, like dive bombers or no guidance torpedo bombers. Mix some of those in and it'd be pretty neat.
@@weiss4855 flying fortresses?
@@langaming9956 nah, swordfish bro, B17s didnt take out the Bismarck
@@langaming9956 I could go for a spot of carpet bombing!
Yes, you can share ammo with a carrier; it's actually a really great way to keep CRAM bombers less bulky, you just keep an ammo box or two on the bombers while having the carrier guard all the ammo under meters of armor.
can't wait for the campaign!
"we can always just build up the metal so it looks like its being held properly" or, use decoys so they do not collide with what is "holding" them up.
also i really liked how it looked around 6:00 without wings, really took the name Dart literally.
I liked that as well.
I'll be honest, I preferred the version of this fighter that had those "pods" on the ends of its wings. It might not be realistic, but it looked damn good.
The pods remind me of some korean war era jets which had fuel pods on the wing tips.
There were real aircraft that used them. The F-84 comes to mind. I think that there were also some variants of the F-80 that had them as well?
@@raf74hawk12 it looks more like the F-5 phantoms
F4 is the Phantom, the F-5 is the Tiger (or Freedom Fighter, F-20 is Tigershark) but I agree, it did have a bit of an F-5 look. Initially it reminded me of the P-80 or F-84. The F-89 also had massive wing tip pods that fired rockets. My personal favorite aircraft with wing tip pods was the F-104 Starfighter. One of the hottest looking aircraft ever imo.
Dear lathrix,
In the future. can you show us how you configure the missiles and what you put in them?
kind regards.
-will
Bruh why do you gotta be so formal
But *will* you watch it tho?
Sorry, I'll leave now...
Yay, a FtD video. Love these videos!
(11:00) Can your carrier produce a mix of gun variants and missile variants? Can it later incorporate a "bomber" that attacks surface targets?
Reaaaaaaly like the mimic wings! You should use them more often. Maybe even for other stuff. Maybe you could even make a small Khorne symbol.
Edit: Use the cannons for the Darts, but make some kind of similar craft with missiles, maybe some kind of command plane or something?
The fighters look amazing!
I wonder if it would be possible to place the fighters on the sides of a carrier... I've never played FtD (computer can't handle it) but I think it would look interesting.
Perhaps call the carrier "Hive"?
I was thinking he could build a flying carrier with the drones tucked away inside of the underbelly of the ship. When the drones are in range, the bottom plates of the ship will retract, unleashing the swarm!
Yea the darts can be called the bees the new bomber can be the wasp or hornet.
Can you explain what mimics do, cause I and probably others too don't really know, since we didn't watch the first few seasons.
Mimics pretty much allow you to make any block look like anything they are pure aesthetic but make things look nice as it mimics a block of your choice
They're aesthetic blocks that you can change the size of and turn into any other block
weren't even in the first seasons.. they got added "recently"
Also mimic blocks didnt exist when Lathrix used to play, foT came a super long way since his FtD seasons.
@@hydrasup1038 could always watch his previous videos. They are quality watch of madness.
Here’s a concept idea
A flyer that has cram cannons and it flies pretty high up and when it’s within like a hundred meters it dive bombs and unleashes salvos of cram shell after cram shell through the deck of the ship
Kind of like mortars but probably cheaper,quicker,and cooler
I made a flyer like that before. It was a tiny bomber that would fly 20m over the target and drop shells on top of it. The only problem with that kind of design is that the shells have god-awful accuracy.
You could do two separate designs; one using the original version of the dart and the other using the renovated version of it. You could use the two designs for different roles as well, such as the original being for a more ground attacker and the renovated being fitted for air superiority. Just a thought though.
Airship with Light Missiles, Gatling Flak(The Darts gats) and the 3.7" AA Gun I think would be fun. It would keep with the same theme as the fliers weapon wise.
Use the simple weapon variant as a fighter and the missle variant as a strike craft/bomber.
simple weapon with a singular (or two) missile (that doesnt reload)?
I say use 3 simple weapons fighters with 1 rocket as its like a leader
I like the tail wings
But the normal wings looked cooler on the side (at least with the chunky side bits)
Make a machine that is named the demogorgon.
Reason: you named a fast small plane that is called DART.
STRANGER THINGS VIBES.
