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My best is the Drifter - a $500k destroyer with extreme mobility, light firepower, and moderate shielding. It focuses on dodging incoming fire rather than absorbing it, and on delivering precise damage to critical areas.

I'm confident that it can beat 95% of ships in its price range with good piloting. It can also punch well above its weight. For example, it can beat most of the built-in vanguards. The only one it has trouble with is the Crescent Wrath. As long as the Drifter can outmaneuver the enemy, it can kill it, eventually. The scariest I've killed was some guy's $6m ship with 8 giant rails.

Alone, the Drifter is powerful, but as part of a fleet it serves as a quick-response escort for valuable ships and as a flanker to get behind enemies and disable them. Ignore the Drifter and it'll stab you in the back.

The main counter to the Drifter is mass missile fire. It can dodge any amount of missile fire indefinitely, but it can't dodge it all and attack at the same time. It's also vulnerable to ridiculous amounts of small laser/EB fire. Or to anything it doesn't see coming on its flanks; it takes a lot of micro, and a big mistake can mean instant death. For this reason it's best used in small-scale battles of less than $3m fielded, where your attention isn't divided between many ships.

I am quite proud of the paint on this one:

(sorry for necropost, couldn't find any newer threads like this)

Well, my capital ships are my largest and most powerful creations, it's only fair that they all get featured.

My Advancer Superdreadnought (and Starkiller variant.)

My Federation Dreadnought (and carrier variant.)

My Omega Gen. 1 Fleet Carrier (it has multiple variants.)

My Rebel Superdreadnought (comes with 7 fighters!)

My RMMF Grand Admiral's Yacht.
And finally, the largest ship in pure dimensions...

My Omega Gen. 2 Superdreadnought (with 300+ turbolasers!)

My Federation Dreadnought, Rebel Superdreadnought and RMMF Grand Admiral's Yacht are all vanilla.

Glad this got necroposted, I've gotten a lot better since my last post here.

The Catfish

XHC-019 Baltimore

Morsam-pattern Seraph class Interceptor

This is my latest. My fleet really needed a standard 1m cruiser. I've never built a cannon wall, so I learned from how Cosmopyr and Saris do theirs. It's not actually 100% finished yet; the two HE missile launchers are placeholders for when EMPs come out, and I might end up adding more PD and replacing a couple cannons with flak turrets.

Cosmopyr Glad this got necroposted, I've gotten a lot better since my last post here.

Nice. Your new cannon wall is a lot more compact and neat, with more comprehensive shielding for the turret clusters.

Why have you decided to decompartmentalize? Will those corridors not lead to crew wasting time walking long distances? Of course that will be fixed in 0.14.5 with the new crew behaviors.

I also want to point out something that I think would benefit you: if you place your lateral thrusters closer to the center of mass (move them forward about 6 tiles) you can get much more lateral velocity.

Cosmopyr thrust layout of the Nautilus

Does anyone have a download of the Nautilus, or had Saris not provided it? I would ask him, but I don't see him on the discord and I don't want to necro either of his two discussions. I'd really like to get a closer look.

not the most proud...but still happy with it