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culanns_hound

Nice ship, hard to beat even with equal designs in terms of cost. Did you built this from the scratch or modified a ship with Ion-Beam-emitters?

nop

Also a great ship! Hard fighter! Its mainly a cannon-wall, but i think you kinda need to combine the Railguns with other Weapons to get something efficient..
Im still testing around with those Railguns. Cool weapons, but needs ammo, lot of crew, lot of power and they need to be very well protected (shielded). So there is really a bunch of things to do, even more than with the emitters, to get them in god use. And i tink you cant really let a ship run with only these weapons.

    Here's the Railgun ship I made that I'm most happy about. It's 1.2M.
    image https://i.imgur.com/FOdmfYd.png

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    octo that pfp

      Wobbegong

      I built it from scratch since it is easier for me to do than to retrofit an older design. Unfortunately it still has a lot of flaws that I need to work out with the defenses and it's speed

        Wobbegong
        image https://i.imgur.com/KbVVQYR.png
        The Devolver

        image https://i.imgur.com/OJFbVeR.png
        Mini Devolver

        image https://i.imgur.com/WSzp4PM.png
        The Destroyer Blade

        With backup missile launchers, point defense and armor out the wazoo, and a whopping 1,010% damage boost, I humbly present the

        BASTARD'S RAIL

        image https://i.imgur.com/oAr8xU7.png

        image https://i.imgur.com/6vTjLqc.png
        So, I have finally finished my first railgun ship. There are no mods so it isn't the longest railgun but it is a pretty decent one. And since it was able to defeat my one ship that I had not been able to beat before by gutting the middle I named this the Ship Breaker. I still need to do a few tweaks to it to make it a little more sturdy but I am happy with it so far

        ImNotLaffng So, I decided to test out your ship and there is a glaring flaw in your design. Your railguns are way too exposed. When I tested your ship against one I made that costs about the same the railguns were taken out almost immediately which lead to your ships destruction.

        image https://i.imgur.com/xWQoC1M.png
        This was the ship I threw together.

        So, I made one change to your ship and it was able to destroy mine.
        image https://i.imgur.com/GIgSlKw.png
        That section of armor blocks in the middle made it much harder for the railguns to be taken out which let your ship do a lot more damage since it has two railguns while mine only had the one

        culanns_hound Thanks for the redesign, I designed it with more stuff in the middle and in deleting it I didn't substitute it. I was also designing it before rail guns penetrated shields.

          gearshift welcome back!

            mystery_player ez kill, just get a fast ship

            Lads and gents, I present to you, the ultimate glass cannon, completely vanilla and utterly useless...

            X.
            image https://i.imgur.com/GyZa8g2.png

            Wobbegong I got dis

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

            Wobbegong
            Railgun ships!:
            image https://i.imgur.com/d71WeDY.png
            standard MK3 Dreadnought class
            a large sized ship made to be an all purpose railgun carrier
            pros:
            +armour fins to stop Railgun penetration reaching engines
            +side shields
            +quite decent frontal shields
            +quite powerful rails for its size

            Cons:
            -only two missile racks as extra armament
            -If one Railgun blows up so does the other (sometimes, im not quite sure)
            -only one command room

            image https://i.imgur.com/oMzSfRd.png
            Modified MK3 designated Dreadnought MK3-B
            A modified MK3, altered to be practically invunerable to small rails from the front
            it cannot easily be insta killed by Indifference's X railgun.

            Pros:
            +highly shielded front
            +retains some side shielding
            +lighter than standard MK3
            +electrobolts to disrupt shields for rails to pass

            Cons:
            -apsolutely no secondary armarment
            -shielding can chain explode
            -shields usless at an angle

            image https://i.imgur.com/QqdnN03.png
            A small railgun defence platform
            usage:
            move it to location you need it
            press 1 to select the four explosives (or manually select)
            detonate them, then tell the ship to rotate so the side with the Red arrows (top)
            is facing towards the small red dot on the bottom right
            Repeat that a couple times every now and then
            and bam! spinning Railguns!

            Pros:
            +IT SPINS
            +good shields
            +can recharge while spinning
            +better fire rate, as fast as it spins

            Cons:
            -single use
            -weak rails
            -cannot aim properly

            now... i know it isnt below 1 Mil... but still:
            image https://i.imgur.com/V4SiYDd.png
            what happens when you improve the MK3 for hours and hours
            A huge, armed and armoured behemoth

            Pros:
            +8 Rails
            +2 very high power rails
            +2 command bridges
            +lots of missiles
            +decent front shields
            +quite manuverable for its size
            +front PD arrays

            Cons:
            -awful exposed Missile factories
            -lack of side PD
            -less turn speed
            -slow to come to a stop or reverse

            Edit: found better way to spin things:

            image https://i.imgur.com/NOeIoyG.png
            detonate explosive holding armour peice by center,
            target it
            profit!?

            this works also to make it not single use any more!