So I've been getting one of my friends into Cosmoteer and we've been playing a lot of LAN games. He's new to the game and I usually destroy him, so to make things more fun and interesting I designed a couple of ships to be used in duels. For the first 6 smaller designs I limited myself to staying below 100,000 units and not using shields. While each design is meant to be dueled against itself, every ship class is capable of defeating all the other classes (Except the C-class ship is OP).
A-Class Dueling Ships-Small laser design that's fun for having close-range dogfights.
B-Class Dueling Ships-Nimble design utilizing small cannons. It's important to use it's frontal armor to play defensively and absorb enemy fire.
C-Class Dueling Ships-A missile design with a boost thruster and three PD modules on one side. These are really fun to duel with, using drive by tactics and rotating so that your PD faces incoming fire are both important.
D-Class Dueling Ships-A simple railgun design. Dueling with these feels the most like a traditional gunfight. A well aimed shot down the barrel of your enemies ship can end the duel in a single hit.
E-Class Dueling Ships-Heavy cannon dueling ship. It can be hard to land shots, but it's satisfying when you do.
F-Class Dueling Ships-An ion beam design with a single small laser for support fire. Interestingly this design does fairly well against all the other classes of dueling ships.
Update: I'm back with another three dueling designs. These are much larger at a price limmit of 800,000. These designs should be fought against themselves (the same class) if the duel is going to be fair, however no design is super overpowered against the other (although class-Y is a little overpowered maybe...)
X-Class Dueling Ships-Diagonal broadsider with exceptional armor but fairly week "joints" between segments. This class has long brutal duels.
Y-Class Dueling Ships-Ion beam and missile design with a p.d. "shield" on one side. It also utilizes 2 boost thrusters. Interesting to duel with, has multiple week points to go after, but is also fairly maneuverable.
Z-Class Dueling Ships- Rail-fan and laser triangle combo. Really fun to pilot and is one of my favorite recent designs.
Hope you all like the designs and concept, feel free to duel these ships in MP or LAN games. And if you have any dueling ships of your own please share. Will probably update this post once more in the future with some larger ships.