champagne posting posted:

Be the change you want tot see in the world

Maybe another tab on the existing sheet

cock hero flux posted:

i might get flak for saying this but there's really only 3 weapons worth using in actual fights.

these are the good guns:
37mm chainguns are excellent for shooting down incoming enemy missiles and shredding unarmoured targets. If you have several of them they can also shoot down incoming artillery, and with incendiary ammo even a quick burst can instantly ruin small ships. They're cheap in both cost and ammo/power requirements and you can mount loads of them. These are the best defensive tool and a decent offensive one.
130mm guns are great for small Lightning style fighters. They hit hard without having bad ammo or power requirements, and they rotate fast enough to keep up with a nimble ship's movements.
Double 180mm guns hit extremely hard and are excellent for tearing apart large targets. With proxy shells or careful aim they'll ruin small targets as well, and their AP shells can instakill enemy cruisers if they hit the right spot. They rotate pretty slowly and have fairly steep ammo and power requirements so you can't put them on speedy ships, but these are the ideal primary armament for a Brick.

everything else:
57mm guns are the cheapest for a reason: they shoot too slowly to act as point defence but aren't big enough to actually hurt anything.
100mm guns aren't terrible but have the same ammo requirements as 130mm guns and aren't as good, so you might as well just use 130mms.
Single 180mm guns take up the same space as Doubles and almost as much power, so you might as well use Doubles.
Hextuple 180mm guns are extremely impressive but impractical. They're ridiculously expensive and need to be mounted on Large Hull segments, which are far heavier than just mounting the equivalent amount of regular hull parts for some reason. For less space, weight, and price you can easily mount 3 Doubles and the requisite amount of ammo and power modules.
Rocket launchers aren't very good, they're expensive and their rockets can easily be shot down or avoided by enemies. And unlike artillery, the AI actually does try to shoot these down.

Zenith missiles are terrible on large ships, since they require gaps in the armour to fire out of, are expensive and single use, can easily be shot off and aren't that much more impressive than a salvo from a 180mm gun. Large ships also struggle to actually reach a good firing position for them. Zenith missiles could be of some use on small ships, but your smaller ships really shouldn't be fighting anything that would require them too often, and the money you spend on them would be better spent on AP ammo(which can't get shot off in combat and rendered useless, and which can be devastatingly powerful). Nadir missiles I haven't played around with too much because you can't use them in the shipworks editor.

Sprint AA missiles are kind of useless in combat. They, again, require gaps in the armour of large ships, which is never good, and small ships can just avoid missiles anyway. You're far better served by just mounting chainguns for missile and plane defence. They are very good for defending against cruise missiles and long range aircraft attacks, though, since your small ships are grounded and can't just avoid them. Having a few of these on a backline ship for missile defence purposes is probably good, but you shouldn't use them in an actual fight.

Bombs have to be on small ships, since big ones aren't nearly agile enough to use them. Bombs also have to be mounted on the outside to be used, and explode like ammo magazines if they get hit. This is bad. Taking a hit to the bomb bay is immediate death, and I don't find them nearly impressive enough to be worth the risk.

Night10194 posted:

Merchants are the most dangerous fuckers in all of Gerat. There is nothing that spots me more than merchants. Even sending a loving Lightning at them, when I know they're there from IR and can hit them the instant they spot me, they still get off a message.

HookedOnChthonics posted:

Night10194 posted:

Oh boy. I should have known there'd be more to this than taking Khiva. Pyotr, you loving idiot, first you murder Daud, now this!? Pointing Russian Man, you should be pointing to yourself as the Worst.

ughhhh posted:

Other than the flagship which seems to be meant for modifying, are there other stock ships in the campaign people like to mod to extend it's usefulness?

Lightning seems to be perfect as it is and any changes I make seem to make ruins it's best qualities...

Bug Squash posted:

That's the pro-strat, as the Sevastopol should ideally never see combat and all that armour turns it into a slow gas guzzler. Some people like to turn it into a missile+aircraft carrier, but I just turn it into a giant unarmoured tanker bristling with sensors and antiair equipment.

For new players, the Sevastopol is great to knock out a Strike Fleet that you couldn't handle otherwise. It may be a inefficient dinosaur, but a trex is still going to obliterate almost anything else. Until you have a something like an upgunned gladiator or archangel to handle heavy threats, you should probably keep it gunned.

Definitely get rid of the ammo cache next to the bridge before it kills you, and move the giant gun that has a really crap firing arc. And definitely use mini fleets of lightings and skylarks to actually capture cities. They can take a city before the alarm goes off, with generally little damage, and you'll do twice as many captures, and at many times the speed of doing it with the main fleet.