You should use like 2 with missiles and the rest have guns
How about you make three Darts with the Simple weapon and two Rocket ones? Or maybe even have five with simple weapons and two with Rockets extra to be launched separately? Like: "Are the small flyers? No? Is there a big bad thing in front? jup? Rockets GO!" ;D
Duno if that is doable tho.
I would go with a seaborne carrier. It makes more sense fluff wise and just looks cooler I think. The airborne carrier giving hight advantage isnt that important considering the speed of the Dart (meaning it is up quite high quite quickly anyway). Alsoit would probalbly be cheaper than the airborn version and since its supposed to be a support craft that makes more sense too.
If you want to do something fluffy you could give the carrier a lot of aa guns an use the planes for the anti tank/ship damage. Maybe in the form of (Cram) bomber planes or missile helicopters.
The Idea with the Inter-Vehicle-Transmitter someone aleready gave is great. You can combine that with detection on the carrier or something in the style of a scout plane/helicopter (again probably more fluff than cost effective). Amongst other things you could utilize the Sonar-boys for that pourpose.
P.S.I love your videos, especially FtD. Made me buy that game and get back to it constantly.
I vote helicarrier!
Also I would love it if you called them Mosquitoes. It would really fit with the blood God theme.
I think you should do the carrier next, maybe divide it into multiple launch decks so that it can field a full complement of fighters while also having space for one or two larger craft (I was thinking something like a single larger hanger that could hold a gunship, bomber, or more fighters). That way you could design and put in more advanced aircraft without having to change the carrier too much.
Hey Lathrix, I was wondering if you could post your vehicles to the workshop or just go over the AI at the end of your builds! Just mostly because I cannot do AI's for the life of me lol
I like the idea that's already been suggested a few times of 4 or so of the simple weapons Dart variant then 2 per squadron with the missiles. As cool as airships are, I think we keep the carrier as cheap and simple as possible and have it as a normal ship that just stays out of range of combat to rearm, refuel and repair the Darts.
As for the design of the Darts, I quite like both variants. As for the name, calling them Thorns (from the last video's comments) seems to fit nicely.
Uuuuh Lathland, i don't think "favorite" is a thing on UA-cam anymore. XD
Hope your mom and fiance are doing well! Don't get over work loaded. I know what that is like. Anyways, keep up the good work.
how about wasps for the name and the carrier is called the hive
because as you said they do little damage on there own but if you get a big swarm well its death by 10000 cuts
edgy takes on the name
blood wasp
killer bees
dart wasp
red jacket( instead of yellow jacket)
I believe that having a mix of variants will make the carrier more effective. For instance, is you can spawn six Darts, have two spawned be missile, 4 be simple weapons
hey @Lathland, consider turning up your master audio output? Even maxed out you don't equal the audio volume where most others are at half volume.
Carrier vs Airship
I think a post-WW2 Carrier sort of design (ship ship lol) would look really cool!
14:37 That made me think that it could be fun to make multiple squad of plane flying by 3 for exemple, like in real life?
aircraft carrier should be a ship, generic yes but you don't really make large carrier ships, strangely enough you make more airship carriers also I like the bulky wing tips ;(
You should use the missile version. 5000 materials really isnt anything these days, and the jump in effectiveness is worth it.
You should try to shoot a ball of spinning Rams in From The Depths please see this and consider it or at least mention why you won't. Love your videos ;)
Instead of a normal carrier have you thought of making a submarine which double as a carrier. Also it would be cool instead of haveing a large ship that had missiles and torpedoes instead make a small and fast gun boat intended to hit the enemy ships with powerful missiles and torpedoes as fast as it can whilst being hard to hit.
And a bomber would be cool that drops missile that don't have any propulsion but split into lots of small bombs that do a lot of explosive damage
Remember that you can use as an example 4 normal fighter and 2 rocket ones (they should help with biger targets)
Make an aircraft carrier an aircraft makes no sense in my opinion, a boat that cary's planes is always a logic idea (Increases the range of the plane / mobile base like in real life)
... or an airship that carries boats :D
A reverse carrier
Multiple smal planes that carry an bigger ship
Try this as the name: the Khorn Dog?
So that way your flyers are all name related, by food.
