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[mastahcheese]

Mastahcheese, click the quote.

Yeah, I'm familiar with that one. Now I get it.

[Rolepgeek]

Maybe he was asking which Doctor, as in which generation.

All I can think of, anyway. Or a brain-fart.

[Nahere]

A ramming focused cheap and cheerful ship:

Spoiler: Bottom Deck (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Middle Deck (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Top Deck (click to show/hide)

Out of curiosity, I decided to make a rough model in Sketchup and see what it looked like. I assumed that each square was about one square meter (Which seems a little too small now I look at it) and that each deck was two meters high (a standard room is about 2400mm, so this seemed right considering that extra space is a luxury in most ships, let alone aircraft). I got this:

Spoiler: Warning, crappy mockup within (click to show/hide)

[miauw62]

Don't you have two guns on the side on the middle deck?

[GreatWyrmGold]

I would have guessed each tile being closer to 1.5 or 2 meters across, actually.

[Twi]

While I doubt I'll ever seriously work up the commitment to actually play this, there is something I'm curious about regarding the airship construction.

Aside from redundancy, is there any reason to have more than 1 hover core or 4 lodestones? Can you get different rates of turning/climbing?

[GreatWyrmGold]

For starters, you're not screwed when the enemy hits your only hovercore.

[Twi]

For starters, you're not screwed when the enemy hits your only hovercore.

Aside from redundancy

Redundancy is a cool thing, mind. I, too, enjoy not being screwed. But that's not the point here.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I missed those helpful words.

[Nahere]

Don't you have two guns on the side on the middle deck?

I somehow missed this when modelling it.
Chalk it up to me being distracted while doing it, I guess.

[syvarris]

Just read through the ship construction manual. I think I'll design a extremely heavily armored carrier type ship... tomorrow.

Spoiler: A few questions (click to show/hide)

Can you place eight Lodestones on a ship, (two forward, two back, two left, two right) to give it the ability to shift in any direction?

Could you attach a poison/mine module or a bomb to a shuttle/fighter/drop plane?  If not, could you attach just a single mine/gas canister, which can be deployed?

Can the fighters fire in a 360 degree arc?

How much protection does moving at a high speed really give?

Does the steam cannon automatically charge every turn?  Or is there a switch on it?

How much damage can a ram take?

How many walls can a AP sniper cannon round penetrate in a row?

[Rolepgeek]

For the last question, the answer is 5 before being stopped by the next one.

Unless it's Hardened metal, in which case 0.

[piecewise]

Quick question: Who among you would like to move on to full scale airship testing? Because as far as I'm concerned, I can select our players and divide them into teams right now, if we're ready to try this for reals.

[Dansmithers]

Quick question: Who among you would like to move on to full scale airship testing? Because as far as I'm concerned, I can select our players and divide them into teams right now, if we're ready to try this for reals.

YES!

[Rolepgeek]

I still want to try and create a long range bombardment airship with one side covered by hardened metal.

But designing it on the blueprint looks extremely time-consuming and difficult, especially if you mess up.