Archatun-Class Destroyer

ComradeShiba

Well if you said you did not follow the rules, i did not count that...

LazerBreath

ComradeShiba Can't use diags, can't use broadsides, can't use walls, seems you have a lot of rules concerning "beating" your destroyer. Why even bother then? All is fair in love and war...

RedAndCosmoteer

ComradeShiba You did say "Beat your ship"

ComradeShiba

New challenge :

Beat the ship without using a diag

RedAndCosmoteer

ComradeShiba without using a broadsider

laughs in diagonal

ComradeShiba

RedAndCosmoteer

I had a stroke 😐

RedAndCosmoteer

ComradeShiba

Pyrrhic? Victory!

image https://i.imgur.com/C6UN8Fg.jpg
The only thing I did to ensure my victory was to completely redesign your ship!

Granted, I took 300k in damage, however your ship was...

there are lots of crew but no reactors and control room on your ship so it's a win for me.

Don't mind the missing front, it's a feature xD

Yes, I played on normal AI.

image https://i.imgur.com/0hNlczZ.png

ComradeShiba

RedAndCosmoteer

HEROIC VICTORY!!!

actually, no...

PAINFUL CHEAT!

RedAndCosmoteer

ComradeShiba Painful cheat lmao

Don't mind the graphics for the reactors and crew modules, that's just me using kroom's forge. everything else is vanilla

ComradeShiba

RedAndCosmoteer

Yu redesign my ship? NANI!

proceeds to shoot @RedAndCosmoteer with a 19th century weapon, inflicting heavy wounds and almost killing him

RedAndCosmoteer

ComradeShiba b-but i--i have a las...

shoots your head with a laser gun and then dies

ComradeShiba

RedAndCosmoteer

The laser doesn't kill me since it's the 19th century

RedAndCosmoteer

ComradeShiba oh shit

uses musket with rlly gud aim and minie ball

ComradeShiba

RedAndCosmoteer

Uses the 19th century napoleonic army to just make that musket fck off

Astrum

LazerBreath This. You can’t keep saying “oh, that beat it? Then you can’t use that!”. At least not if you want to actually see if your ship is good, which it really isn’t (but it could be improved).

ComradeShiba

LazerBreath

When did i say you can't USE BROADSIDERS?

LazerBreath

ComradeShiba ...I guess I was expecting that next...

Astrum That Septum is a monster! I have to do some work on my main battle carrier, but I'm getting closer to beating that thing with a carrier. The Septum is very fast for its spread! I'm coming upon the realization if everything is compartmentalized, why not just have multiple CR's and engines for each?... other than cost really...

image https://i.imgur.com/JpV2vH5.png

image https://i.imgur.com/LAoYZV6.png

Fort_Master_Gustav

ComradeShiba I'd give this ship a 3.

LazerBreath

Septum Class Destroyer... is a beast!

Newer Ship Destroyer, didn't put up as good as a fight as Theodore's original.
image https://i.imgur.com/CE8CpRL.png

Battlemaster II, about the same as Theodore's original out come... might go either way...
image https://i.imgur.com/DWlVqn9.png

Septum Class Destoyer V5, no contest... gg 😛
image https://i.imgur.com/j1C5KEF.png

Astrum

ComradeShiba Well, you didn't say anything about missiles, so here ya go: my Terrible missile... thing I built as a test ship.

image https://i.imgur.com/Qu2ao5f.png

It costs a little under 1 milion credits (about 925,000 ish)

Aftermath:

image https://i.imgur.com/tjSJ1ZN.jpg

In before "no missile spam as a new challenge!"

EDIT 2: My very old Solar Class Cruiser won.

Sorta weird fight, the AI piloted my ship quite oddly, using it like a swinging missile cruiser and only using the railguns sometimes. Still, here's the design: (Price is around 1.1 or 1.2 million ish)

image https://i.imgur.com/cm0AoTd.png

Aftermath:
image https://i.imgur.com/waxlYeW.jpg

~~And my Gale Class won which is only 500k! (It was able to keep out of range of everything but the missiles and lasers, and then just picked your ship apart at range. )~~

Here's the ship design:

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

Aftermath:
image https://i.imgur.com/8fxCCHI.jpg ~~

It should be clear to you now that you really need to redesign your ship... (There's plenty of guides, and you can get help at the building academy thread...)

EDIT 3: Can't seem to replicate that Gale class victory again, so take that with a grain of salt. I will continue to test in the meantime

EDIT 4:

Made a bad broadsider for fun (haven't made one in a long time)

Cost: 1.2 million ish credits
image https://i.imgur.com/Cekqvc0.png

It won with fairly little issue. It just took a while.

Aftermath:

image https://i.imgur.com/AJQJu5t.jpg

I think we can safely say that your ship needs an upgrade...

This could help you: https://forum.cosmoteer.net/d/7783-cosmoteer-ultimate-ship-design-and-part-guide

Astrum

LazerBreath Aww, glad you're finding a use out of it!

It's my current best ship (or at least most refined and best for it's cost. I have some big giant ships that are horrifically designed but are "stronger"), but I'm aware of some issues with it (Missiles will tear it to absolute shreds), and am in fact currently working on a more expensive 1.5 million diagonal triangle design.

One of the earlier variations was in fact much faster, having more engines, but they weren't powered super efficiently, and made the design much more expensive (this is a strict 1 million credit design).

As for your question about compartmentalization, the main reason to not add control rooms and engines to each module is, as you stated, cost. I couldn't afford to add more control rooms without drastically upping the cost of the ship. Other than that, it's not a terrible idea, and adding more control rooms is pretty much always a good thing.

EDIT: BTW, I love carriers, so I think your ship is pretty cool.

EDIT 2: Flanking is also a weakness of this design, as all of it's firepower if forward/side facing, and it really can't do anything if something gets behind those engines (which in themselves are sorta exposed...)