5 Tips for Campaign Starter Craft! 🖐🛶 From the Depths

[@mattginsburg3511]

A big piece of advice is to use hot-block targeting - a lot of stronger craft are designed so that's less of an issue, but not much under 200k for any faction has a big counter to hot-block targeting

[@Aerynolae]

I'm new to the game, around 40 hrs in. Been watching people play this since Robbaz's foray with it several yrs back. I get lost watching my first APS cannon and missile system blow up small crafts, but I still have no idea how sturdy I should make my starter ships, and I'm still trying to get my head around on how to make them go beyond 10 m/s. Hopefully I could create a worthwhile ship (at least in newbie standards) that can circle around a Marauder's side. Thank you for the tips!

[@BorderWise12]

You're welcome! Happy building! :)

[@TheNeilBlack]

You should make your ship sturdy enough to survive the enemies it's meant to fight. Learning how sturdy this is requires experience and a lot of testing. So keep building and you'll get there.

[@friendlyspacedragon7250]

Don't underestimate wood for a cheap early craft! It's a great source for cheap hitpoints and can help your craft float. Cheap to repair too.
You don't want an all-wood craft but adding one layer of metal and four wood is cheaper than two layers of metal and/or alloy. And if you're starting with the default easy DWG campaign, three wood layers alone should stop at least one hit from most targets you encounter early on.

[@comet.x]

remember that material wise 2m of metal is equivevelent to 20m of wood wedge

[@puppylovera]

I like using PT boats (patrol torpedo) and airplanes. They are fast and can just spam and overwhelm an enemy ship

[@bjboss1119]

Another tip i find helpful is keep it small, as that keeps the cost down.
Might just be my personal obsession with the perfect tetris though

[@BorderWise12]

Yup, small is good for starters. Cheaper, and harder to hit. :D

[@alexhail9971]

Finally cheep and effective starter craft

[@agustinyavar525]

awesome!! I'd like to see more beginner friendly content

[@werdnanesral7536]

Yes!!!! Omg i can't wait i need this so bad

[@spacedvenus]

my first time being on a patreon screen!! also this is the exact kind of video I've been needing

[@BorderWise12]

Yay! :D

[@Mernom]

Personally, I modified the vanilla jet fighter by giving it 2 medium missiles, and replacing it's basic machine guns with one of the bigger simple weapon configurable APS guns with a small HEAT shell. 4 of them work quite well even into the endgame, with some fire support from nastier stuff.
For your craft, I think the spinblock response that controls the main propulsion orientation is a bit too strong, when they point 90deg, it ends up being a sitting duck.... Unless that's intentional? suddenly losing speed like that is bound to throw off non homing attacks.

[@BorderWise12]

That is intentional, yes. Changing speeds suddenly throws off enemy targeting and means the craft can avoid running aground more easily.
Yes, I have finally gotten completely sick of ships trying to evolve onto land. XD

[@nobunagaoda8439]

My starter craft is a hovercraft for 60k with 8 diff guns. Can one shot stuff for... even 120k cost

[@BorderWise12]

DIF guns are good for starters, true! Cheap, compact alpha-strike. 👍

[@nobunagaoda8439]

@@BorderWise12 altho if target is not dead in 5 volleys somehow... well it will be 5 long minutes, or death

[@spacedvenus]

I'm very noob... what's a diff gun?

[@epicbunny2969]

⁠@@spacedvenusI know this is like 3 months late but a DIF gun stands for direct input fed, they are aps with the no auto loaders and have the ammo feeder on the firing piece, they get 5 shot (if you use 4 sides of the firing piece for ammo feeders) until they take a very long time to reload but they can have 500mm 10m shells. I hope this is helpful even if it’s late

[@DewthWish]

Can we see an in-depth construction of this craft?

[@GamernetsLP]

how did you make the rotating / vectored propellers?

[@BorderWise12]

Spinblocks! You can set them to rotate in response to yaw commands, or any other propulsion command really.

[@GamernetsLP]

@@BorderWise12 Huh. But don't those props need steam or something? Or did they get retextured?

[@DrrZed]

>It must be able to handle enemy Godly designs
Plunderer is a 'hard' design.
Can your Explorer beat Abactor/Brigand/Crossbones/Ransack 1 on 1?