Kamakazi builds, or using explosive parts as weapons themselves.

Hypertion

so i was wondering if you could make builds that use reactors or etc as weapons, by ramming and detonating..
i made this...
image https://i.imgur.com/KuzSYwy.png

seperated it into a swarm and tried it.

a single reactor was about the same as a missile, maybe a bit stronger... its fun, but you have to micro manage each ship to self destruct when it gets close...

so ya, in numbers they could do damage if they got close enough to detonate, which against wraith is pretty easy...

i decided to try a single giant build..
image https://i.imgur.com/XkU86AJ.png

but that did basically nothing as the lines kept blowing each other up and there was not enough close contact with the exploding reactors and the enemy...

so i tried making a giant Minefield creator ship..

image https://i.imgur.com/DP7EOi8.png

now this one.... was fun..

again i set the target as friendly untill i was ready to set off my bomb to see the potential...

first i seperated the reactor mines and started moving the ship with the collection of loose mines....

then... well look and see...

considering the main ship was able to get away to regenerate its supply of mines via repair... i would say that the mine laying has potential.

also, that crescent wraith was reuduced to rubble in one glorious EXPLOSIVE instant... i liked that one.

Got a now!

Teg

Hypertion Very cool idea. I tried it against easy AI:

image https://i.imgur.com/jkXMEYE.png
image https://i.imgur.com/xQX6cWN.png

But as you can see, the reactors blew too early, lol as I'm writing this I thought about wrapping them in armor. BRB with results.

Teg

Teg Well this ship keeps making Cosmoteer crash, I think it's because of the triangle armor colliding? Anyone else want to try it?
image https://i.imgur.com/g589Jg8.png
Just double click the triangle substructure to release the mines when the ship has good speed and direction.

Jabenyezaa

Yea i made and post on this and other people to its a really cool and funny idea because you can just defeat a ship in like 2 seconds for the fun of it lol

dieaready

I've thought about it and instead I have specific ships to do the job. Have yet to actually try them out though.

image https://i.imgur.com/BsoaHND.png

Armouring reactors isn't that great of an idea as even the triangle armour piece reduces the explosion damage by 75%. However putting them in front without shields is in the hope of them absorbing enough shots to destroy the armour to allow the explosion to get through.

image https://i.imgur.com/qP5DwFu.png

Next idea was to ram the enemy ship using shields to absorb the incoming rounds and then stay in place on their hull, so I thought why not add an ion beam which should be behind their shields when rammed into place, which would eventually cut the enemy ship in half. Either way the enemy ship is doomed.

image https://i.imgur.com/MXh0Y23.png

This is an extension of the previous design but this time designed to approach from the side/rear and stay in place for a longer period of time and hold off incoming enemy fire from the outside. Biggest issue I've found is having it stay on the enemy ship as smallish ships still have enough manoeuvrability to spin and toss it off after awhile (which the AI actually does as it tries to target it). I've thought about using two or more of them to hold the enemy ship in place but it would require some tricky piloting and much more thrusters. Would be excellent vs much larger capital ships though.

Teg

dieaready The idea is the tri armor is shot off BEFORE the reactor blows, so the AOE that is actually hitting the ship has no reduction. Though 15k per mine is going to be worse then credits spent on weapons etc. and a reactor core in use is better placed behind armor imo. Cheaper mines with a larger AOE would be a fun weapon to play around with.

dieaready

Teg Yeah, the issue is that it doesn't always work that way. It is too unreliable that is why I'd use shields and then slap on an ion beam cause why not. Anyway it will be interesting how this will play out as time goes on.