NAOP's Library of Warships, or How I Learned To Love The Cube

newageofpower

Major thanks to @Oneye @Your Destiny and @Guy for providing benchmark (usually AI piloted) of effective designs to measure my own ships against. Further thanks to @Equalizer for sharing his ion layout and @Jenwuf for Ion Concentrator/Converger inspiration.

Legend regarding designation tags:[spoiler]Ships are categorized & classified by cost bracket.

Sub-500k Assault Craft; [LAC] & [HAC] for Light/Heavy variations
500k-750k Frigates, [FF]
750k-1m Destroyers, [DD]

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Above 1m are Capital Ships

1.25m-2.5m Cruisers; [CL] / [CR] / [CA] for Light/Standard/Heavy variations
2.5m-3.5m Battlecruisers, [BC]
3.5m-4.5m Battleships, [BB]

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Above 4.5m are Supercapital Ships
4.5m-6.5m Dreadnoughts, [DN]
6.5m+ Superdreadnoughts, [SD][/spoiler]

Supercapitals:

[SD] Crusader
6.791m Credits | 1,718 Crew | 8,035.6t Mass
Highest Difficulty Passed: Oneeye's Supremacy Mk2

CQB Missile/Ion boat, using overthrust to prevent itself from being railfanned. Derived from a pure missile carrier with heavily armored/shielded central citadel (to absorb railgun rounds), testing showed cutting channels for ion beams decreased survivability by perhaps 10% whilst non-trivially increasing drill rate.

Instructions:
This is a CQB optimized ship/"Hugger". When engaging in combat, use X to overthrust through the opponent (after right clicking/waiting to ensure proper alignment) then right-click onto the opponent as contact is made.
To ensure proper Flak Pod deployment, do not issue movement commands until after releasing Flak Pods and turning on their thrusters.

Commands:
Select all subships before issuing hotkey commands!
Press 0 to release Side Flak Pods.
Press 1 to deploy captive sub-ships. Note: some Spinning (deselect side pods, press R to turn the main ship) may be require be required to fully deploy Side Flak Pods.
Press 2 to select central Ion Beams
Press 3 to select external EMP missiles
Press 4 to select Port Missile batteries
Press 5 to select Starboard Missile batteries
Press 6 to select central Missile well

Vulnerabilities:
-Entire missile tower (>45% ship's firepower!) could be detached with detonation of 4th internal missile bay's second missile factory. Both sides.
-Serious protection on frontal aspect only.
-Completely vulnerable rear aspect.
-Can take significant damage from being railfanned.
-Can be Railfanned before contact is made.
-Weak retrothrust, but retreat is for cowards anyways!

Variants:
None

[DN] Raze MkII
4.687m Credits | 660 Crew | 7946.0t Mass
Highest Difficulty Passed: Your Destiny's The Beast

CQB Ion Converger using overthrust to prevent itself from being railfanned. Concentrating 30 ions into a beam waist 25 blocks wide, the Raze proceeds to "hug" the target and erase anything at the point of contact with (as of Patch 0.14.7_RC4) 75,000 DPS, with a damage density of 3000 damage per block per second along the point of contact.

Commands:
Select all subships before issuing hotkey commands!
Press 0 to release Side Flak Pods and Beam Convergence System.
Press 1 to deploy captive sub-ships. Note: some Spinning (deselect side pods, press R to turn the main ship) may be require be required to fully deploy Side Flak Pods.
Use Boost Thrusters to maintain Beam Convergence / ensure side beam pods stay locked into position. The Raze MkII can indefinitely maintain beam subpod boost!
Press 8 to select Ion Beams

Vulnerabilities:
-No missiles - vulnerable to chunks of enemy ship shooting you as they fall off!
-Serious protection on frontal aspect only.
-Completely vulnerable rear aspect.
-Fragile side beam systems.
-Can be Railfanned before contact is made.
-Weak retrothrust, but retreat is for cowards anyways!

Variants:
[DN] Raze MkIII Mod 0
5.062m Credits | 816 Crew | 8157.7t Mass

In development variant, increasing vulnerability to being railfanned and decreasing beam-pod lockup strength in exchange for installing a puny 8 missile launcher battery.

EDIT: Further modern ship classes [Wasp, Onslaught Equalizer, Phaeston, Radiance, Eradica to be posted pending write-ups]

newageofpower

Capital Ships

[BB] Marza
4.002m Credits | 826 Crew | 5912.7t Mass

Long Range Missile/Rail carrier, designed as a jack of all trades and to be especially efficacious in the Support Fire/Counterbattery role. Flaks sweep the missile bays, while the double thick main belt can absorb significant punishment, almost 100% countering non-supercapital ion beams (with a modicum of rotational micro, of course).

Instructions:
This is a multirange ship, but generally prefers to stay at range, or "Kite". When engaging in combat use the Rotate command to align the spinal railguns against opponent's vulnerable missile defenses. Once defenses are suppressed close into missile range and continue using railguns to drill through critical components.

Commands:
Press 2 to select Railguns
Press 4 to select Port Missile Batteries
Press 5 to select Starboard Missile Batteries
Press 6 to select all Missile Systems

Vulnerabilities:
-Central armored citadel is not protected by flaks. Consider using rotate command defensively.
-Completely vulnerable rear aspect!
-Speed/weight inferior to dedicated flankers/orbiters, main battery inferior to dedicated fort-type ships.
-It's own flaks are vulnerable to being sniped by an enemy railgun carrier!

Cainesy

I am liking these designs, and they look cool. I have a few large ships that I have made and have used similar designs from these such as the flak pods, they work so well.