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I have made many triangles in my time playing. The earliest ones I've made go back to the triangle meta period, my building skills and understanding dramatically increased during that time. My first triangle was inspired by one of Equalizer's laser and missile hybrid triangles, and I have always liked building them since.
There are multiple spurts of triangle building that I've had, the first being during the meta, the second for the GiF mod, and the third recently.
If you would like to see more of my ship designs just say so and I might consider doing another post.
Note: Please do not claim these ships as your own, or otherwise post them without giving the proper credit, doing so would be in violation of rule 14 of this forum. This also applies to multiplayer, please do not use these ships in multiplayer without crediting me.
Triangle Meta
7riangulator
7riangulator was my first ever triangle, inspired by one of Equalizer's. It did well in multiplayer for a while but lost to other pure laser triangles that had a good amount of PD.
7riangulator 2
An upgraded version of the 7riangulator, it got rid of the 2 side thruster modules for 1 bigger middle module that included a similar amount of thrusters. These cost savings allowed me to add more armor and thrust all over, as well as another control room.
Triangulator 1.5mill
A 1.5 million credit version, more of everything.
1ancer
1ancer was my first 500k triangle and also my first one using only lasers and eb, no missiles. It turned out to be very good against other 500k ships since speed hadn't become important yet.
7riant
7riant was my first 1mill laser-only (and eb) triangle, it could beat other 1mill laser triangles its cost due to its well-armored laser modules.
X-Force
X-Force was a forward-facing laser and cannon hybrid triangle with a railgun in the middle. It had a very weak back but good turning and decent speed due to the boost thrusters and the position of the engine rooms. This triangle later inspired a number of forward facing V designs.
4rrow Head
My first triangle using heavy lasers after they were added.
Galaxy in Flames mod
Deserter
Deserter was the first successful cannon triangle I can remember making, it used missiles in between the modules like my earlier laser ones. I updated it with flak and new missile ratios when those updates came out.
Golden Tip
Golden Tip was a decently good laser triangle that I submitted to GiF, not much more to say.
Mint Chip
Mint Chip was a heavy laser triangle made after the flak update that I used in casual MP matches, I later ended up submitting it to GiF. It requires different targets for each of the sides of weapons or else the lasers will hit the other lasers next to them and halve the firepower, this problem was fixed on my newer HL triangles.
"Recently" made
Thorn
Thorn started as an experiment for a 1-sided laser triangle that I added missiles to later. When needed Thorn can turn to the side to protect its lasers with the front armor which turns it into a 1-sided missile barge for a short time. The combo of missiles and lasers makes Thorn a good all-rounder for casual MP games.
Cres
Cres was my attempt at making a decent traditional HL triangle at 1.5mill after not having built one for a while.
Cheddar
Cheddar was a simple 1mill cannon triangle for use in MP against newer players.
I've made some more triangles recently that you can find on the Excelsior discord server but that I will not be posting here. I hope you have enjoyed seeing the progression of my triangle building skills.
All of the images above are .ship files so you are free to drag them into your creative game if you want to look at them or test against them.