So you have the Khorn flake then its younger brother: the khorn dog
You should turn the Abomination into a flying aircraft carrier, like I said on that episode where you made the airship.
If possible I would mix the carrier's planes with some missile versions and some gun versions.
Make the wings a delta wing. Like the delta dart or the mirage. The wings could look really good and remain small and you could store them staggered and fit them on the deck supper tight
I would like a mix of both variants, missile and basic weapons. Maybe a little less missile planes...
You should make a dart submersible
By that I mean you make it so that it launches from the carrier and then dives into the water
You could make it a torpedo launcher or a kamikaze torpedo itself
Might be a fun idea if the campaign is set aroun a lathrixian carrier group centered around one super carrier that builds the other capital ships and harvests resources augmented by armored carriers to carry heavy aircraft and take hits, escorts to add gun and cruise missile support, and support carriers to spawn fighters and create flak fields.
I think you should have squadrons using mostly the simple weapons variant and one or two missile variant but that's just me
The mimics look way better.
Both versions are good but the rockets are more of a alpha strike version and the other more like dogfighters
Would it be possible that the carrier can use the laser and the rocket can lock on to these ?
I think you should have a mixed ratio of two simple weapon fighters for every one missle fighter so there is a good fleet balance
Carrier airships please.
And outfit every carrier with 1 or 2 Dart missile variants and have the rest of the fighters be Dart fighter variants.
What AI that you use on your darts? I had a problem with my aircraft in which they keep diving to the ocean every time they perform a bombing run...
In that case I think it’s because you don’t allow the aircraft to pitch, I think...
I believe the dart carrier should be a watercraft but the missile carrier be a hovercraft to support the missile attack ship.
How about the simple weapons and one missile? Just for garunteed damage
I think the dart would work well on a battlecarrier which uses the interceptors to cover for a lack of AA.
Curse you! You got me to play this game again and it is devouring my life? :D
You could put different colors on the tails of each plane. It would look 100 time cooler on the deck and in the air too !
Wow, this is the earliest I've ever caught 9mins. Another great video so far lathrix this has and continues to be my favourite series on UA-cam.
You should use both fighters and make the missile ones less common than the machine gun ones that way you have a nice mix
This is a series I want to see continued, how do you feel about the darts having a single large dumb missile that gets resupplied at the carrier?
I say you should make it a missile aircraft that launches of a carrier that refuels it an rearms it... and that had its own missile system
YOGSCAST Lathrix? Just a thought :3
Make so they deploy at an angle alternating - one to the left, one to the right...
And also a little faster deployment
I miss the old FtD before it got needlessly complicated.
I say use a mix of both. And maybe have a light v heavy carriers.
simple, add a single missile to the daka daka version
best of both worlds
Try a version with the larger calibre but slower fireoate auto cannon!
maybe have both in use. so you can have one or two missile jets, and a bunch of the cheep ones.
airship and make the bottom open a large bay where the darts drop straight down out of it
Blackhawk. name suggestion???
Lathrix: the one guy that got me into FTD.
I just made my first plane. It landed perfectly face first tail straight up into the air
Name the plans Cornells and the mother ship the Cobb
can you please call the carrier "The Dartboard"
Every time I try to replicate this ship it works for a while and then nosedives
*Bring the "Sparrows" And Hear their Sorrow*
I think lathrix should call it the popkhorne
Middle vs simple, why not both?
Have a mix between the two different planes
I prefer the missile variant, because I like damage, and explosions
"I like damage, and explosions" amen to that!
Idea you should name this thing the uss hive.
265th pus please play a campaign
I'd be all for mixing a few small magnet mine bombers in there. Just some variation
That would be for the main carrier, not the smaller ones
I really want to see a submarine carrier.
Pls make a ship that flies or swims under the target then rises up quickly and yeets the target into the air
If you did that
Did lathrix say strowbarry?
Resource gain is significantly quicker than it was back in your last campaign. While 3k for a cheapo craft might sound like a lot, your starting materials are somewhere around 40k now (if you rebuild your fortress). So in terms of cost, 5k is practically nothing for what amounts to an enormous upgrade in effective firepower.
You gotta go with the missile version of The Dart.
The damage on that thing make's it way more effective than the sipmle weapon's version.
Missiles all the way or a mix of them